Elevate Hoops Indy

It’s bigger than

BASKETBALL

Elevate Hoops helps you improve your skills and connect with other players who love the game. Join us and take your game to the next level!

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About Elevate Hoops

Elevate Hoops exists to facilitate growth through basketball challenges for Indianapolis youth. Student-athletes spend time with coaches, Elevate staff, and community volunteers, experiencing both micro successes and failures. They learn to rely on peers and adults, and discover the posture life that is essential for future success.

Elevate Hoops allows our students to build a sense of community in their life away from school and home, develop self-confidence, and be encouraged to cultivate a positive mindset that reminds them of their intrinsic value.

The platform is bigger than basketball and builds life-changing relationships and opportunities for our student-athletes.

Why sports and adventure programs through elevate

Explore new opportunities and places

Sports and Adventure mentoring allows students to experience many more 'firsts' in their lives that they may never have the opportunity to experience otherwise. This can occur through a variety of boundary-breaking activities and experiences in the Elevate Hoops programming, enabling students not only to read about the environment but also to interact with it through all their senses.

Expand an individual's boundaries

Sports and Adventure mentoring allows students to build a sense of community in their life away from school and home. Through collaborations with other youth serving partners, students and young adults can have their community and career boundaries expanded.

Experience new paradigms

Sports and Adventure mentoring is designed to break down toxic, defeating self-talk and remind our youth of their intrinsic value. Elevate Hoops integrates growth-challenge-centered relationships that focus on seven areas of a whole person's life in a hands-on, experiential approach, as seen in our Elevate Sports & Adventure mentoring.

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Meet our coaches

Elijah Story

Elevate Hoops Coach

Coach Elijah works with our Elevate Hoops high school travel basketball players. He grew up in the near eastside of Indianapolis, graduating from Ball State University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Management. Elijah played school and club basketball growing up in Indianapolis, graduating from Covenant Christian High School in 2019. He has also coached school and club basketball since graduating high school, and is the current JV Boys Coach for Horizon Christian High School.

Aaron Story

Elevate Indy CEO

Coach Aaron has served as Elevates’ President & CEO since January of 2018. He is an active foster parent, basketball coach, community developer, and near eastside resident for over 16 years. In his role with Elevate, Aaron provides leadership and direction to the staff and board, cultivating like-minded partnerships to keep Elevate Indy as a youth-centered organization.

Coach Aaron has coached boys and girls basketball in the community for over 10 years in a variety of setting including club basketball, church leagues, the YMCA, and area middle and high schools. He is in 4th year as Varsity Head Coach of Purdue Poly High School- Englewood campus and supports the Elevate Hoops clinics, trainings and teams.

Coach Aaron believes basketball is a great platform for mentoring, youth development, violence prevention and, ultimately, advancing young men and women further into the finding the best version of themselves.

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A special thanks to our partners and sponsors