The Gordon Central girls basketball team held their Second Annual Future Stars Basketball Camp this past week. The Camp drew 28 kids from the county, most of them returning from the previous year.

“It is about what we had last year despite being a four day camp instead of a five day camp because of Memorial Day,” said GC Girls Basketball Coach Lee DuBose. “A lot of kids came back so they obviously enjoyed it last year and that made me happy.”

DuBose is teaching the Future Stars Camp for the second year, and is in her third year of teaching summer basketball camps for Gordon Central.

Helping Dubose with the camp were several middle school and high school players as well as former players for Gordon Central.

The camp focused on the basic fundamentals of the game, including dribbling, shooting, passing and defense.

“The kids come in the first day and they want to know immediately when they can play,” said DuBose. “But we always take the first few days of camp to teach the basic fundamentals and then give them the last day of camp to have some competition and do some fun things.”

However, the campers are not the only ones that get something out of the camp. DuBose believes that her players gain some valuable experience as well and adds that if they can teach something then they will know how to do it when they play.

“It’s neat to walk around and watch them showing the kids how to do things because it shows me that they really know how to do it,” said DuBose. “And it gives me another reason to yell at them at practice when they do it wrong.”

DuBose believes that it is the connection between the high school players and the kids that keep bringing them back year after year.

“The younger kids love them,” said DuBose. “They get to know the players and half the time that is why they comeback.”