EVERY LEAGUE · EVERY CAMP · EVERY CLINIC — ONE HOME

East Africa's youth basketball.
One home. One platform.

BYL brings independently-owned leagues, camps, clinics, and trainers together — so families can find and register for exactly what they're looking for, and every member unlocks technology education at Grapevine Academy.

Your league. Your members.
Your brand — amplified.

Run a league, camp, or clinic? BYL gives you the software, the marketing, and the audience to grow — without giving up an inch of what's yours.

THE DIRECTORY

Search. Filter. Register.

Every BYL organization in one searchable list. One family account registers your child to any of them — and every registration includes Grapevine Academy access.

YOUTH BASKETBALL PROGRAMS FOR ALL SKILL LEVELS

SAMPLE LISTINGS — LIVE DIRECTORY LAUNCHES WITH SEASON 1
LEAGUE AGES 10–16
Kigali Hoops Academy
Remera, Kigali

Competitive 5-on-5 league play with refs, standings, and filmed games.

INDEPENDENTLY OWNED · ON BYL Register →
CAMP AGES 6–9
Little Ballers Camp
Remera Youth Centre

First dribbles and fun drills — weekend camps built for total beginners.

INDEPENDENTLY OWNED · ON BYL Register →
CLINIC AGES 14–16
Elite Guard Clinic
Kimironko

Position-specific skills clinics: ball handling, shooting mechanics, IQ.

INDEPENDENTLY OWNED · ON BYL Register →
TRAINER AGES 8–16
Coach Patrick 1-on-1
Nyarutarama

Private and small-group training sessions, personalized development plans.

INDEPENDENTLY OWNED · ON BYL Register →
LEAGUE AGES 10–13
Gisozi Weekend League
Gisozi

Neighborhood Saturday league — every kid plays, every game counts.

INDEPENDENTLY OWNED · ON BYL Register →
CAMP AGES 8–14
Girls Rise Basketball Camp
Kacyiru

Girls-only holiday camps building skills, confidence, and sisterhood.

INDEPENDENTLY OWNED · ON BYL Register →
WHY WE EXIST

"I had to leave to build this. They won't have to."

Mike Abran, Founder — read the full vision →

WHY SPORTS MATTER

Basketball builds the whole child.

Sport is one of the most powerful development tools a child can have — and it does something no classroom can: it fills a room with motivated children twice a week, for reasons that have nothing to do with us.

P

Physically

Strength, coordination, and healthy habits built through structured, age-appropriate training with real coaches.

M

Mentally

Focus, discipline, and resilience. Learning to lose, learning to bounce back, and learning that improvement is earned.

S

Socially

Teamwork, communication, and leadership. Teammates become friends; captains become the community leaders of tomorrow.

GRAPEVINE ACADEMY — THE SECOND DOOR

Basketball gets them in the door. Technology changes what they leave with.

Every child registered through BYL gets exclusive access to Grapevine Academy — where students learn technology, digital marketing, and software, then do real work for real organizations from the first week. The league is the client.

STAGE 01

Capture & Publish

Shooting and editing at games, writing, brand voice, posting rhythm — real content for real programs.

STAGE 02

Build & Automate

Registration funnels, landing pages, follow-up automation, and brand kits on Grapevine Software.

STAGE 03

Acquire & Analyse

Paid social, search, local SEO, and reporting — growing partner enrolment, measurably.

STAGE 04

Product & Agency

Software and game development, client management, and their own accounts to sell. A business they own outright.

FOR FAMILIES

Your child doesn't just study technology — they work inside it. Building real websites, real campaigns, and real games, with skills that reach a client in London or Atlanta from a laptop in Kigali.

FOR ORGANIZERS

Academy students produce your marketing and web work as coursework — and when your existing members enrol in the Academy, you earn commission. "My child is building video games" sells itself.

AFTER BASKETBALL

Nobody ages out.

Every youth sports program has the same ending: one day your child is too old for it. At BYL, that day is a handoff, not an exit. The player who leaves the court walks straight into the next thing — and the next thing is bigger.

THE COURT

Play

Years of leagues, camps, and clinics — and alongside them, Grapevine Academy: real technology and marketing work from the first week.

THE HANDOFF

Keep building

Too old for youth ball? The Academy doesn't care. The work deepens — web development, campaigns, software — with the league as the client.

THE BUSINESS

Own it

Graduates get their own accounts on Grapevine Software and become agency owners — serving the salon, the clinic, the shop down the road. A business they keep.

If your child is 12 today, you already know this question is coming. This is our answer. See how the Academy works →

FOR LEAGUE, CAMP & CLINIC OWNERS

Keep everything that's yours. Gain everything you couldn't build alone.

