Registration on for Steve Nash Youth Basketball summer camp

Camp starts in June

by GEORGE KAGAME

The 2009 Steve Nash Youth Basketball (SNYB) Camp will give teenagers and pre-teens a chance to sharpen their sport and life skills, according to Herod Excellent thew organizer of the annual summer event.

The camp organized by Mr. Excellent Sports in conjunction with the Steve Nash Foundation, Canada Basketball and Ontario Basketball will be held at Northlea, Banting Best and Crestview Public Schools all located in the vicinity of Scarborough, and at Windfields, Wind, and Don Valley Junior schools from 29th June to August 21.

Excellent the director of Mr. Excellent Sports said in a telephone interview that the camp which is running for the second year is meant to train young people to be better athletes and good citizens by learning from the examples set by Steve Nash who is a two time NBA winner of the Most Valuable Player accolade.

“We are using sports to teach positive life skills as well”. He also added that his team has acquired many coaches to train the students; “we have 1 to 10 ratio for our coaches and students. Registration is currently ongoing and we still have many places for students”.

Excellent said that he has improved the curricula this time round and students can expect a lot of improvement by form of new techniques as a result of his partnership with the Steve Nash Program, “we will work particularly to improve the shooting, speed and organize games like three on three tournaments, skill challenge competition and more”, said Excellent.

For those interested to participate in the summer camp registration is ongoing electronically at www.mrexcellent.com or by phone on 416 222 0211