Gauchos take 14U National Championship for 2016
Coach Tommy and his Gauchos marched through the AAU Nationals like General Sherman marched through the south. In pool play our Gauchos took on Michigan’s Magnolia Heat (74-45), the Pacific Northwest’s Team Blackout (71-49) and Georgia’s Atlanta Playmakers Elite (77-45).
In Atlanta just as General Sherman sent half his troop to Tennessee and he went onto Savannah, Coach Tommy took his team to Tennessee. First taking on Future Stars Elite (93-64) and Team Penny (64-55) of Tennessee, Coach Tommy circled around to Virginia. There Coach Tommy and his captains RJ, CJ, Demarco, Vaughn and Kelvin took on Team Loaded. In a fierce fight against a long time program rival, they came out victorious (63-52) and proceed to take on the Atlanta Playmakers Elite. Like General Sherman, Coach Tommy destroyed the Atlanta team, leaving no prisoners. The heat was turned up with the Gauchos 2-2-1 press, creating easy baskets. Bombs were launched from out side with captains RJ and DeMarco providing the aerial attack. With inside play from Vaughn and Kelvin providing the vicious ground attack and the slashing moves from CJ the assault was devastating. When the flames cooled down our Gauchos were left standing with the 2016 AAU DI National Championship trophy.
After many years of placing in the top five for this team they have finally reached the mountaintop to place the Gaucho flag as National Champs.