Youth Pathway

The Youth Pathway series is a season-long look at how young players in Britain move from grassroots basketball to the professional game.

Through profiles, data analysis, research and reporting, it explores how different parts of the system fit together and define the opportunities available to young players.

  • Brits in College Through the Years (Men)

    Every year since 2010/11, Hoopsfix has published a Brits in College article tracking which British men are playing in North American college basketball. Each season also includes a list of players who have left North American college basketball, along with a short note on what they did next. By combining those lists across more than…

  • Mapping Access to Basketball in England

    Every weekend across England, junior basketball teams load into cars, pile into minibuses, and travel to play competitive games across the country. Hundreds of fixtures. Dozens of towns and cities. That is national scale. But a club being nearby does not tell you who it serves, or how long it can serve them. What National…

  • Inside the Nottingham Academy Wildcats

    The academy players were running a practice drill for their base man-to-man offence on the sprung wooden court of the Wildcats Arena. The rule was simple: every possession had to start with a wing entry pass. One of the players kept trying to get free on the wing. Her defender denied her every time. Possession…