Weldwell April School Holiday Camp a Success
Is there anywhere else in any sport where you have current and former international representative players, current and former National League players and National age group representative team players coaching young up and coming sports people.
The answer is yes, right here in Hawkes Bay and the sport is basketball.
Boy; are we lucky or what
Over the past week the players of the HBS Bank Hawks have coached at the Weldwell sponsored Basketball Hawkes Bay (BBHB) holiday camp much to the delight of the 78 young players aged between 6 and 15 years. Add to that current National Emerging Tall Fern player AaliyahAh Kiong and basketball legend and BBHB Development Coached Clifton Bush and Reece Tuala-fata and you have one of the best camp coaching staff ever assembled .
It is a full on week for players and coaches they start at 8.30 am each day and ending around 4.30 pm.
The daily activities include a wide range of skill improvement activities, competitions and games. Players who attend camps are generally the ones who go onto higher
The coaching staff:
Head Coach; Clifton Bush (RDC BBHB, USA-NZ, Central Arkansas, NZ Breakers, Snaefell Iceland)
HBS Bank Hawks Coaches:
Jarrod Kenny (Tall Black and NZ Breakers), Dion Prewster (Junior Tall Black), Kareem Johnson (USA University of Cincinnati), Paora Winitana (Tall Black, Adelaide 36ers and the New Zealand Breakers), Brian Greene (USA Florida A&M University, Switzerland (Lunguna Tigers) PBL Jacksonville Jams Ukraine, (Summy), (Nikolaev), (Hoverla) and (Olimpija Ljubljana) Turkey, (Antalya BSB), Darko Cohadarevic (Serbia – Texas Tech, AEK Cyprus, Kutaisi Georgia, Itysiakos Greece, Zlatorog Slovenia) Alonzo Burton (Junior Tall Black), Ezra Nikora (NZ Under 21), Jacob Walsh (NZ Under 20), Reece Tuala-Fata (BBHB Development coach, HBS Bank Hawks)
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