Earnest Academy

05/15/2025

Academy studs

01/29/2025

CHECK IT OUT: Minot High junior Leelee Bell scores 2,000th point of her prep girls basketball career on January 28

NDHSAA NOW NEWS STORY: https://ndhsaanow.com/news/2087/check-it-out

11/20/2024

There will be NO academy today it’s to bad out here and safety is number one priority. If your kid can come Thursday at the same time as they would today for a make up or Saturday, Sunday for a make up that would be perfect. Again do to bad road and wind conditions please stay home and be safe. I know we never stop but for the safety of our parents and kids we have to stop today.

08/11/2024

Let’s gooo welcome the three newest members of the 3SSB Adidas family. Elie, Anna Claire and Evelyn. They will be traveling with me and LeeLee next year ballin in front of scouts. Big big shout out to there parents who trusted me and stayed with me and believed I would deliver what I said I was gonna do. The blueprint is out I have one who’s doing already. They went down did there thing in tryouts and I had no doubt in the outcome. Again I don’t have to say nothing about my kids and my program just look why I’m doing over here with these girls. What program in this town can do what I do, What program in this town or in this state got 4 girls playing on the adidas circuit or any big time circuit. Let me tell you NONE!!!!!! I got the big dog LeeLee and now Elie, Anna Claire and Evelyn. Yaw know exactly what it is WE WILL NEVER STOP and why would they. These are Earnest Bells kids oh by the way I got more boy oh boy I got more hahahahaha.

08/10/2024

She keeps exceeding my expectations. The one thing I will say about mines is she listens to me about the PROCESS. Since the beginning she has trusted all my decisions that every move I make with her is the right one no questions ask. You have to live in these shoes to understand the process, and every coach that recruits her say the same thing LeeLee is so lucky to have a dad who knows how this game works. The training the basketball games and the recruiting I’ve lived this already so it’s easy to navigate here through this. It’s a fun process let me tell you but we aren’t done yet and she knows it. Shout out to Lauren Ware and Joe Ware who has given us great advice to help us as well. Lauren Ware has been in these shoes and she’s a giant like LeeLee so they have a lot in common. Good job shorty now it’s time for the next mission LeeLee Bell an Earnest Bell kid allllllll day. She knows exactly what it is WE WILL NEVER STOP!!!! Oh I got more boy oh boy hahaha I got more. The future around these parts is about to get ridiculous.

06/25/2024

Miss Bell

03/22/2024

Four academy studs two first team all state Lee Lee and Maggie, and my boy Logan Conklin and McKenna Johnson 2nd team all state.

03/15/2024

https://playeroftheyear.gatorade.com/winner/leelee-bell/40192

Leelee won the 2023 - 2024 Gatorade Player of the Year in North Dakota for Girls Basketball

03/05/2024

All Earnest Academy studs coach Benny said it perfectly about these girls. They put in the work at the Academy and look what they accomplished the championship game. We came up short this year but you can learn more about yourself when you lose. I can promise you this these girls will be back. They will be back at the academy and I will not let them forget what happened and we will fix the problem and we will be back in this same spot next year ready for War. At the academy we won’t push things under the rug we will deal with it and get better and use this as a motivational tool to get better. This will be my 5th team that has been to the championship game out of the academy. Minot High Boys academy kids on there three year run. Minot High girls academy kids on there championship run. Bishop Ryan Boys got to the championship game with Anthony Vetter (Academy kid) and that crew and Redeemers got to the championship game with Leyton Lang (Academy kid) and that crew and now South Prairie girls academy kids all over this crew. Again I don’t have to say anything my kids on these teams do my talking. Shout out to these South Prairie girls great job I’m sooo proud of you but let’s get back to work and do what we do so we get get this title next year. Academy kids allllll day they all know exactly what it is WE WILL NEVER EVER STOP!!!!! Lets go.

02/21/2024

Let me tell yaw something. Everybody knows how much I love love my kids. I love them so much I put them out in the world early to get beat up so they can learn. I know people are like why does Earnest have a second grade team traveling, well this is why CHAMPIONS playing up in the 3rd grade B division. These are SECOND graders they took there lumps all year and not one time coach Matt came to me and said Earnest I think this is to much for the girls. No No I pick DOGS for me traveling teams I pick kids that likes to compete. I pick kids that hate to lose I pick kids that have that will to win. I train these kids with that will to win attitude and look at us now. Do you think after this championship they are thinking about all the loses they took. Nope look at there faces and you ask yourself where should you be bringing your kids to get this training, where will they go where trainers know the process for these kids as they grow. You know the answer Earnest Academy we will always do what’s best for the kids. We are patient with the kids we know where they are when they come to us and we know how to get them there when they come see us. But we also pick the right coaches to coach them to get them to the next level. My SECOND GRADERS champions alllll day, Sorry I had to vent a little for this team because know one knows the work coach Matt Mueller and Mr. Varty puts in with these kids but I know and I appreciate you guys allll day. They all know exactly what it is WE WILL NEVER STOP and why would they we are Earnest Academy kids allll day. Let’s go!!!