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JUNE 17, 2016, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A13
MHS to run youth
basketball camps
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
Keizer and Salem area kids
will have the opportunity to
learn from McNary girls and
boys basketball coaches and
players as both programs are
hosting youth camps.
The boys camp runs Mon-
day, June 20 through Thurs-
day, June 23. Incoming third,
fourth and fi fth graders will
meet from 9 a.m. to noon and
rising sixth through eighth
graders 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
The cost is $55 and in-
cludes a camp t-shirt.
Participants will work on
footwork, shooting technique,
passing and catching, indi-
vidual and team defense, drib-
bling and rebounding.
“They [McNary play-
ers] have a good time with it
coaching the little guys and it’s
really cool for the little guys to
have the cool high school bas-
ketball players helping them
out,” McNary boys basketball
coach Ryan Kirch said. “We
play some games but most of
it’s skill development.”
The girls camp will take
place the following week,
June 28-30, from 9 a.m. to
noon, for girls entering the
fi rst through the eighth grade.
Registration is $50 for one
child and $35 for each addi-
tional family member.
“Our kids run it. They do
a great job with it,” McNary
girls basketball coach Der-
ick Handley said. “It’s a re-
ally good end of the summer
bonding thing for us.”
Special areas of instruc-
tion include pivoting, screen-
ing, moving without the ball,
post moves, guard and wing
play, attitude, team work and
shooting. There will also be
games during the week, moti-
vational handouts, awards and
skills competitions.
“What’s really fun this year
in particular is our incoming
freshmen, they can play sum-
mer ball with us and this is
the fi rst time that we’ve seen
a lot of these kids who have
gone through our camps are
now becoming McNary Celt-
ics,” Handley said. “So it’s been
really fun for us as coaches to
see sixth graders who are now
going to be freshmen and how
much growth they’ve had, to
be able to build that relation-
ship so when they come in
we know who they are and
we know how they play, they
know us. It’s been really good
for both sides in that sense.”
Due to renovations at Mc-
Nary, both camps are in the
Whiteaker Middle School
gym.
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
Gabby Schmidt looks to score during a McNary girls basketball team scrimmage last week.
Boys,
continued from Page 12
GIRLS,
continued from Page 12
McNary will attend the
University of Oregon Team
Camp June 24-26.
“That’s always fun for them
to end the summer on,” Kirch
said.
The Celtics will play seven
games against schools around
the country.
“It’s mostly games at Mat-
thew Knight arena. The bas-
ketball part is great but it’s
team bonding and they get to
live in the dorms for a cou-
ple nights. From a coaching
standpoint, they have a bunch
of socials. We get to hang out
and talk to other coaches from
other teams, out of state teams,
which is good. You get tired of
playing everybody that knows
you over and over again.”
MHS will take July off
to allow players to join their
AAU and club teams as well as
visit colleges.
“When things go bad, we’re
still looking for the person to
step up and right the ship or
calm it a little bit,” Handley
said. “I think Sydney Hunter
and then Jaylene Montano,
they’ve both done a really
good job as far as to step in
and take that leadership role,
both are going to be seniors,
but it’s a new role for them.
I’d still just like to see a little
bit more growth in that sense
of can you calm down one of
DURAN,
continued from Page 12
But Duran hadn’t received
an opportunity to compete in
college until she added hur-
the younger players and limit
mistakes to one or two posses-
sions as opposed to an entire
half of mistakes, which unfor-
tunately has happened a few
times.”
With the graduation of the
three college-bound players,
fi nding depth is also impor-
tant this summer.
“Even last year we only
played seven and lost three
of them, which means we’re
going to have a lot of spots
open for players that haven’t
had experience,” Handley said.
“So the big thing we’re trying
to do this summer is kind of
fi ll in our gaps and get some
depth. The goal is hopefully
that we’ll have eight or nine
that can really contribute to us
at the varsity level.”
McNary will hold practices
and scrimmages through June.
The Lady Celts play Silver-
ton and Wilsonville Tuesday in
Silverton.
At least four girls—Hunter,
Hawley, Anita Lao and Kailey
Doutt—will then play AAU
basketball beginning in July.
Hunter, who plays for Or-
egon Elite, received her fi rst
college offer last week from
University of San Diego.
“They are going to be
busy,” Handley said.
dles to her repertoire.
“When I fi rst tried track I
had really bad form because in
gymnastics everything is dif-
ferent,” Duran said.
“I just got better as the
years went on. I still don’t
have the best form when I
hurdle but I have the speed in
between hurdles and I can get
over them.
“Every single race I was al-
ways nervous I was going to
fall on my face and be embar-
rassed but I never did, thank-
fully.”
BETTER THAN NEW
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
McNary incoming senior Alex Martin makes a move to the bas-
ket during Monday’s boys basketball practice.
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