Cd’A Summer Shootout getting big — 84 teams expected in town for basketball tourney running Friday through Sunday

COEUR d’ALENE — A total of 84 teams from all over the Pacific Northwest — and even some from Canada — are expected in town this weekend for the fourth annual Coeur d’Alene Summer Shootout basketball tournament. 

The tourney is scheduled to run Friday through Sunday, with games starting at 9 a.m. each day. 

“Last year we had 35 teams,” tournament co-director Jon Adams, the Coeur d’Alene High boys basketball coach, said last week.  

In previous years, the tourney consisted solely of high school-age teams. 

This year’s event has been expanded to include divisions for sixth, seventh and eighth grade boys, as well as high school and junior varsity girls. Some club teams are also included in the high school divisions. 

Seven courts throughout the city will be used — two at Coeur d’Alene High, two at Canfield Middle School, two at North Idaho College (Christianson Gym and the student rec center court), and one at Dalton Elementary. 

Adams said teams from Canada, western Washington, Oregon, Montana, North Idaho and southern Idaho are entered. Sponsoring businesses are offering discounts and other perks to players and their families. Food trucks will be parked at Coeur d’Alene High, Adams said. 

“A lot of them are turning it into a vacation,” he said of the visiting teams and their families. “I think they are seeing this more of an event.” 

The tourneys will consist of pool play on Friday and Saturday, and bracket play on Sunday. 

“I always wanted to do this when i got here, have a big summer tournament,” said Adams, a 1991 CHS grad who returned four years ago to coach his alma mater. “Hopefully we can give them a good experience and they get to play competitive teams they don’t normally play.” 

Arnold Brown, a Coeur d’Alene High assistant boys coach, is the other co-director. Brown, who formerly coached at Shadle Park, used to run a big tournament in Spokane and Medical Lake for some 15 years.  

“When the pandemic hit, he said 'We can’t do it here,’ and I said ‘Let’s do it here,’” Adams said. “He always wanted to do it here (in Coeur d’Alene).

“I just think it's such a cool spectacle for the community,” he said. 

Admission is $10 for a day pass, or $20 for a tournament pass. Admission must be purchased at Coeur d’Alene High, but the pass can be used at all seven locations. 

Also, schedules will be posted at Coeur d’Alene High. 

Adams said his Coeur d'Alene Varsity Blue boys team is scheduled for pool play games Friday at 7 p.m. (vs. Marysville at Viking Court), and 9 p.m. (vs. Oregon City at Viking Court), and Saturday at 9 a.m. (vs. Sunnyside at NIC), 1 p.m. (vs. Selah at NIC) and 6 p.m. (vs. West Valley of Yakima at Viking Court).

Information: cdasummershootout.com