The Indiana Nike Lady Legit AAU Frosh team capped its successful summer by winning its third tournament championship this past weekend.

The Fort Wayne-based team defeated Team Ontario Canada in the championship round of the Great Lakes Summer Showcase in Ypsilanti, Mich. Lady Legit went 6-0.

Lady Legit won all three events it entered this summer, including the 32-team blue division of the Nike Summer Showcase in Chicago and inaugural AAU Freshman Super Showcase in Orlando, Fla.

“It was an excellent summer,” Lady Legit director/founder Art Gregory said. “These were all pretty much national-level-type events, so we were real pleased with the way the girls performed.”

Local players representing the frosh team in last weekend’s event were Elmhurst’s Lacia Gorman and Liza Clemons; Brielle Wattley and Cameika Gregory of Snider; South Side’s Brittany Johnson; and Carmen Lowe of Homestead.

The girls will get some time off until after Labor Day when the AAU program begins its “Fall Sunday Workouts,” which is open to any high school player.

The focus of the workouts is on physical development such as agility, quickness, jumping and conditioning. Skill development comes with scrimmages.

“We break their game down and build it back up again,” Gregory said. “We focus on their weaknesses and the goal is two-prong – one is to supplement what they’re doing to get ready for the school season and it’s also geared, especially for the juniors, as (preparing them) for their last opportunity to play in front of a mass audience of college coaches.”

That mass audience is the Oct. 3-5 college exposure weekend held at Spiece Fieldhouse. Gregory said last year’s inaugural event was attended by coaches or scouts of every Division I college in Indiana, excluding Evansville, and most Division II and III schools in the state. Michigan State, Notre Dame and the vast majority of Mid-American Conference schools also sent coaches or scouts.

“For our first year, it was really well attended,” Gregory said. “A lot of that was because they were aware of players like Clemons. But that was a drawing card to pull coaches in and opened up opportunities for other players to be seen. Kids from Ohio, Michigan and all over the state attended.”

Players don’t have to be a member of an AAU team to sign up for the event. The first two days will be for individuals to showcase their abilities and the final day will be for teams, such as Lady Legit, to compete against one another.