JOHN GIAMMARCO, Owner of Pittsburgh Basketball Club

The Total Tutor Neil Haley and Coach Karen Hall will interview JOHN GIAMMARCO, Owner of Pittsburgh Basketball Club.

The Pittsburgh Basketball Club was founded by and solely owned and operated by John Giammarco. As an assistant basketball coach at Sto-Rox High School, John found the need to develop a summer program to insure that the young talent in the program maintained the discipline that they developed in school while participating on the basketball team throughout the summer months. Originally founded in 1994, 8 teams participated in the 1st league. Soon, other schools and communities seeking to maintain the same discipline for their players wanted to participate in the program.

By the year 2000, seven additional sites and three additional age groups were added to the program. What started as just 8 teams has now grown to close to 90 teams. The sites were dispersed throughout Western Pennsylvania to insure that the leagues and tournaments were held within general proximity of virtually every school and players community.

Currently, the Pittsburgh Basketball Club is one of the regions most highly respected programs and is considered one of the largest youth basketball programs in the United States with input in both regional and national programming for our area’s youth of all ages.

In addition to the many local programs, the Pittsburgh Basketball Club is an ardent supporter of basketball related charitable causes such as Coaches vs. Cancer and the American Heart Association.