Welcome to the 2025 Vertical Hoops Championships at Mohegan Sun! We are very excited to have nearly 300 teams coming from multiple different states. Please see below for all the information you need to navigate through the weekend.

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THREE-DAY EVENT. TEAMS WILL LIKELY PLAY FRIDAY, AND WE DO NOT TAKE TIME REQUESTS FOR THIS EVENT. NO REFUNDS OR CREDITS WILL BE ISSUED AFTER THE “NO TURN BACK” DATE, WHICH WILL BE EMAILED TO ALL COACHES.

All Coaches and Players Must Be Verified

COACHES CLICK HERE TO BEGIN THE PROCESS (PARENTS DO NOT USE THIS LINK, YOUR COACH WILL SEND YOU AN INVITE)

We’re excited to share that Vertical Hoops now partners with National Sports ID for reliable age and grade verification in our basketball events. This partnership ensures the fairness and integrity of our players, teams, and the tournament itself.

National Sports ID provides a convenient online platform for confirming the age and grade of young athletes, offering official Sports ID Cards. It takes just 10-15 minutes to set up an account, register your child, or form a verified team. Our NSID customer support team is always ready to help you and your players with this easy process.

For an annual fee of $10, you receive a Sports ID card valid for one year from the date of issue. With this verification, your child or team becomes eligible for all Balling at the Beach Tournaments for the next year.

To begin, simply follow the instructions below to create your account, add your child, or establish your team. And remember, live support is always available on the National Sports ID website to assist you and your players.

TEAM & PLAYER HIGHLIGHTS AVAILABLE!!!!

Click Here to Register and Order Team and/or individual player highlights. This is a new feature offered by Sportvisio for Vertical Hoops, utilizing AI and high-quality cameras to provide teams, players, and parents with highlights from the weekend. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION

The Vertical Hoops app can be downloaded in both app stores. The app will provide you with your team’s schedule, standings, bracket information, locations, and updates throughout the weekend. We suggest that all of your parents and coaches download the Vertical Hoops app prior to the weekend.
IMPORTANT. In the app when you click on your team’s schedule you will only see the games currently scheduled, not the “bracket games”. These games will populate on your team’s schedule once standings are finalized in your pool of teams. Please remember everyone plays a minimum of 3 games so if you only see two games on your schedule you know at least one more game will be added once places are established on the app. If you want to gauge possible times of upcoming games use the “bracket” button in the app under your team’s division to see times of bracket games.
Once the schedule is finalized no changes will be made for Sunday games. This is a strict rule made to avoid unseen changes that could negatively impact other teams and result in forfeits.
Home Team Listed on bottom of schedule. Home Team should wear white uniform.
Basketball Size: 28.5 Grades 4-6, 29.5 Grades 7-9
Team attendance is required for all games, including Sunday “consolation” games. Failure to show up will result in your team or possibly your town being banned from next year’s event. We want to ensure that every team plays the maximum number of games possible. If it is completely unavoidable, please let us know well ahead of time that your team cannot play, so we can attempt to find a team for your opponent to play. Teams will not receive a refund if their opponent does not show up.
The Coach’s Check-In will be located in the front lobby before the admissions table. ONLY VERIFIED COACHES WILL BE GIVEN A LANYARD AND WRISTBAND FOR FREE ENTRY. MAXIMUM TWO PER TEAM, NO EXCEPTIONS
Admissions to the event (entire weekend including Friday) is $45 for adults, $30 for seniors, and kids over the age of 10. Wristbands must be worn to gain entry into the event. (In-person purchase only, Credit Cards & Cash)
Parking: Winter Garage is most convenient, but no parking lot is that far away from the Convention Center.
Vertical Customs will be on-site offering custom Championship apparel throughout the weekend right outside the front entrance.
Please remind your coaches and parents that poor language, abusive behavior towards officials, or Vertical Hoops staff will result in removal from the event without a refund. All of our referees are board-certified high school and college officials. They are assigned by NEOS, who will have a table set up for anyone interested in training to become an official in the future.
We will have athletic trainers available throughout the weekend. The trainer table will be located about halfway down the convention center on the left side of the facility against the wall.
During the event your two contacts will be Karim 203-809-4770 and Sekouba 475-467-0964. Jason will not be your contact during the weekend.
Game Rules Click Here