Basketball Club Availability

Who We Are

Patriot Sports Club has been supporting young athletes since 2015. We offer a youth basketball program in Liberty, MO, as well as facility rentals to nurture their potential in sports. Since our organization was founded in 2015, we have helped countless kids hone their athletic skills.
Why the Name “Patriot Sports Club”?
The club encourages hard work and sacrifice for the long-term good of our community and country. Our values reflect those of our country’s early founding patriots, who stressed the importance of God, family, freedom, hard work, and community.
This country’s exceptionalism was built upon the individual’s desire to maximize his God-given talent. Our club will honor that accomplishment and graciously work to continue that achievement.
Mission Statement
Patriot Sports Club is a youth organization whose mission is to foster the physical, mental, and emotional development of local community youth through multi-sport training and camaraderie at all levels of age and competition.
Goals
  • Inspire the Importance of Faith, Family, and Citizenship to the Individual and the Community
  • Demonstrate Success Through Preparation and Collaboration
  • Provide Inexpensive Alternative Instruction to Young Athletes
  • Provide a Low-Cost Facility for Youth to Work to Meet Their Personal Goals
  • Allow and Encourage Mentoring of Senior/More Skilled Youth of Younger and/or Less Skilled Youth
More Than Training
Mixing training with a tough curriculum isn’t new. However, adding lightheartedness and a sense of fun is a fresh way to enhance the learning experience. That’s what sets our programs and training apart from others. We know how to bring out the best in basketball, baseball, and softball players, and we do it with honor and hard work.
Building a Competitive Edge
After spending more than 20 years competing and working with youth athletes, we decided to share our experience in coaching and conditioning talents to help younger players. Patriot Sports Club is our name, and providing a place for young athletes to enhance their skills is our passion.
Get to Know the Founding Family
The Willis family are our organization’s founders, and they are a licensed foster care family through Clay County Corner Stones of Care. As of 2021, the nine members of the founding family are:
  • Father Gary Willis
  • Mother Rushelle (Shell) Willis
  • 24-Year-Old Daughter Faith
  • 23-Year-Old Son Brock
  • 13-Year-Old Son Cale
  • 10-Year-Old Son Brady
  • 10-Year-Old Son Aden
  • 7-Year-Old Daughter Brenlee
  • 6-Year-Old Daughter Zoey
Gary Willis
Gary is an IT manager at T-Mobile. He played college baseball, as well as high school basketball and football.
Rushelle
Rushelle is a certified dog trainer. She enjoyed playing youth sports and was a high school/college cheerleader.
Faith
Faith played softball at UMKC and played high school basketball, soccer, and softball. She is currently an electrical engineer for Burns and McDonnell.
Brock
Brock is pursuing a nursing/physical therapy degree at Missouri State. He played on the last two state-finalist Kearney football teams.
The Real Dream Chasers (RDC)
RDC was founded by Ronnie and Alissa Powell with a mission to help youth athletes improve themselves on and off the court. Ronnie and Alissa have been working with youth athletes since they themselves played in college at Missouri Western State University.
Learn More about RDC
Our Mission
Patriot Sports Club enables youth athletes to continue to enjoy the game while improving their abilities through skills practice sessions, workout programs, open gym training, league games, and tournaments.
Group and Individual Programs
Players will be encouraged to participate in group and individual workout programs. As with all Patriot Sports Club teams, players will be encouraged to use the facility free of charge to improve their skills. This will be subject to availability.
What To Expect While Playing for RDC/RDC Patriot
Flexibility is huge for us at RDC Patriot in the off-season. We have over 150 players in the spring and approximately 19 teams or groups. Some players are getting time in the league solely. Others play a little in tournaments and leagues. Others play tournaments strictly. We place kids in these different situations based on skill level and needs of the player based on other Spring/Summer activities. We want to work with you, and we encourage kids to keep up with multiple sports. At the same time, we believe it is paramount that everyone keeps a ball in their hand most of the year if they aspire to play at HS or college level. If you don't, there are dozens of kids that will, and you will be competing with those kids for a spot on the high school team. Nothing replaces hard work and experience.
We will work to get everyone a fair amount of time-based on what we communicate with each player. We do NOT strive to make game time and playing time equally. Playing time is earned. Tournament time is earned. Playing time is earned based on the effort at practice and events as well as skill level. League is for competitive development. We will get you at least a MINIMUM amount of game time. We track games that each kid gets to play. We aim for 4-6 games a month at a minimum. Most will get that number and more.
We are a competitive organization. We always work to get a competitive team on the floor in both league and tournaments (especially tournaments). Because of this, we will always try to have the right mix of size, guard play, and experience at every game. We build our rosters with that in mind. Some kids will get significantly more time solely based on 'competitive need.' I encourage you not to focus on others' game time. Yet, please feel free to discuss YOUR PLAYER'S game time with your direct coach, Gary, Ronnie, or Alissa. You always have the opportunity to come scrimmage in multiple sessions a week. If you are not attending those event sessions and you have an issue with your game time, you can expect us to the point that out.
Conduct at Games
At games, you are representing yourself, your player, and our organization. We are going to run into poor officiating and questionable integrity in some other teams. Always show good sportsmanship, regardless of the outcome. It is important that you show class and integrity in the stands. The coaches will deal with the officiating. We understand the emotion of the game. We recognize cheering, and the occasional comment can be made toward the officials. We expect it to be EXTREMELY LIMITED. We will not tolerate foul language, threats, or name-calling of any officials, players, or event staff. You will not be welcome in the organization if this occurs. If you need to get up and walk out of the gym, please do so. DO NOT PARTICIPATE in any arguments or foul language. You will always be the one most in the wrong if this happens. Thank you for your understanding!