M.L. based Basketball camp teaches key game skills
RISE basketball camp is teaching local budding basketball players from grades 1 to 12 the top skills they need to be successful in the game.
The camp, which started as a club-based program in La Loche and Clearwater River Dene Nation, moved to Meadow Lake when local teacher Navanga Burke started teaching at Gateway School three years ago. It has grown in popularity not only the in region, but with budding b-ballers from across the province.
“I wanted to give girls from the northwest a chance to play at a competitive level,” he said. “I started working with the boys later, and that’s when the camp started to get bigger.
This year, there are boys and girls enrolled in the camp from as far away as Weyburn and Estevan, and Saskatoon, Regina, Battleford, Kindersley and northern Saskatchewan. Burke said about 65 per cent of the 92 campers enrolled are from Meadow Lake.