THE AVENUES · SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
5TH / 6TH GRADE · SUMMER 2026
SF AVES
EST. 2026
WELCOME TO SF AVES · SUMMER 2026
THE NAME
What is SF AVES?
AVES is Latin for birds — the class of animals that includes every species on earth capable of flight. Swift, migratory, built to move and to return. There is something ancient in that word. Something that has always pointed west.
But for this team, the name means something more rooted: The Avenues. The numbered grid of streets that runs through the Richmond and Sunset Districts — the 1st through 48th, cutting west toward Ocean Beach. These are working neighborhoods. Fog-swept, diverse, full of families. Not the postcards. The real city.
SF AVES lives at that intersection — the birds and the avenues, the thing in flight and the streets that taught it how to leave. It honors where we are from and carries the energy of something just beginning.
WHY IT MATTERS
Planting a Seed
This team is more than a summer basketball program. It is the beginning of something being built on purpose — a culture, an identity, a crew of kids who will carry this with them. The name on the back is their last name. The name on the front belongs to all of them.
Every great team that ever meant something started exactly like this: a small group, a first season, no history yet — just the choice to show up. We are making that choice this summer.
THE PEOPLE BEHIND IT
Founders & Staff
SF AVES is built by parents, coaches, and community members who believe youth basketball is about more than the game. Meet the board.
Braz Salangsang
Founder · General Manager · Board Member
Born and raised in San Francisco, Braz is as city as it gets. He is the organizational backbone of SF AVES — the person who makes sure everything that needs to happen, happens. His roots run deep in these neighborhoods, and this team is his way of giving back to the community that shaped him.
Nick Cifuentes
Head Coach · Board Member
Born outside Philadelphia and raised on the game, Nick carried basketball west when he landed in San Francisco. A former high school and college athlete turned dad and weekend warrior, he co-founded SF AVES to give kids in the Avenues what the game gave him — structure, identity, and something worth showing up for.
Tiffany Hung Salangsang
Creative Director · Board Member
Tiffany has always moved between worlds — technical and creative, structured and instinctive. Now working independently, she brings that rare balance to SF AVES as the eye behind the brand, making sure every detail from the kit to the look book carries the intention and craft these kids deserve.
Michelle Huang Scott
Event Director · Board Chair
Born and raised in San Francisco, Michelle is a builder — of communities, of resources, of access. She founded Threads For Therapy, an advocacy brand that funds therapy playgroups for children with special needs, and she brings that same energy to SF AVES as Board Chair. For her, this team is personal — it is about creating something real for every family in the Avenues.
Jody Scott
Assistant Coach · Spiritual Leader
Born and raised in San Francisco, Jody is a man of many frequencies — he hears what others miss and says what others won't. On the court he is the voice that steadies the room, part coach, part counselor, part soul. He reminds these kids that character is built in the moments nobody is watching.
THE APPROACH
How We Play
Every player on this team earned their spot. There was no tryout for potential — you are here because the work is already visible. The skill set exists. What we are building now is something harder to teach: the willingness to make the person next to you better.
The philosophy is simple. We play. We run our sets, we read the game, and we trust each other in open space. Fundamentals are not a step back — they are the foundation that allows everything else to happen fast and clean. We will drill them. We will sharpen them. And then we will play.
But this summer is about more than basketball. Chemistry is not built in practice — it is built in the moments between: the walk from the parking lot, the huddle after a tough loss, the laugh that breaks the tension before a big game. That is what turns a group of talented players into a team people remember.
FROM THE COACHING STAFF
A Word on Growth
I want each of you to walk away from this summer changed — not just as a player, but as a person. Every great team I have ever been part of had one thing in common: the individuals inside it were growing at the same time the team was. That is not a coincidence. That is the whole point.
Greatness is not given to the most talented. It is given to those who stay coachable, who compete without ego, who lift the room when the room needs lifting. This team has the talent. Now let's find out who you are when it gets hard.
There is something spiritual about a team coming together around a shared purpose. You are all from different places, different stories, different backgrounds — and for one summer, the same jersey. Honor that. Take care of each other.
"Have fun. Play free. Make it mean something."
THE BADGE
Design & Meaning
The badge was designed to hold the entire story of this team in one mark. Everything on it is earned — every element is a place, a principle, a reminder of where this started.
STREET SIGN POLE — The Intersection
A Victorian cast iron pole. Two signs: SF horizontal, AVES angled perpendicular — exactly as real SF corner signs meet. The crossroads of where we come from.
