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Show U 1 ; V ' ; j i 1 1 v. I . X X 1 I i - , 1 ; . t I I A - I vv : f I ' ! I j ' X1 J 1 r- '- -ly "- ... ! I " ') ) j I j i j i " " .1 JAZZ CLINIC BOUNTIFUL This past week some of the young basketball bas-ketball players in the area were treated to the first annual Utah Jazz clinic which was conducted con-ducted at Bountiful High School. THESE youngsters, some 35 of them, were taught by a couple cou-ple of professional players from the Jazz club along with some of the Bountiful coaching staff. Ben Pouqette and Allan Bristow of the Jazz team were on hand all week during the day long campalong with Mike Hall, the head coach for the Braves, and his assistant Mike Evans. This marked the first effort on the part of the two professionals profes-sionals in running the local camp and they look forward to greater numbers in the near future. fu-ture. MIKE HALL, who has been involved with the college camps around the state, summed sum-med it up this way, "being their first year some people might have shyed away but now that the first is over and was a great camp the word will spread and more players will come next year. The ting that stuck out in my mind and the players was the Ben Pouquett of the Utah Jazz demonstrates demons-trates the art of foul shooting to a young admirer last week in the camp that was run by Ben and Teammate Allan Bristow. fact that these pro players were here all the time. Many camps the big people greet the players and then disappear for the week until the awards are made but these two really enjoyed en-joyed working with the youngsters." EACH DAY at the clinic started at 8 a.m. with the war-mup war-mup and exercise period. Then at 8:30 the stations began. This is the process of having each instructor at a station teaching one aspect of the game, then after twenty minutes at one station the players went on to the next until they had been at all the stations. At these stations things covered co-vered included ball handling, dribbling, rebounding, shooting, shoot-ing, offensive moves, layups, how to receive a pass, how to make a pass and some one on one moves and games. AFTER THREE hours of these stations the camp went into their contests just before lunch. Prizes were given to the winners in each division plus a special award for the overall winner at the camp. These contest included foul shooting, one on one, the eliminator eli-minator shooting contest and Pepsi hotshot competition. THE CAMP then took an hour off for lunch with the ' youngsters bringing their own ' and the camp furnishing the drinks, either milk, punch or Pepsi. Movies, games and more stations were in store for the afternoon session which also ' concluded with some sort of competion between the players. play-ers. A draft was held to pick the teams for the week long tournament which ended out those clubs. Each participant of the camp received a T-shirt, a basketball, bas-ketball, Jazz socks and wrist-' band and certificates signed by the two players. SPONSORS LOOK forward ; to bigger and better things for. next season, "we'll have' guests like Andrian Dantley or Darrell Griffith, we also hope, the word spreads and we can get more older players" noted. Dave Wilson one of the orga-' nizers of the event. As one participant, Adam Cole, noted, "it was a great camp, the two pros were great and were fun to be around which made the camp that much better. Plus they really knew their stuff and taught us a lot." |
