Connecticut's Premier Hoops Development

Connecticut Premier Hoops Development (PHD) was organized as a comprehensive youth basketball program that focuses on various areas in the advancement of players.

Our main focus is guiding and developing athletes to be able to reach their fullest potential. Our program provides focused, intensive training that is essential for improvement while emphasizing the importance of team work, sportsmanship, and safety.

We as a group strive to make every player in the program improve in all facets of the game. We use our experience as players and coaches to break down every aspect of the sport. We use our practices to focus on the team aspect and clinics to work on individual skills. Our primary goal is to get every player in our program physically and mentally ready to make the next step as a player, a student, and an individual.

Along with at least one to two practices a week and a tournament schedule, we will be holding clinics throughout the season. The clinics are orchestrated and run by Joe DeSantis, former college head coach. The clinics are to be station oriented working on individual skill sets using drills the players can use at home on their own. On top of the Joe DeSantis clinics as a program we offer shooting clinics with our state of the art shooting machine which allows players to get a few hundred shots off in an hour.

Our goal is to develop each player into the best athlete and person they can be on and off the court. There is no program in the area that is offering what we do.