Our team has not lost a player in over TWO
YEARS. Until now. One of the Original Eight is moving 15 hours away.
The
team came together last night to eat pizza and celebrate Celine #1 (who
went 6 for 8 on 3s in her two games this week.)
She will be missed.
The
rest of the girls are trying to figure out how to include their missing
sister in future practices via Skype.
Coach Jason DeVeau and I missed the summer league games last week to take 8 Destroyer athletes to a sleep away basketball camp on the Wheaton College campus in Norton. It is one the best basketball camps that I have attended in over 30 years.
We attended the Point Guard College Prep School, a "course is designed to give athletes a vision of who they can be as a basketball player, a student, a leader, and a person. In addition to learning everything needed to play smart, strong basketball on the court, players receive five days of training in how to be a special athlete, student, and leader."
The most important of what the girls learned, in my opinion, is how to lead themselves in to special player / a player status on the court, in the classroom and in the home. The bonus that they learned are drills and skills to defeat pressure, protect the ball and break a press.
Here is a link to a highlight video from the PGC Prep School session at Oklahoma City University from June 16-21, 2014.
http://youtu.be/HaNugbKmStA
Jason and I sign a contract pledging that we would not take any video so we don't have any of our girls. This video IS what our girls experienced.
We will be returning to the camp next year with these 8 girls and any Destroyer girls who are going in to grades 7 to 10 in the Fall of 2015 who would like to attend. Point Guard College also offers other
equally as enriching camps for older players.
Here is the link to the program:
http://www.pgcbasketball.com/courses/select-a-course/
