Hoopskool Basketball - A community as good as a club
Summer Camp 2024
Colaiste Chraobh Abhann, Kilcoole a63 wf10
10 am to 1pm
Week 1 July 1st - 5th
Colaiste Chraobh Abhann, Kilcoole a63 wf10
10 am to 1pm
Week 2 July 29th - August 2nd
meet the Head Coach
Our Coaches have years of experience working with and developing thousands of players in Ireland, the UK, Europe and the USA. Our Head Coach is Gillian Clarges. Here is a snapshot of the HoopSkool story to date. .
Gillian founded HoopSkool in 2010
She has been coaching camps since she was 15 years old and was trained under Dr Mike Hollis of Networks Basketball.
She was Head Coach at St Andrews College Booterstown for 7 years and lead her teams and programme there to great success with All Ireland medals and promotions to higher divisions during her tenure.
Gillian worked as a Tutor in Health Related Fitness for 12 years in Youthreach (a government initiative for early school leavers) where she learned to have empathy and patience for all types of people. Her background is in Sport Science and she owned and ran her own Sports Therapy Clinic for 8 years before HoopSkool developed.
She is the proud mum of 1 year old Sophie and absolutely adores working with children for all walks of life and backgrounds. You will find her in the gym at most sessions encouraging, motivating and full of energy.
Gillian particularly enjoys working with Coaches on their own journey, in the past 5 years she has trained up and mentored numerous Coaches who you will get to meet at Camp
The Camp Outline
All of our camps have a theme to them. We specialise in player development and we find that bringing a structured programme to the camp is a great way to fast forward the learning of the players.
A week at camp is sometimes equivalent to a half a seasons worth of training. Our camps are 15 to 20 hours depending on the week but that’s a lot of time to master any skills.
Gillian specialises in programme planning and you can guarantee the camp will be full of structured developmental learning. We recommend that players are focused and keen to improve. We cater for new players and various levels but if there is no interest in development we recommend you try a camp which may follow a different structure.
Camp begins daily at 10 am and finishes at 1 pm. There will be opportunity to play at the end of the day but each session will have a specific focus and goal to work towards.
July 1st - July 5th
July 29th - August 2nd
Play Opportunities/Scenarios and Game /Team Preparations
1. Play scenarios for ( 3 v 3 )
2.Getting you prepped for trials/team
3.Scoring developing and drive
Shooting Technique/Mechanics and Scoring Opportunities
1. Shooting Preparation and Shooting Mechanics
2. Execution of Shooting Techniques
3. Scoring Scenarios
4. Fundamental (dribbling, passing, games)
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