Flow Basketball Academy

We enthusiastically recommend Flow Academy and Korie Hlede in particular. Korie is a rare and special person in the world of AAU basketball; who cares about the girls’ holistic development. Korie helped turn our soccer playing daughter, Cate, into a D1 basketball player in 2 years by practicing the very principles that are fundamental to the Flow Academy approach after another well regarded AAU program told us Cate would be lucky to play D3 basketball. Korie accomplished this by focusing on our daughter’s fundamental skill development in the context of the game environment. She built her confidence with positive and immediate feedback and as important she has been and continues to be a mentor to Cate on and off the court. As a result we enrolled two more daughters in the Academy and continue to be big supporters. In addition to the steady growth in their individual basketball skill and acumen, the Academy’s positive atmosphere and focus on team play (something sorely lacking in many AAU programs) has resulted in their making great friendships with their teammates.

I have three daughters – all different levels and personality types – and they all absolutely love Flow and have improved their games tremendously. We have spent a lot of time in and are quite familiar with the girls’ «basketball circuit» and can honestly say that Flow is unique insofar as its holistic approach to the game. Korie and her staff implement the «Flow philosophy» wherein fundamentals are stressed and all girls play all aspects of the game. EVERYONE handles the ball and EVERYONE rebounds and plays defense, which ensures overall understanding of the game and the ever-​so-​important basketball IQ. The girls are encouraged, moreover, to implement during games what they learn in practice and training. Players are rewarded, not criticized, for these efforts, underscoring the Flow belief that skills can only be mastered by trying them out in competition at game speed. We are thrilled with Flow and cannot praise the program enough.

I have 3 daughters who have all played on Flow teams at one time or another. Our experience has been very positive. Korie, Tai, and Rashida are amazing coaches who really work with their players on fundamentals, skills, and their focus on the court. 2 of my 3 girls played in high school, with the next one well on her way. Flow is a great organization supporting girls and helping them to achieve their goals. As a parent I have seen my girls’ «game I.Q.» improve after playing with their Flow teams. My girls have also made great friends on the teams and continue to see those friends on and off the court!

I do not recommend Flow Academy for any aspiring basketball players! My daughter played for the spring travel team and had a negative, life changing experience! She went from being a confident, skilled high school player, who played on the A team of a very competitive, Catholic suburban high school to feeling like a failure in basketball. After a very traumatic, painful experience at an exposure event at the Nike tournament at McCormick Place, she has quit basketball forever. She will no longer play for her high school team. She won’t play in college, as was her lifetime dream. During the halftime break at this tournament, this coach, a former WNBA player and coach, swore a stream of profanity at my 15 year old daughter, berating her for 15 minutes for making them lose the game, in front of the entire team. Only she was singled out for this attack. Her final pep talk works «Now Go Out There And Play». It takes years to make dreams, hers was lost in 15 minutes.