Hot Springs basketball camp teaches the basics
Tell a little kid to play defense and it can be smothering as these two youngsters demonstrated at the recent Hot Springs K-8 Basketball Camp. (Chuck Bandel/VP-MI)
Camp instructor and Hot Springs AD Brady Ovitt helps a K-2 player get his scrimmage jersey on during last week's Hot Springs Basketball Camp. (Chuck Bandel/VP-MI)
Hot Springs Basketball Camp director Maria Begger conducts a drill during last week's K-8 basketball camp in Hot Springs. (Chuck Bandel/VP-MI)
The future of basketball in Hot Springs appears to be in good hands.
Last week a group of coaches led by Maria Begger, a volleyball and basketball coach, conducted the first Hot Springs Basketball Camp for kids in grades K-8 and by all evidence it was a solid debut of what the organizers hope will become an annual camp.
A total of 36 kids from throughout the Hot Springs, Plains and Thompson Falls areas attended the camp, which was split into three age groups: K-2, grades 3-5 and grades 6-8. The biggest group was the grades 3-5 bunch, which enrolled 19 future hoopers.
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