In November 2025, the 2025-2026 season of China Life · NYBO Youth Basketball Open Qingdao Division kicked off with passion..

On the field of competition, Kelly Basketball Club's breakthrough U9 team showed their sharpness, relying on their excellent skills and tenacious fighting spirit to overcome obstacles and achieve a remarkable record of 6 consecutive victories, successfully securing their qualification for the national competition and injecting vitality and hope into the vigorous development of Haiyang's basketball career.

It is reported that the NYBO National Youth Basketball Open is a national level youth basketball IP tournament jointly supported by the Youth Sports Department of the General Administration of Sport of China and the Chinese Basketball Association. It is tailored for young people aged 4 to 16, serving not only as a venue for young players to compete, but also as an important platform for discovering basketball reserves.

As a benchmark force in Haiyang's basketball career, Kelly Basketball Club has always been committed to deepening its basketball career since its establishment in 2004, and has achieved outstanding results and numerous honors in various provincial and municipal competitions. Since 2020, the club has focused on cultivating young basketball talents, relying on the mature teaching system and professional training experience accumulated over the past 20 years. It has successfully delivered many outstanding players to professional courts and CUBA, and has taken firm steps and achieved remarkable results in popularizing basketball, strengthening the physical fitness of young people, and cultivating sportsmanship. It has been awarded the title of "Shandong Youth Basketball Training Base" and has become the "Sports Graduate Teaching Practice Base" of China University of Petroleum (East China). In January 2026, the club will once again cooperate with Ludong University to become a teaching practice base for sports graduate students at Ludong University, marking a new level in the club's youth training system, teaching quality, and platform construction.

Nowadays, Kelly Basketball Club has established a professional training system driven by "top-notch teachers+well-known university resources", which not only provides students with scientific and systematic basketball teaching, but also builds a high-quality growth channel from basketball talents to higher education institutions, helping young people in our city realize their dreams of attending ideal universities with basketball strength, opening up new life tracks, and contributing to the development of sports in our city.