Pacers and National Basketball Academy Team Up for Winter Camps

Nov. 2, 2011 | Click here to register for an upcoming camp

INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana Pacers have teamed up with the National Basketball Academy to produce Pacers Youth Hoops Basketball Camps presented by Gatorade, a series of instructional camps for young male and female players throughout central Indiana.

The four different sessions, three one-day events and one major three-day, mid-week holiday camp, will be held from early December through mid-January and are geared for young players 7-16 years old. The three one-day camps will be held in Brownsburg, Greenwood and Indianapolis. The mid-week holiday camp will be held in Fishers. Each player will be grouped by age, skill and gender when possible.

The camps, which will feature all-time Pacers great Darnell Hillman, will include daily skill competitions, 3-on-3 and 5-on-5 games and more. Two of the one-day camps will be designed for skills and development while another will be a parent-child camp. Each camper will also receive a ticket to a future Pacers home game, a skills packet, a Pacers t-shirt and at the holiday camp, their very own basketball.

“Basketball is special to the state of Indiana, and our fans are special to us,” said Pacers TV analyst and Vice President of Communications Quinn Buckner, who oversees the initiative for the Pacers. “We want to give the kids a chance to improve both their life skills and their basketball skills.”

“We are all proud of basketball in this state,” said Hillman, now the Associate Director of Alumni Relations for the Pacers. “We are excited to have the opportunity to bring our instruction and the knowledge of the National Basketball Academy to the young players of Indiana. Quite honestly, it’s a very unique offering of camps.”

For more information or to register for a camp please visit pacersgroups.com/camps, or call (317) 917-2896. Cost of the camps run from $25 to $95 depending on the site and length of the camp.

Dates and locations of the camps are as follows:

Sat. Dec. 3 Skills & Development Clinic Connection Pointe Christian Church 9:00 a.m.-Noon
Tues.-Thurs., Dec. 27-29 Holiday Camp Fishers YMCA 9:00 a.m.-Noon
Sat., Jan. 7 Parent/Child Clinic Greenwood Community Center 9:00 a.m.-Noon
Sat., Jan. 14 Skills & Development Clinic Ransburg YMCA 9:00 a.m.-Noon