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2008 Boys Basketball June 26-28 The Cornell men’s basketball program is offering an elite camp from June 26-28, 2008. This camp is intended for boy’s in grades 9-12 and is recommended for high school players who are serious about playing collegiate basketball. The camp will provide high level instruction by Cornell coaches and features competitive games. Each session of camp will be run like a Cornell practice. Campers receive a FREE camp T-shirt and a Cornell jersey.
Early enrollment postmark
deadline is June
6 2008 Boys Basketball Day
Camp June
29-July 3 These basketball camps will focus on fundamentals and specific skills. Basic skills and techniques will be covered thoroughly. Campers will learn and practice post moves, rebounding, shooting, passing, and footwork among other things. "Position" specific skills will also be addressed. For example the guards will focus on ball handling, passing, shooting, decision making, moves with the ball, etc. Campers can sharpen the skills they learn throughout the week through organized drills and scrimmages. Games will be played in the afternoons. All campers receive a FREE camp T-shirt and basketball.
Early enrollment postmark deadline is June
6 Before and after camp care is available 7:40 a.m.-5:00 p.m. for an additional $50 fee! FEATURING
ONE OF THE FINEST
In each successive season, the quality of play by the Big Red has steadily improved. Donahue has coached and/or recruited six of the school's top 20 all-time leading scorers, two Ivy League Rookie of the Year players, three Academic All-District picks and one Academic All-American. Donahue's 2005-06 team matched the previous season's win total both overall (13) and in Ivy play (8) while recording back-to-back winning Ancient Eight seasons for the first time since the 1986-87 and 1987-88 teams under Mike Dement. Cornell finished in third place in the final league standings as both Lenny Collins and Adam Gore earned second-team All-Ivy honors, while Gore was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Year. The team also won a school record five Ivy League road games. The 2004-05 Ivy League Coach of the Year according to CollegeInsider.com, Donahue's Big Red squad earned its highest Ivy finish in 17 years with its second-place effort and claimed its first winning Ancient Eight campaign (8-6) since the 1992-93 season. It was only the seventh time in school history that Cornell finished second in Ivy play. Among the many highlights of the season was a sweep of Princeton for the first time in 20 years and the first win at Jadwin Gymnasium in 19 years. The Big Red swept a Yale-Brown weekend for the first time since 1999-2000, hit a school and Carrier Dome record 15 3-pointers against No. 7 Syracuse and defeated St. Bonaventure of the Atlantic 10 on the road in what Jay Bilas of ESPN had called one of the five toughest places to play in the country. The Big Red had two players named All-Ivy (Lenny Collins - first team, Eric Taylor - honorable mention) for the first time since 1997. The team's 13 wins overall were the most since that same 1996-97 campaign. As part of his philosophy, Donahue has accepted the gauntlet thrown down by the top programs in the Ivy League and upgraded the non-conference schedule. Cornell has played an NCAA finalist in two of the last three years, including eventual national champion Syracuse in 2002-03. In 2003-04, the Big Red hosted eventual national runner-up Georgia Tech. Donahue's Big Red has regularly played teams from power conferences such as the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Atlantic 10, Big Ten, Big East and Mountain West Conferences. This year's schedule includes a trip to Big Ten foes Iowa and Northwestern, as well as home games against 2005-06 conference champions Albany (America East) and Bucknell (Patriot). Renowned as a top recruiter and for his offensive mind while an assistant at the University of Pennsylvania, Donahue learned the trade from some of the nation's top coaches.
Nat Graham Nat Graham is in his third year as an assistant coach at Cornell under head coach Steve Donahue. Graham played three seasons at Penn when Donahue was the team's assistant coach. He then came to Cornell after being an assistant coach at both the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto. In his first season, Graham helped Cornell to 13 wins and an upper division Ivy League finish with an 8-6 mark in conference play. He assisted in the development of Ivy League Rookie of the Year Adam Gore, as well as All-Ivy selection Lenny Collins. At Western Ontario, Graham helped the team to the Canadian national tournament and also was in charge of conducting clinics and summer leagues along with his regular coaching duties. At Toronto, he was part of a staff that helped the program make a substantial turnaround (9-24 to 17-17) that included a playoff victory. Graham served as the team's recruiting coordinator and also ran multiple high school tournaments as well as the school's successful summer camp. Prior to his stint at Toronto, Graham spent two years coaching the boy's and girl's varsity and junior varsity basketball teams at MM Robinson HS in Burlington, Ont., and spent two years coaching the Burlington Panthers basketball club squad. The Panthers reached the quarterfinals of the provincial championships and featured three Division I players. Graham lettered twice in three
seasons at Penn and was part of two undefeated Ivy League championship
teams before transferring to Western Ontario. At Western, Graham was
a two-time first-team all-league and All-Canada selection. He went
on to play for two seasons professionally in Ireland and Denmark before
returning to coaching.
Zach Spiker returns to the Big Red for his fourth season as an assistant coach under Steve Donahue. During his first two seasons, Spiker's enthusiasm and knowledge of the game helped the Big Red to upper division finishes in the Ivy League. He has been instrumental in helping Cornell's recruiting efforts the last two years. In 2005-06, Spiker helped the Big Red to its second consecutive winning season in Ancient Eight play for the first time 18 years. Adam Gore was named Ivy League Rookie of the Year and joined Lenny Collins on the All-Ivy second team. The 2004-05 Big Red earned its highest Ivy finish in 17 years and claimed its first winning Ancient Eight campaign (8-6) since the 1992-93 season. The Big Red had two players named All-Ivy (Lenny Collins - first team, Eric Taylor - honorable mention) for the first time since 1997. The team's 13 wins overall was the most since that same 1996-97 campaign. Spiker joined the staff in June 2004, returning to Ithaca after spending the previous two seasons at West Virginia where he served as an administrative assistant under head coach John Beilein, helping the team to a pair of Big East tournament appearances and an invitation to participate in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) in 2003-04. While in Morgantown, Spiker was responsible for managing on-campus recruiting visits, opponent scouting, postgame film breakdown and overseeing the team's daily event schedules. Prior to joining the Mountaineer staff, Spiker served from 2000-02 as a graduate assistant coach at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C., helping the Eagles advance to a pair of NCAA tournaments after winning the Big South tournament in successive seasons. While at Winthrop, Spiker was responsible for team travel, film exchange, directing camps, coordinating recruiting mailings and managing on-campus visits. He was responsible for creating the school's first-ever coaches' clinic and the first-ever team camp. Spiker played two seasons of basketball at Ithaca College before serving as a student assistant coach as a senior, helping lead the Bombers to the 2000 ECAC championship, the first such basketball title in school history. Spiker graduated from Ithaca College in May 2000 with a bachelor's degree in communications and earned a master's degree in sport management from West Virginia in the spring of 2004.
Cornell players will be camp counselors on and off the court! Camp Information Schedule You can request more information from the Cornell Summer Sports School by phone at: 607.255.1200 by e-mail at: camps@cornell.edu
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Zach Spiker