Utah Pump N Run Basketball

Summer is generally considered the offseason for basketball fans, but there’s plenty of good basketball being played at AAU tournaments across the country. Utah-based AAU teams have shown well early on, particularly two stacked teams: Utah Pump-N-Run and Utah Reign.

Utah Pump-N-Run is part of the national Double Pump AAU circuit and competes primarily in Double Pump tournaments held in Las Vegas and Southern California. Those tournaments are a huge deal for players and for coaches looking to fill their rosters with the best talent available. As a result, it’s not unusual for the top Utah AAU teams to see top Division 1 coaches at most of the games they play over the summer.

The ties between Utah Pump-N-Run and Utah State University seem to be running deeper and deeper every year. Notable names of guys who have suited up for UPNR at some point include Brian Green, Jaxon Myaer, Jordan Stone, Ben Clifford, David Collette, Quincy Bair and Marcel Davis.

This past weekend UPNR was in action in a big way, and one guy of note on the current roster is USU class of 2013 commit, Jalen Moore. While Moore's name came up numerous times in brief recaps of the tournament, one bit in particular stood out...

In its 27th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with ESPNHS, today announced Jordan Loveridge of West Jordan High School as its 2011-12 Gatorade Utah Boys Basketball Player of the Year. Loveridge is the first Gatorade Utah Boys Basketball Player of the Year to be chosen from West Jordan High School.

The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the court, distinguishes Jordan Loveridge as Utah’s best high school boys basketball player.

We are hosting a tryout for current 8th graders! The Utah Pump-N-Run 8th grade team will be traveling to tournaments throughout the spring and summer. Join us for a tryout session Thursday, March 15th at Salt Lake Community College beginning at 6:00 pm and ending around 7:30.

Email Coach Landon Cosby at lcosby@utahpumpnrun.org to RSVP.

We'll see you there.

We are hosting a tryout to compile two 5th grade teams, both of which will do some traveling to tournaments throughout the spring and summer. Join us for a tryout session Tuesday, March 6th at Salt Lake Community College beginning at 5:45 and ending around 7:30.