AUGUST 20, 2009 ISSUE
ASU Hosts Inaugural UREC Basketball Academy This Fall
Registration Available Now
Local basketball players who want to improve their skills through more individualized lessons than summer camps now have an option.
The ASU Recreation Department will host its first UREC Basketball Academy for athletes ages seven to 17 at the Student Recreation Center this fall. The academy offers two groupings of four 50-minute Sunday sessions. The first session’s dates are September 13, 20 and 27 and October 4, while the second session’s dates are October 11, 18 and 25 and November 1. The cost for the sessions is $45 (dependent of an ASU student), $65 (dependent of ASU staff or faculty) and $75 (community rate) for one session and $85, $125 and $145, respectively, for both sessions.
“The academy is focused on individuals and not the team,” said Angela Shook, an administrative graduate assistant for University Recreation. “It is so players can get more individualized treatment.”
Academy programmer Zane Heafner, an ASU graduate student, said that athletes will work on all the skills necessary to compete in game situations.
And it won’t be a big group of athletes standing around listening to a coach talk. Shook said the hope is to have a 3:1 ratio of students to coaches, so there will be some one-on-one time with the coach.
“We want athletes to get better at all skills so they are better all-around players and not just one-dimensional players,” Heafner said.
Heafner came up with a plan for coaches to use so they can teach shooting, dribbling, rebounding, the language of the sport and other individual skills.
Heafner said he wants campers to learn things that their future coaches will expect them to know when trying out for a school or travel team.
The academy isn’t just for students without much basketball knowledge, but for players of all levels. Coaches will determine each player’s skill level and work with athletes on their level.
Coaches for the academy will be ASU students who have a background in basketball, Heafner said.
“We want to get students who might want to coach later on,” Heafner said.
For more information or to register, call 828-262-2100 or click to www.urec.appstate.edu/pagesmith/559.
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