Our Basketball Academy was launched in September 2013 to create a centre of excellence. We have three full-time National League Coaches, Strength & Conditioning Coach and Physiotherapist, we are accredited as one of just ten “Basketball Schools” by Basketball England. We are also one of sixteen schools offering the Diploma in Sporting Excellence (DISE) Programme as part of the England Development Programme (EDP).
Our teams compete in the Men’s and Women’s Elite Academy Basketball Leagues. These are the top leagues in the UK for school basketball and we are proud to be one of only sixteen Academies in the UK with this offering. We regularly take students to the States for exposure tournaments, where they will play in front of 400-500 college scouts. Since City of London Basketball Academy launched, in 2013, 70 of our students have earned scholarships at universities including Wake Forest in North Carolina, California’s Santa Clara University, Rider University in New Jersey and Wagner College in New York. Last summer, six CoLA pupils flew to the States to begin athletic scholarships at US universities, continuing our respected record of sending students to America’s elite universities.
Applying to the Basketball academy
All applicants must apply to join COLA Southwark sixth form and tick the Basketball Academy checkbox in the application form.
If you have any questions regarding applying to our Basketball Academy, please email: basketball@cityacademy.co.uk.