Young Stars Basketball, Ages 3 to 6
Where kids fall in love with basketball. Hoops their size, coaches trained for this exact age, and everything taught through games they love. Built around one outcome: they can't wait to come back.
Times, cost, and sign-up in one place
Two programs, both 10 weeks on hoops their size at 661 Solomon Cres. Ages 3-4 is $150, 30 minutes a week, max 12 kids, and parents can join on the floor if needed. Ages 5-6 is $250, a full hour a week, max 20 kids. Pick the day that fits and register in a couple of minutes.
Monday Fall Young Stars · Ages 3-4
Wednesday Fall Young Stars · Ages 5-6
Thursday Fall Young Stars · Ages 3-4
Thursday Fall Young Stars · Ages 5-6
Saturday Fall Young Stars · Ages 3-4
Saturday Fall Young Stars · Ages 5-6
Sunday Fall Young Stars · Ages 5-6
What you'll watch happen
At this age the win is not a jump shot. It is a little kid who scores on a hoop built for them, joins a group on their own, and asks you on the drive home when they get to do it again. That is the whole company in miniature: HoopLife exists to build confidence and success through basketball, and this is where it starts.
Ages 3–4
Ages 5–6
Pick their starting point
Both programs run on the same idea: make the game small enough that they succeed, and fun enough that they beg to come back. The difference is how much of it they do on their own.
Ages 3-4
- Their very first experience of sport, built around fun
- Dribbling, shooting, passing and footwork, all through games
- Lowered and mini hoops, so every child actually scores
- Coaches trained specifically for this age
- A small group where every kid is known by name
Ages 5-6
- A real ten-week season that turns a little kid into a little basketball player
- Shooting, dribbling, passing, footwork and defence, taught through games kids love
- Group challenges and friendly competition that build communication
- Lowered and mini hoops built for their size
- Friendships with the same group of kids, week after week
Built for little kids, not shrunk down from big ones
Hoops their size
We are the only gym in the city with hoops lowered for our youngest players. Scoring is what makes a kid fall in love with this game, so we make sure they score.
Games, not drills
Nothing at this age should feel like a lesson. Every skill is taught through movement and play, so the learning is invisible and the fun is not.
Coaches trained for this age
Coaching a 4-year-old is its own skill. Our coaches are trained for it, and every kid is known by name.
Regina's #1-rated youth basketball program, 4.9 stars from 152 families, running for a decade in our own facility at 661 Solomon Cres. A lot of the big kids winning games in our leagues today started exactly here, on the mini hoops.
Coached from a written playbook, not off the cuff
The classes are short, playful and built for little bodies, and they sit at the bottom of the same written coaching system as everything at HoopLife. Your three-year-old is not being run through grade-school drills; they are on the first rung of a ladder that is written down all the way to high school, taught by coaches trained on the same playbook and vocabulary.
Off-ball movement
Your kid has the ball for a fraction of the game. We coach the rest of it: cutting, spacing, and getting open, so they matter on every possession.
Defence & communication
Positioning, help defence, closeouts, and talking on the floor. The loudest team usually wins, and we teach kids exactly what to say.
Creating advantages
Screens, handoffs and reads: how to beat a defender with your brain, not just your speed. This is the part most programs never teach.
Shooting form & shot selection
Clean mechanics and footwork, plus the judgment to know a good shot from a bad one. Both halves matter, so we coach both.
And the playbook is only half the promise. HoopLife exists to build confidence and success through basketball. Character, confidence and leadership are coached as deliberately as the jump shot, in every hour we run. The playbook makes them a better player; the coaching makes them believe it.
What a Young Stars class looks like
Questions, answered
Is this real coaching, or supervised drills?
Real coaching. HoopLife runs on a written coaching library: practice plans organized around four training themes (off-ball movement, defence and communication, creating advantages, and shooting), with every drill diagrammed and every coach trained on the same playbook and the same basketball vocabulary. Nothing about the hour is improvised. And the skills are only half of it: character, confidence and leadership are coached just as deliberately, because building confidence and success through basketball is why HoopLife exists.
What age can my child start?
At three. The Ages 3-4 program is built for true first-timers, with classes capped at 12 kids and coaches trained for this exact age. At five, they move up to the Ages 5-6 season, a full hour a week capped at 20.
Do parents join in?
Only if your kid needs you. In the Ages 3-4 classes the coaches run the show and you are welcome on the floor beside them whenever it helps — some kids want a parent close for the first week or two, most run the class on their own. In the Ages 5-6 season, you watch from the sidelines, and the facility has a comfortable viewing area.
My kid is really shy. Will this work for them?
That is exactly who this was built for. Classes are capped at 12 and 20 kids, the coaches are trained for this age, and nobody is forced into anything. Week by week you watch them go from watching to joining.
What should we bring?
Comfortable clothes they can move in, clean indoor shoes, and a water bottle. The balls and hoops are all kid-sized and provided.
When are the classes and how much does it cost?
Ages 3-4 runs Mondays or Thursdays at 4:30 PM and Saturdays at 9:30 AM: $150 for the 10-week term, 30 minutes a week, max 12 per class. Ages 5-6 runs Wednesdays or Thursdays at 5:00 PM, Saturdays at 10:00 AM, or Sundays at 11:00 AM: $250 for the 10-week season, a full hour a week, max 20 per class.
What comes after Young Stars?
Once they hit grade one, the HoopLife League has 3x3 divisions on hoops lowered to their height, plus weekly skills sessions year-round. Kids who start at Young Stars walk into all of it already at home in the gym.
What should they bring?
A labelled basketball, a water bottle, indoor non-marking court shoes and athletic clothing. That is it.
What if the cost is a stretch for us right now?
We never want the cost to be the reason a child misses out on basketball. There is funding support available through BOOST Kids, and we will do what we can to help. Just ask.
Interested in Young Stars?
Leave your name and email and our team will reach out with everything you need to know.
Their first team is waiting
Spots in both programs are capped so every child gets real attention. If your kid is 3 to 6, this is the easiest yes of their childhood.
