1. Team Memphis Elite
8th Grade Team
2013 SPRING TRYOUT
February 27 6:30-8:30 Final
Tryouts Contact Coach Pattie Gardner at 901-569-9063 to
register for tryouts and/or with any questions.
Evangelical Christian Legacy
Center (HS Gym)
2013 Schedule
Date Tournament/Event
Early March Practice 3 times a week (days) for 1st 3 weeks
thru early May Schilling Farms Middle School
Will drop to two practices per week when we have games beginning around 3/22.
There will also be a weekly fundamentals clinic conducted by Drills-N-Skills, Inc.
on Wednesdays from 3-5:15 at ECS throughout the season (small fee).
2 Weekends
MAYB/YBOA Tourneys-Nashville, Memphis, W. Memphis or Jackson, TN
mid March to
(Will select 1 to 2 of these based on everyone’s conflicts)
mid April
Showtime Shootout - Murfreesboro, TN
Mar 29-31
April 19-21 TN AAU State Qualifier Tourney - Memphis
May 4-5 PSB May Day Challenge – Suwanee, GA or a local tourney
8th Grade AAU State Tournament
May 17-19
TN A-Game Sports Complex - Franklin, TN
June Break to allow girls to be with their respective High School teams for camps
Based on how team does at AAU State, consider:
7/8–7/13 AAU 8th Grade Nationals Orlando, FL or
July 7/10-7/13 Battle in the Boro Murfreesboro, TN or
7/22-7/25 Basketball on the Bayou New Orleans, LA
Coach Pattie Gardner - is well known in the Memphis basketball community as she has coached at Schilling Farms Middle
School for the past 7 years. She has taken a losing program and turned into one of the top middle school programs to play for.
She has 100% success rate for girls that tryout for their perspective high schools. She has won the West-TN Sectionals, the
MAM Christmas tournament, the MLK Thanksgiving tournaments 2 times, District for the last five years straight and County 2
times. Her average record is 25-2 year after year. She also has personally played the game in college and overseas for 35 years
and still does on local women’s leagues. She attended St. Edward’s University on a full basketball scholarship 1987-1991 and
played overseas for Hungry and several tour teams. She led her college team to 3 straight years of NAIA tournaments bids, first
in school history. Her passion is kids and that is what keeps her coaching her strength of actually teaching the game to seeing
the kids implement them and grow as players is her greatest achievement. She also loves each of the girls as they where her
own and will guide them in life lessons and doing the right thing. She believes that sports are great way to be a role model for
the girls both as a female and as a female athlete. She has 2 biological kids Sean 20 a sophomore at Motlow State Community
College an all-star JUCO contender and has signed with Arkansas State on a full basketball scholarship fro the 2013-2015 and
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Shaela 14 an 8 grader that has played from me at Schilling Farms. I also am in the process of adopting one of my son’s friends
from his High school summer team Charles 20 and he is also at Motlow Community College a red shirt freshmen. She can be
contacted at agardne3@comcast.net or 901-569-9063.