Louisiana HoopFest

Mission Statement

Our mission is to ensure that all youth, regardless of backgrounds or economic position, can benefit from the positive aspects of being a young athlete. The game of basketball instills positive messaging and characteristics in participants through emphasizing such concepts as setting and achieving goals, teamwork, determination, leadership, dealing positively with diversity and much more. It creates a positive atmosphere with strong role models that allow youths an alternative to violence, gangs and other negative and self-destructive activities. Most importantly, the game helps develop skills in participants that allow them to go to college on scholarship. This creates opportunities that otherwise would not be available to them.