The goal of the Junior Comet League is to have one team per grade level for both boys and girls each basketball season.  The Junior Comet League understands that because of the size of the Albany School District, this is not always possible to achieve.

The following steps will be performed to determine how grade levels could be combined:

• Grade levels with 8 or more participants will have their own team unless an adjacent grade level has fewer than 5 participants. 
• Grades with 4 or fewer participants MUST combine with either one grade higher or one grade lower.  The Junior Comet League Board will determine the best grade level to combine them with.
• Grade levels with 5 – 7 participants are allowed to either combine with an adjacent grade level or borrow players from the adjacent lower grade. 
  The coaches of the adjacent grades must agree to a rotation schedule so all participants in the lower grades can participate in the same number of tournaments with the borrowing team.

• If two grade levels do not combine teams, and choose to borrow players, they must do so on a rotational basis.  The grade cannot pick and choose who they want to borrow for their tournaments. The team can borrow enough players to create a roster of up to 8 participants for each of their tournaments.