THE CYPRESS — Rooted in Stone
A windswept Monterey cypress on the left cliff — Land's End. Shaped sideways by decades of ocean wind. They don't move. They become the shape of what tested them.
THE CLIFF HOUSE — Where the City Meets the Water
Perched above Ocean Beach since the 1800s. History, the Pacific, and the western edge of San Francisco.
THE WAVES — The Pacific Below
The ocean crashes at the base. The west side is defined by it — the fog it sends inland, the cold it holds all summer, the scale it puts on everything.
SUNSET SKY — The Palette
Deep navy through burnt orange to warm gold — the western horizon at dusk. These colors run through every piece of the uniform.
THE UNIFORM
Dark Kit
The night version. Off-black base, the full sunset along the sides, fire at the collar.
Pure off-black (#1A1A1A). The night version of the uniform.
V-neck with orange, magenta, and deep purple stripe trim — colors of a west side sunset.
SF AVES badge centered. Rigorer mark upper left chest.
Sunset gradient — deep navy through burnt orange to gold at the hem, cypress silhouettes layered in.
Number and last name in parchment cream, dark brown outline. Wave/sun neck icon on back collar.
Black base. Sunset gradient side panels. SF AVES badge on front left hip.
THE UNIFORM
Fog Kit
Parchment cream like the sky over Ocean Beach before the sun burns through. The west side at its most itself: quiet, grey-gold, unhurried.
Parchment cream (#F0EDE4). The fog version — the west side in the morning.
Round neck with sky blue, orange, and navy stripe trim.
SF AVES badge centered. Rigorer mark upper left chest.
Sutro Tower above a Victorian skyline in muted steel blue-grey. The neighborhood, behind the game.
Number and last name in deep navy, warm gold outline. Wave/sun neck icon on back collar.
Matching cream base. Sutro skyline side panels. SF AVES badge on front left hip.
THE DETAILS
Neck Icon & Shorts
THE NECK ICON
Wave & Sun
The neck badge is the secondary mark — stripped down to its core. A flat graphic sun, setting hard into layered Pacific waves. It sits on the back collar, visible when a player is in motion: a quiet signal to anyone watching that this team knows exactly where it comes from.
THE SHORTS
The shorts complete the world — dark kit runs the full sunset gradient with cypress silhouettes down the sides; fog kit carries the Sutro Tower skyline in steel blue-grey. Both kits wear the SF AVES badge on the front left hip and mirror their collar palette at the waistband. Everything speaks to everything else.
THE ROSTER
Summer 2026
Cifuentes
#12
Salangsang
#34
Hoang
#5
Huang Scott
#3
Yu
#10
Bacon
#23
Moberg
#24
Padilla
#33
Heller
#21
Quintal
#7
Wong
#6
THE SEASON
Summer 2026
Five regular season games. One summer. Every one of them matters.
SF STATE AUX GYM · MONDAYS
Schedule subject to change. Updates shared via group chat.
GAME DAY READINESS
Availability
| Player | 01JUNE 8 | 02JUNE 15 | 03JUNE 22 | 04JUNE 29 | 05JULY 6 | 06JULY 13 | 07JULY 20 | TOTAL |
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Players update availability directly in the team Google Sheet. This page reflects the latest data.
5TH / 6TH GRADE DIVISION
League
Standings Summer 2026
| # | Team | W | L | PCT | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season begins June 8 — standings update weekly | |||||
Results No games played yet
Game results will appear here as the season progresses. Check back after June 8.
Division standings and results are updated by coaching staff after each game week. All games played at SF State Auxiliary Gym, Mondays.
SEASON MOMENTS
Gallery
THE BEGINNING
Something
Starting Here
Every team that ever meant something started in a gym somewhere with a small group of people who showed up and decided that was enough to begin. No history. No legacy. No guarantee of anything. Just the belief that what you build together eventually becomes real.
These kids are the first SF AVES. The ones who wear year one on their backs without fully knowing yet what that means. The ones the next group will look back at. The ones who get to say: we were there at the start — on a court in the avenues, the summer the fog rolled in and we played through it anyway.
The uniform carries that. Every color, every detail, every element on the badge points back to this place, these streets, this neighborhood. It is made to be worn with pride. Both sides of it.
"We are planting a seed this summer.
What it grows into is up to them."
FROM THE AVENUES.
FOR THE AVENUES.
SF AVES · EST. 2026