Your brand, your coaching, your members, your fees — unchanged and directly owned. Every student registered to your organization is exclusively yours. BYL supplies the scale.

01

A platform to run your business

Grapevine Sports™ handles members, attendance, communication, and billing in one place — recurring or one-time payments through the local methods families already use: MTN MoMo, Airtel Money, M-Pesa, Telebirr, and cards.

02

Marketing that actually happens

Social, content, web, graphics, and automation — produced for you, ongoing, by Grapevine Academy students as real coursework.

03

A doorway to a larger audience

Families searching the BYL directory find you. Entry into a multi-country pool attracts sponsors who'd never take a meeting with a fifty-member camp.

04

Earn from the Academy

Offer your existing students technology and digital marketing education — and earn commission on every enrolment. An upsell that sells itself.

05

Ongoing dev & marketing work

Web development, funnels, and campaigns maintained over time by Academy students — your program stops leaking sign-ups.

Become a founding organizer

Season 1 in Kigali. Your programs, delivered through BYL. Ownership stays local — scale comes from the centre.

List your organization →
FEATURED PARTNER EVENTS

Happening across the league.

SAMPLE EVENTS — SEASON 1 TIPS OFF SOON
SAT
10:00
Kigali Hoops Academy — Open Tryouts
Ages 10–13 — BK Arena Outdoor Courts, Remera
LEAGUE
SAT
14:00
Little Ballers — Weekend Skills Camp
Ages 6–9 — Remera Youth Centre
CAMP
SUN
09:00
Elite Guard Clinic with Coach Patrick
Ages 14–16 — Kimironko Community Court
CLINIC
Run a program? BYL promotes and showcases your events to every family on the platform. See what organizers get →
POWERED BY GRAPEVINE SPORTS™
The software behind the whole platform.

Members: registrations, stats, team chat, and payments in one app. Organizers: run your entire business — members, attendance, comms, and automated billing.

BYL My BYL U13
SEASON STATS
11.2
PPG
4.8
AST
3
BADGES
TEAM CHAT
Coach: Practice moved to 4pm Saturday 🏀
SEASON FEES
Paid · Auto-pay on
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App Store ▶ Google Play COMING WITH SEASON 1
THE PLATFORM — GRAPEVINE SPORTS™

One app for the family. One system for the business.

For members & parents

One account for every program: register, see schedules and stats, chat with teammates and coaches, and pay fees — including installments and auto-pay — from your phone.

For organization owners

Your entire operation in one dashboard: members, attendance, communication, and automated recurring billing — configured to how your league, camp, or clinic actually runs.

Yours stays yours

Every student registered to your organization is exclusively yours — your roster, your data, your relationship. BYL connects the platforms; it never owns your members.

Built and improved by our own students

Grapevine Academy students work on the very software that powers the league — the platform gets better every season, from inside the community it serves.

Read the full BYL vision →
WHERE WE PLAY

Starting in Rwanda. Built for East Africa.

The platform launches in Kigali. The playbook is regional: one league, one member platform, eleven countries.

RwandaNOW PLAYING — KIGALI
Kenya · Uganda · TanzaniaCOMING SOON
Burundi · South Sudan · Sudan · Ethiopia · Eritrea · Somalia · DjiboutiCOMING SOON

Run programs in one of these countries? Talk to us about bringing BYL there →

SPONSORS & PARTNERS

One sponsorship. Every league, camp, and clinic in the pool.

BYL aggregates a multi-country youth audience with auditable outcomes — visible at every partner event and measurable in every player's progress.

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FAQ

Questions from parents and organizers.

Does BYL run its own leagues and camps?+

No — BYL unites the independently-owned leagues, camps, clinics, and trainers already serving your community. We're the home where you find them, register, and manage everything in one account. BYL-wide events like all-star games and tournaments may come later.

Who can join?+

Any child in Kigali. Our partner organizations run programs from first-touch camps for the youngest players through competitive leagues for teenagers — filter the directory by age and neighborhood to find the right fit. No experience needed.

Is Grapevine Academy included?+

Every child registered through BYL gets exclusive access to Grapevine Academy — technology, digital marketing, and software education where students do real work from the first week.

I run a league or camp. What does joining BYL cost me?+

You keep your brand, your members, and your fees. BYL provides the software, the marketing, and the audience — talk to us about founding-organizer terms for Season 1.

When is BYL coming to my country?+

We're starting in Rwanda and expanding across East Africa. If you run basketball programs in the region, contact us about bringing BYL to your city.

Give your child the ball and the keyboard.

FAMILIES & PLAYERS
Find and register for a program

Kigali · programs for every age and stage · every registration includes Grapevine Academy access.

Search the directory →
ORGANIZERS
List your organization

Leagues, camps, clinics, trainers — keep what's yours, gain the platform.

Join as an organizer →