The level of play is said to be between that of A and AA minor league teams, and the entertainment is ideal for the entire family. A number of Sharks players are also known as players for UNCW, N.C. State and Old Dominion University. The Sharks play their 25 home games, beginning around Memorial Day, at Legion Stadium on Carolina Beach Road, 2.3 miles south of Market Street in Wilmington. The Family Y hosts leagues for boys and girls ages 6 through 17. The Brunswick County Department conducts an adult men's basketball league with separate spring and fall divisions.
Registration is open to teams only.
A youth basketball league called the Junior Hornets is sponsored by the Charlotte Hornets. It is for children ages 5 through 13 and runs from December through March. Bicycling Touring most of North Carolina's southern coastal plain by bicycle can be as ideal as cycling gets. Roads tend to be lightly trafficked and flat, and most motorists have a fairly good awareness of cyclists. It's a different story within Wilmington city limits, where large protests were mounted in 1997 to raise awareness of the lack of safe roadways, the most glaring example being Market Street.