4th: Ed Hyde

5th: Eric Josephson 

6th: Matt Lee

7th: Dave Oatis

8th: Brendan Salach

2025-2026 League Fees

The league fee for the 2025-2026 season will be $300 per team. Please make checks payable to Merrimack Valley Youth Basketball League by November 11, 2025.  Mail them to:

Merrimack Valley Youth Basketball League
12 Haskell Rd.
Andover, MA 01810

Certificates of Insurance are required for each Member of the league (Town/City only needs to submit one for all their teams). Please also make sure that we are listed as the certificate holder down in the bottom left of the sheet as:

Merrimack Valley Youth Basketball league
12 Haskell Rd
Andover, MA 01810

These must be sent to the league President.

Scheduling Meeting 

11/2/25 @ Wilmington HS Cafe 159 Church St Wilmington, MA
8th Grade 8:15am-9:15am
7th Grade 9:15am-10:15am
6th Grade 10:15am-11:15am 
5th Grade 11:15am-12:15pm
4th Grade 12:15pm-1:15pm

SEASON DATES 
Rosters Due 1 week prior to league games

11/9/25: Deadline to submit waiver request
11/9/25 League Fee and Insurance Cert Due
11/14/25 Earliest date to start games
12/7/25 Latest date to start games
3/8/26 Last day of regular season 
3/9/26 - 3/13/26 Play-In games (if needed) 
3/9/26 - 3/10/26 Championship Weekend

Merrimack Valley follows the NFHS and IAABO rules for our league, unless stated in our rules. We are keeping our time and foul formats and not going with the 2023-2024 new standard as discussed. What you may see as a change in your games is where the ball gets put into play in the front court, not including out of bounds plays. There will be four designated spots for throw in. The 28 foot hash marks on the side lines and three feet outside of the lane on the end line.

 Bench decorum will be a point of emphasis for Officials as well as sportsmanship.

Below are the legal basketball numbers for the jerseys:

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,

10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,

20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25,

30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35.

40, 41. 42. 43. 44. 45.

50. 51. 52. 53. 54, 55

Note: you can use either “0” or “00” but not both on the same team.