Mobile Native Brings AAU Basketball To The Gulf Coast

With support from Under Armour, Reggie Wilcox, former McGill-Toolen Catholic High School basketball star, founded Elite Academy, an Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) basketball program, in 2012. Recently, Wilcox partnered with Quincy James, director of Elite Academy Gulf Coast, to bring that program to the Mobile area, according to WKRG. “We never ever had an AAU program on a national level to come to the City of Mobile,” Wilcox explained. “When I was younger, we just heard about it. We heard about the Atlanta Celtics and those types of programs.” The program also has a presence in Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and California.