Summer Basketball Camp 2023
Vickery Creek Middle School
Enrollment: Rising grades 4th – 8th boys and 6th-8th girls
Dates: Monday, June 5th - Thursday, June 8th, 2023
Location: Vickery Creek Middle School, 6240 Post Road, Cumming, GA 30040
Daily Schedule: 12:30pm-4:00pm
Awards Ceremony: Thursday the last 20 minutes of session
Investment: $175
To register Click here and choose your appropriate camp and rising grade level.
The camp will be directed by Coach Bert Tucker of Collegiate Prep Basketball Academy in conjunction with Vickery Basketball Coach Michael Cheek. You can reach Coach Cheek by email: mcheek@forsyth.k12.ga.us. To learn more about Coach Tucker please visit the website and see the About Us page.
Program Content:
-Speed, agility and flexibility training
-Improvement of weak hand
-Proper shooting form and preparation
-Necessary body lean while ball-handling
-Becoming a “two footed player”
-Individual & team defensive stance alignment
-Personal reliability within the team defense
-Offensive non-ball skills
-Understanding of defensive angles and rotations
-Reading the secondary defense
-Assessing the defense for proper passing angles and entries
-Understanding and escaping pressure defenses
-Rebounding strategies utilizing leverage and horizontal concept
-Proper screening angles, techniques and reads
Methods Employed:
-Motivated and enthusiastic environment
-On court demonstrations with active participation and repetition
-Competitive breakdown drills for skill development under game conditions
-Improved foot speed, quickness and reaction time
-Explaining the “why” to increase comprehension level
Benefits:
-Dramatically improved individual fundamental skills
-Enhanced knowledge about “how to play the game”
-Enlightened perspective of personal role & team play
-Improved foot speed, quickness and reaction time
-Foundation to improve individually outside of camp