Best for a Carroll family whose kid wants competitive club basketball, with a developmental on-ramp.

Basketball
Recreational & Competitive
Group classesIndoorSummer campsSession-basedSummer seasonFall season
Info@PrimeHoops.com
Operates out of Carroll Middle School, 1800 Kirkwood Blvd, Southlake, TX 76092
Operates out of (Main)Carroll Middle School, 1800 Kirkwood Blvd, Southlake, TX 76092
Grapevine Fieldhouse3000 Grapevine Mills Pkwy Suite 329, Grapevine, TX 76051
$300 - $675

$300 - $675

  • Fall seasonal registration is a flat per-season fee with an early-bird discount for signing up before the late-August cutoff.
  • A one-time uniform fee applies to first-time players and carries over to future seasons.
  • The Developmental skills division is a lower flat fee, and the club states it will refund the difference to any player who registers for a team but is then placed in Developmental.
  • The summer camp is priced per week.
  • All figures are published on the club's Fall Teams and Summer Camp pages and are paid through the linked registration portals; no phone-quote or member/non-member pricing applies. See the structured price fields for current amounts.
Season dates & schedule · Class schedule

What's offered

A club-basketball program organized in two divisions. Teams practice twice a week in local Carroll ISD school gyms, with the fall evaluation day at Carroll Middle School; practice times and division assignments are published on the Fall Teams page, and exact tournament sites are set week to week. Grade bands run 1st/2nd (playing up into the 2nd-grade division) through 10th for boys and 4th–8th for girls. Separately, a Developmental division has no teams and no tournament play — it is a skills group for younger or newer players working toward a club-team spot. A summer day camp runs four separate weeks in June and July at the Grapevine Fieldhouse in Grapevine, open to grades 2–9 at all skill levels, 9am–2pm daily. Registration for the seasonal program runs through a TeamSnap portal linked from the club's Fall Teams page; camp registers separately.

Fall 2026

Aug 24 – Nov 1

  • Registration opensPastJul 20, 2026
  • Early-bird endsPastAug 21, 2026
  • Evaluation dayPastAug 22, 2026
  • First tournamentSep 12, 2026

Practices

  • 3rd Grade BoysMon, Wed · 5pm–6pm
  • 4th Grade BoysMon, Wed · 6:30pm–7:30pm
  • 5th Grade BoysMon, Wed · 5pm–6:30pm
  • 6th Grade BoysMon, Wed · 6:30pm–8pm
  • 4th–8th Grade GirlsMon, Wed · 5pm–6:30pm
  • 7th Grade BoysTue, Thu · 6:30pm–8pm
  • 8th Grade BoysTue, Thu · 5pm–6:30pm
  • 9th Grade BlackTue, Thu · 5pm–6:30pm
  • 9th Grade GoldTue, Thu · 6:30pm–8pm
  • 10th Grade BoysTue, Thu · 6:30pm–8pm

Games · Weekend tournaments around the DFW area, sorted by skill level (Elite/Competitive/Beginner) — five tournaments between Sept 1 and Nov 1, each with a three-game guarantee, roughly 15 games per season. Exact tournament sites are set week to week.

4 Summer Camps Concluded
  • Jun 15–18ConcludedMon–Thu · 9am–2pm
  • Jun 22–25ConcludedMon–Thu · 9am–2pm
  • Jul 6–9ConcludedMon–Thu · 9am–2pm
  • Jul 27–30ConcludedMon–Thu · 9am–2pm

Cost · $300 per week, grades 2–9, 9am–2pm daily (drop-off from 8:30am, pickup by 2:30pm).

Details

June 15–18, June 22–25, July 6–9, and July 27–30, 2026 · Grapevine Fieldhouse

Our take

Prime Basketball is a Southlake-based youth basketball club that traces its roots to a California AAU program and relocated to Texas, where it now runs team, tournament, and camp basketball for players from roughly 1st through 10th grade (boys through 10th, girls through 8th). It is built around two clearly separate tracks, and which one a family wants matters. The tournament and seasonal teams play a genuinely competitive schedule: players are evaluated, placed by skill level — Elite, Competitive, or Beginner — and enter local tournaments around the DFW area, with games on weekends and a stated multi-game guarantee per event. The Developmental division is the opposite by design — no teams and no tournaments, just a skills group for younger or newer players working toward a club-team spot, at a lower fee the club will honor even if you register for a team and get placed there instead.

The fall program is unusually specific about logistics, which is useful for planning. There is a fixed evaluation day before teams are set, practices happen twice a week grouped by grade on set weeknights, and the season runs on a published calendar from late August to the start of November. Practices are held in local Carroll ISD school gyms; the summer day camp moves to the Grapevine Fieldhouse and opens to all skill levels.

Coaching is the club's clearest calling card. The founder is a California high-school state champion and college player who now runs a varsity high-school program, and the program director played Division I basketball and has built a training career the club describes in national terms. Several other coaches carry college and professional playing backgrounds. For a Southlake family, the honest read is that this is competitive club ball with real intent — the Developmental track and the open-enrollment camp are the softer entry points, not the core of what Prime is.

Local Tips

Prime runs out of local school gyms rather than a facility of its own, so the practical details live on its Fall Teams page and are worth reading before you commit:

  • The season starts with a mandatory evaluation day at Carroll Middle School — players are assessed and then placed on a team, so registering is not the same as being on a roster yet.
  • Practices are twice a week and grouped by grade on fixed weeknights; check which nights your child's grade falls on before you sign up, because the boys' and girls' bands sit on different evenings.
  • Games are weekend tournaments around the DFW area, not weeknight local-league games — plan for Saturday and Sunday travel within the metroplex.
  • There's an early-bird discount for signing up before the late-August cutoff, and first-time players pay a one-time uniform fee that carries into future seasons; the Developmental skills division costs less than a team spot.
  • The summer camp is a separate program in a separate city — it runs several weeks in June and July at the Grapevine Fieldhouse in Grapevine, 9am–2pm, and is open to all skill levels.
  • There is no phone number published anywhere; questions go to Info@PrimeHoops.com or the contact form, and registration runs through a TeamSnap portal linked from the site.
Carroll ISD Connection

The tie here is practical and direct: Prime holds its player evaluations and its twice-weekly practices in Carroll ISD school gyms, with the fall evaluation day at Carroll Middle School. That means a Southlake family's child is very likely practicing in the same district buildings they attend school in, on weeknights during the fall. Prime is an independent club rather than a Carroll ISD program — it is not affiliated with the district's own athletics — but its day-to-day footprint is inside Carroll ISD facilities, which is what makes it a convenient option for Dragons families who would rather not drive far on a school night.

Credentials

Prime was founded by Frank Allocco Jr., a Saint Mary's College player and three-year starter who led Northgate High School to a 1995 California state championship and now serves as head varsity coach at Clayton Valley Charter High School. The program director is Connor Jean, who played Division I basketball at Loyola Marymount University in the WCC and earned an MBA at the University of West Georgia; the club credits him with an extensive private-training career developing college, high-school, and professional players. Other coaches include Deonta Terrell, a 2018 NJCAA national champion and MVP who played at Triton College and Texas A&M–Commerce and professionally overseas; Gregg Brunner, a University of Iowa standout and multiple-time All-Big Ten selection who played in the NBA Summer League and a decade professionally in Europe; and Larry Bush, a former UNLV player. Several coaches emphasize fundamentals-first youth development across the elementary-through-high-school range.

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