Thunder Nation, a local youth basketball organization founded by Coseto Phillips, is helping Oxford’s young athletes gain valuable exposure through the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) program.

The program fields teams based on age and gender, with boys competing as the Oxford Thunder and girls as the Lady Thunder. Players range from fifth to eighth grade.

At the end of May, Thunder Nation teams competed in the Hustle Tournament in Columbus and returned home with an impressive collection of wins:

• Fifth Grade Thunder  –  1st Place
• Sixth Grade Thunder  –  1st Place
• Seventh Grade Thunder  –  2nd Place
• Sixth Grade Lady Thunder  –  1st Place