One on One Basketball Training was started in March of 1991 with the purpose of providing offseason personal basketball training to developing high school players. Since that time, our company has evolved into a comprehensive, year round, basketball instruction and event management company providing skilled instruction to players of all ages and skill levels.
Incorporated in December of 1992, One on One Basketball, Inc. has spent the past eight years effectively carving a niche for itself in the underdeveloped realm of team sport athletic instruction. While in individual sports, such as golf and tennis, focused skills training has long enjoyed favorable acceptance, the concept of accessible, affordable, and skilled individual training in team sports such as basketball is rapidly gaining popularity among players, parents, and coaches. In a recent L.A. Times article Drew Yellen, a California based sports psychologist, states "People have lost confidence in the traditional system [of athletic instruction]. Consequently, they're seeking out people with an expertise at a high level."*
One on One Basketball, Inc. Provides services through five different divisions: AFTER SCHOOL HOOPS®, Skills Classes, League Consulting and Management, Personal Training, and Special Events. Through these and other supplemental activities, we work with approximately 1,000 developing players per week. Our staff, consisting of 4 full time employees and roughly 20 part-time instructors, is committed to providing appropriately challenging and result oriented instruction to each player with whom we work. We have established a reputation of reliability, expertise, and professionalism that has lead to successful partnerships and affiliations with several organizations, including Post Cereal, The Children's Charities Foundation, The President's Council of Physical Fitness, and, most recently, The WNBA.
Currently, our regional scope covers the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area, specifically, Montgomery County in Maryland, Northern Virginia, and Northwest Washington, D.C. Our vision of expanding onto a national scope has recently begun to come to fruition as we have launched programs in Boston, Chicago, and the San Francisco Bay Area. If you are interested in starting a franchise with One on One Basketball in your area, please contact us.
Several factors combine to give us tremendous confidence in the future of One on One Basketball. An ever-expanding market of developing athletes coupled with a growing number of highly qualified instructors provides a favorable climate for continued growth. In addition, we have enjoyed significant increases in operating revenues and profits each year of our existence, testimony to the fact that our philosophy is a concept whose time has surely come. In terms of participation, basketball has recently become the number one team sport in the world.**
One on One Basketball will be there to capitalize on this rapid growth and interest and will support the emergence of a new era of athletic skill development.
*Los Angeles Times, November 14, 1997. Article entitled "ONE ON ONE: Specialized Instructors are no Longer Just for Golf and Tennis Players"
**American Basketball Council Report on Basketball Participation, 1996