Basketball summer camps in Houston for youth and students
While Texas is well known to be a huge hotbed for football at the high school, college, and professional level, Houston is more known for their prowess on the basketball court. The rise and popularity of basketball in Houston can be attributed to two men, Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler. Both Olajuwon and Drexler paired up in the 1980s at the University of Houston to create an offense that was dubbed simply, “Phi Slamma Jamma”. These two would create more buzz for the city of Houston for basketball when both men paired up in 1995 for the Houston Rockets’ NBA Championship win. Such success has made basketball the sport in Houston.
Popular Basketball Camps in Houston
To help develop talent within the area, the Houston Rockets host their own basketball camps in Houston every year. In alliance with the The National Basketball Academy in Ohio, the Rockets hold a number of basketball camps a year with current Houston Rocket players.
The University of Houston also hosts its own basketball camp with the James Dickey Basketball Camp. The camp itself is staffed by the entire Houston Cougars men’s basketball team, including Houston Cougars head men’s basketball coach James Dickey. The camp is a three day all-boys camp located in the University of Houston athletic center on campus. Boys from first to twelfth grade are trained through all of the fundamentals of basketball.
Since 1997, the Swish Basketball Camps in Houston have been teaching and training Houston area girls the full fundamentals of the game of basketball. The Swish Basketball camps are for girls aged eight to eighteen with the camp focusing on key offensive skills such as ball-handling, passing, and shooting.
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