Ages 11-18

PAHAA athletes must be homeschooled (receiving his/her primary education through the home).

The player must be living at home with a parent or guardian.

A player is ineligible if that player has gone through any high school graduation ceremony prior to the season’s first game.

A player is ineligible for play on any team on the September 1st following that player’s 19th birthday.

Since we participate in the regional National Christian Homeschool Championship (NCHC) tournament each year (and sometimes national tournament for older teams), we must also adhere to their eligibility requirements. Click the button below for the NCHC guidelines.

Teams are formed at the beginning of the season based on eligibility rules, age, and tryout results. Boys and girls teams will typically be formed by age considerations.

A mixture of other homeschool organizations, Christian schools, and public schools.

All of our coaches are selected by our Athletic Director and Board of Directors and undergo a routine background check. Each of our coaches are strictly volunteers. Most of them are parents of athletes, but we do have coaches with no athletes playing who just love the kids and the game of basketball. Please contact us and let us know if you’d be interested in coaching one of our teams!

We generally practice twice per week. Once games start, the number of weekly practices will decrease depending on the game schedule for that week. Days of the week and time of day will depend on game and the coaches’ schedules. Again, we strive to set practice schedules as soon as possible. We also try very hard not to hold practices or play games on Wednesday or Sunday.

We try our best to schedule as many games as close to home as possible. But this can be challenging when you live in a rural community. We average about half of our games being played locally. When we do have to travel, we try our best to limit that to no more than 60 minutes away for younger teams, and no more than 90 minutes away for older teams. Exceptions to this would be national tournament.

Registration Fee: $150 with $250 family max for volleyball program.

All registration fees must be paid by the registration deadline.

*NEW!* We are offering our families the option of paying their registration fees via monthly payments instead of in one lump sum. Contact us for details.

Uniforms & Apparel: Uniforms are provided by PAHAA. Warm-up pants, jackets, shoes, and any additional apparel is optional and is not paid for by PAHAA.

Travel expenses: Since we are a competitive sports organization, we will be traveling to some out of town games. (see the question “How far will we be traveling for away games?” for more details about this). Each family will need to budget for travel expenses, including lodging the week-long national tournament. PAHAA always gets a discounted group hotel rate for these trips that our families can choose to take advantage of.

Please Note: It costs much more to participate in most other homeschool athletics organizations. But it’s important to PAHAA that we keep our fees as low as possible for our families. The ONLY way this is possible is for us to require each family to participate in our fundraisers and for each family to commit to volunteering their time throughout the season.

The last thing anybody wants to be doing is fundraising! But since PAHAA is completely volunteer based, and fundraising is a necessity, we try to make it as easy and enjoyable as possible.

We have 3 main fundraisers that we do every year: Serve-A-Thon, Sponsorships, and Fish Fry.

Sponsorships: PAHAA requires each athlete participating in our program to secure a minimum of one sponsorship. Our season sponsorships are $200, and they’re a great way for our organization to do a large amount of fundraising relatively easily. Each sponsoring business (or individual) will have their name included on our season sponsorship banners, their name listed on the back of our t-shirts, be promoted on social media, be recognized on our website, and receive 2 season passes to all of our home games. We do usually provide incentives for this fundraiser, and they vary some from season to season. More information will be given at the Kick-Off Meeting in August.

All registration fees, fundraisers, and money made from admissions and concessions at home games goes towards all of the following expenses that we incur throughout the season:

Uniforms

Equipment & supplies

Gym maintenance fees

Referee fees

Tournament entry fees

Liability insurance

Summer camps

Registration: Each family must fill out our online registration form and pay the annual registration fee. Part of the online registration process includes each family agreeing to abide by our Code of Conduct and signing a liability waiver. It also requires each family to commit to volunteering and fundraising (see below).

Volunteer Commitment: It’s CRUCIAL to our organization that each family volunteers.

Yes! Paris Area Homeschool Athletics Association is an official 501c3 nonprofit organization in the state of Texas.

No. PAHAA is an independent nonprofit organization. We practice and have home games at various local church and school gyms, depending on their availability, but we are not affiliated with any of these entities.