Registration is now open for the Pelham Panthers Basketball Association’s travel and house league programs.

“We are hoping the registrations don’t go up because we are getting to the point where we have too many. We have a waiting list every year,” Pelham Panthers president Brian Bleich said.

The association has grown to the point where it has 400 travel and 400 house league platers registered every year.

“Since we came back from COVID, that is where the numbers have been,” he said. “I think it is because we continued to do some training during COVID.”

Travel teams are offered from Grade 3 to Grade 12, including the Juel and Juel Prep squads. Travel players are registering for tryouts only and there is a $25 tryout fee to offset the association’s costs for holding the tryouts. You must be registered to try out and the dates, times and locations of tryouts will be emailed to all players registered.

It is the first time Pelham has charged a tryout fee.

“We didn’t want to but we found that the costs of everything are going up,” Bleich said. “To run tryouts, I am looking at $10,000.”

The Pelham travel program is bursting at the seams.

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