Spring basketball tournament

Tournaments are back!

Each semester at Union College a tournament is held. The fall semester tournament is for volleyball and soccer, and the spring semester tournament is for basketball. During this past weekend, Adventist high school basketball teams from all over the country (and beyond) gathered together on campus to compete. The event started on Thursday, Feb. 16 and lasted until the 18th. Games took place at College View Academy, the Thunderdome and Speedway Sports Complex. 

For tournaments, the general rules include eight-minute quarters with stop time and time outs with three full and two 30 seconds. Intermission 60-second break in between quarters one and two and between quarters three and four and five minutes at half time. Overtime will be a four-minute stop time period. If the score is tied after the first overtime period, a second overtime period of one minute will be played. Any overtime period after the first will be one minute each. As for uniform colors, teams on the first schedule wore light uniforms while teams on the second schedule wore dark uniforms.

At the end of the tournament, awards were given based on the votes given by the head coaches of the playing teams. This award is the Union College Christmanship Award (team award). Recipients for this demonstrated qualities such as friendliness, courtesy and graciousness in winning and losing, fair and honest dealing during the competition and overall admirable conduct of everyone associated with the team. The Union College Athletic Committee made the final determination based on their observations and the votes of the coaches. At the same time, an individual award was also presented. The head coach from each team nominated the best player from their team to receive the “All Tournament Award” which was presented at the awards ceremony after the last championship game (one award per team). The schedule and scores for the matches and recorded live streams link can be found on the main Union College website.

High School teams that participated in the tournament are: 

Andrews Academy (Michigan), Northwest Arkansas (Arkansas), Campion Academy (Colorado), College View Academy (Nebraska), Dakota Adventist Academy (North Dakota), Maplewood Academy (Minnesota), Midland Adventist Academy (Kansas), Mile High Academy (Colorado), Sunnydale Adventist Academy (Missouri), Vejlefjordskolen (Denmark).

By: Robert Tengker