The Basketball Academy is returning to Walkerton and still has openings for
young basketball players wishing to take their game to the next level.
The week-long camp runs from July 5 to 9 at Walkerton District Secondary
School and is conducted by the Laurentian University Mens’ Basketball team.
It is open to boys and girls in Grades 5 through 12. The Academy is a high
intensity camp that pushes participants to a new level of competition.
With an emphasis on effort and full-speed basics, the camp teaches players
to be the best player they can be by utilizing 100 per cent of the skills
they have. The Academy helps players master their skills at full speed so
that games feel like slow motion movies allowing players to execute skills
with precision and ease.
The Basketball Academy is coached by Laurentian Voyageur assistant coach
Aaron Sidenberg who receives the assistance of members of current Voyageur
basketball players and coaches. Because school and club teams must spend
most of their time on team concepts, this camp helps build on individual
skills that will help every team succeed.
The goal of the camp is to re-enforce the great job local coaches have been
doing by adding a new face with fresh intensity and new drills.
“This just isn’t any basketball camp,” said the 27 year-old Sidenberg, a
forward who played his high school ball in Burlington and university ball at
the Sudbury institution. “It’s for those who want to learn more than what
they have already learned and to further their skills so they can take their
game to the next level and with the team they play for.”
The academy focuses on all fundamentals at a non-stop heightened level from
working with screens, shooting, ball handling, footwork, passing, cutting
and defence. It finishes with games.
Sidenberg, entering his fifth year as the Voyageurs’ assistant coach, has
been running camps and clinics the last 10 years, mostly in the Sudbury
area.
This summer the Basketball academy will hold camps in Walkerton, Sudbury,
Peterborough, Goderich and Timmins. Any local basketball players interested
in taking part in the Walkerton camp can register online at
www.thebasketballacademy.net. For more information contact Dan Rourke at
Walkerton District Secondary School at 519-881-1780 ext. 529.