The Tonsler League of Charlottesville has a fierce reputation across the Commonwealth of Virginia as the best summer basketball league in the area.
Originally established in 2010 by Damien “Snake” Banks, and formerly known as the Banks Collage Basketball Association (BCBA), in 2022 the league was taken over by Dr. Wes Bellamy, and renamed as the Tonsler League in honor of Benjamin Tonsler, the former principal of 30 years of the first Black school in Charlottesville, entrepreneur and community leader.
