{"id":140500,"date":"2025-07-14T12:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=140500"},"modified":"2025-07-14T12:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:04:17","slug":"black-treasurers-investments-bti-takes-aau-girls-team-to-fsu-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=140500","title":{"rendered":"Black Treasurers Investments (BTI) Takes AAU Girls Team To FSU Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0<\/b>The Tampa Bay LakerCats coaching team at FSU Extreme Team Camp.\u00a0 Asst. Coach Jeanelle Burney, President and\u00a0 Head Coach, Jeffrey Amos, Vice President, Yolanda Amos and Asst Coach Debbie Fuller.<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0 <\/b>The Tampa Bay LakerCats and adults, first row, Yolanda Amos, Jeffrey Amos, Mariah Pinkney, Darasyn Bounds, Robin Bailey, Harmonie Charles, and Adiyah Jones. Second row, Jeanelle Burney, Debbie Fuller, Head Coach FSU Women\u2019s Basketball, Brooke Wycoff, London Amos Roberts, Aaliyah Chandler and Julie Smalls.<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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BY MONIQUE STAMPS<\/span><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Black Treasurers Investments (BIT) co-founders Jeffrey, <\/b>and Yolanda Amos<\/b> are continuing to make a huge difference in the lives of the youths they sponsor through their non-profit organization. In addition to their partnership with the Dream Center for court and classroom space, the pair are coaching young girls in basketball.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 BTI\u2019s purpose is youth development, and the methods of development are coaching and teaching young people to prepare them for their future through sports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The organization provides girls and boys between the ages of 7 \u2013 16 with the opportunity to gain experience through the fundamentals of basketball and free tutoring in math and reading.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 BTI sponsors 3 teams, teen girls, 14-and-under boys, and 5th<\/sup> grade-and-under girls.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Amos<\/b>, head coach of the girls\u2019 basketball team, known as the LakerCats, says that annually, they take their teams around to basketball camps.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThis helps with their playing, and also, it helps their attitudes around sportsmanship, while honing their basketball skills\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Recently, the girls team\u00a0\u00a0 traveled to Florida State University to participate in a camp. FSU\u00a0 is a Division 1 school in basketball. The 10 teens\u00a0 learned team building and skills building.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0 The girls\u00a0 were chaperoned by Coach<\/b> Jeff<\/b>, Yolanda<\/b>, the 2 Assistant coaches, and a parent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0Coach Jeff<\/b> emphasized that parents are always invited to travel with the team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cIt was an excellent experience for our LakerCats teen AAU team, sponsored by BIT.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWe are hoping to make this an annual event because of the incredible expertise shown by the coaches and staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Amos<\/b> states that BTI owes a great deal to Hillsborough County Commissioner Gwen Myers<\/b>, who has championed the mission of BTI and sports for young people through funding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cShe is very supportive and has really come through for our kids. She is responsible for us being able to take our kids to Tallahassee.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0 BTI works with kids year-round on a variety of subjects. Earlier in June, BTI held a financial workshop for teens. The workshop was specially designed to be appropriate\u00a0 and was sponsored\u00a0 by Chase Bank.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tutoring in reading and math is also available to kids, along with coaching for personal growth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The program has expanded from 8 students to over 50 students over the past few years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For more information on BTI, or donations of time, money, or effort, please visit https:\/\/www.btigives.org. <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0The Tampa Bay LakerCats coaching team at FSU Extreme Team Camp.\u00a0 Asst. Coach Jeanelle Burney, President and\u00a0 Head Coach, Jeffrey Amos, Vice President, Yolanda Amos and Asst Coach Debbie Fuller. \u00a0 The Tampa Bay LakerCats and adults, first row, Yolanda Amos, Jeffrey Amos, Mariah Pinkney, Darasyn Bounds, Robin Bailey, Harmonie Charles, and Adiyah Jones. Second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140506,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140500\/revisions\/140506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}