Full Team Sponsor
$2,500 / season
- • Includes the Uniform, MVP and Defensive Player sponsorships
- • Your logo on every jersey, shooting shirt and both award chains
- • Social media shout-outs
- • Logo on the Play Sumner website
Hendersonville, TennesseeYour game
Your game
starts here.
Show up. Put in the work. Take your shot.
About us
More than a team
Play Sumner began with a simple observation: our county has no shortage of kids who love basketball, and not nearly enough places for them to play. Families were driving out of town for court time. Talented players were sitting out because fees were too high. We decided to do something about it.
Today Play Sumner houses youth AAU basketball teams that compete across the region. Our coaches are mentors who teach the game and the habits that outlast it — showing up on time, working when nobody is watching, owning mistakes and lifting up teammates. Wins matter to us. Who our players become matters more.
100% of every dollar stays with the players. As a nonprofit, everything we raise goes directly to our players: sponsorship funds for families who need them, safe places to train and uniforms our athletes are proud to wear. Play Sumner coaches are unpaid volunteers — no donation or sponsorship dollars go to coaching salaries. We are building toward something bigger for Sumner County, and it starts with the players in our gym right now.
2026 Season
Uniform reveal
Home and away kits for the 2026 season. Sponsor a team and your logo rides with our athletes all season long.
What falls under Play Sumner
One mission, four ways to play
AAU Teams
Competitive youth teams playing tournaments around the Nashville area.
Events
Community events like Sumner Shootout, our 4th of July weekend free throw competition.
Directory
Find sports and leagues across Sumner County at playsumner.com.
Facility
Our future 8-court basketball home in Hendersonville, TN.
Sponsorship opportunities
Sponsor a team
Every Play Sumner team has three sponsorships available each season. To be transparent about where the money goes: each tournament we enter costs between $150 and $250, and we try to play at least six tournaments a season. Gym time costs $75 per practice, and jerseys are $115 per player. We never travel more than an hour outside of Nashville for games, and we never do overnight stays.
Uniform Sponsor
$1,000
- • Your logo on every team jersey and shooting shirt
- • Social media shout-outs
- • Logo on the Play Sumner website
MVP of the Game
$750 / season
- • Your logo on our MVP chain, awarded every game
- • Social media shout-outs
- • Logo on the Play Sumner website
Defensive Player of the Game
$750 / season
- • Your logo on our Defensive Player chain, awarded every game
- • Social media shout-outs
- • Logo on the Play Sumner website
Play Sumner is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. All donations are tax deductible. Our coaches are unpaid volunteers, so your sponsorship goes directly to the players.
Programs
Where your support goes
AAU Teams
Boys and girls travel teams competing through the spring and summer circuit under the Play Sumner name. We stay close to home: never more than an hour outside of Nashville, and never any overnight stays.
Skills Training
Small-group skill work focused on fundamentals, basketball IQ and physical development by age group.
Sponsorship Funds
Sponsor dollars that cover team fees, uniforms and travel so cost never decides who gets to play.
Coach Development
Training and background-checked certification for volunteer coaches who mentor our teams year round.
Our teams
Signature event
Sumner Shootout
Play Sumner is proud to be the home of Sumner Shootout, a 4th of July weekend free throw competition open to kids in grades K through 12. Every grade crowns its own champion, plus a Mom and Dad competition. Entry is $20 per shooter, and every dollar helps fund our AAU teams, programs and new facility. Open to everyone, not just Sumner County.
Get in the game
See how the competition works and the awards, then sign up your shooter.
Sign up to shootComing soon
The Play Sumner Facility
Something big is coming to Hendersonville. Stay tuned.
What we stand for
Discipline. Character. Community.
Discipline
Practice habits, academic accountability and effort standards that follow our players off the court and into the classroom.
Character
Coaches are mentors first. We teach respect, resilience and how to lead teammates when the game gets hard.
Community
Sumner County families, schools and churches pulling in the same direction so every kid has a place to belong.
Donate
Put a kid in the game
Play Sumner is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and all donations are tax deductible. One-time gifts and monthly giving both go straight to sponsorship funds, uniforms, tournaments and court time for local athletes. Every dollar stays with the players.
Play Sumner is a nonprofit organization. Contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
$115
Provides a full uniform (jersey, shorts and shooting shirt) for one athlete.
$150
Covers a month of gym and training time.
$300
Sends one player on a full travel season.
$2,500
Funds a team's tournament schedule.
Volunteer
Coach, keep score, run a clinic or help at tournaments. We train and certify every volunteer.
Volunteer with us →Play
Tryout information for the 2026 AAU season for boys and girls teams by age group.
Ask about tryouts →Partner
Schools, churches and rec leagues — let's share gym space and get more kids playing.
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