Marble Falls basketball teams up with Lone Star Hoops for camp
CAPTION: Lone Star Hoops coach Jan Jernberg. Courtesy photo
The Marble Falls Independent School District boys and girls basketball programs in partnership with Lone Star Hoops is offering a week-long camp Monday-Thursday, June 24-27.
The camp, designed for incoming second-ninth graders, is from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at Marble Falls Middle School. Lunch is included. Both boys and girls are welcome, and the cost is $175. Campers do not have to be Marble Falls ISD students.
Campers are split into groups according to what grade they’re going into.
Lone Star Hoops coaches are extremely familiar to central Texas: Tim Kaman, who has spent more than 30 years as the Fredericksburg High School boys basketball head coach, and Jan Jernberg, who retired as the Lake Travis High School boys basketball coach in 2011 and was selected into the Texas High School Coaches Hall of Fame in 2021.
“They run the camp and bring the stuff,” Lady Mustangs basketball head coach Adley Canales said. “They’ve been doing camp since the 1990s. They have a big following and network.”
Mornings are spent working on sport-specific drills that include shooting, ball handling form, footwork, defense and how to properly perform parts of the game’s important plays such as backdoor cuts, pick and rolls, and setting screens to free up shooters.
After lunch, players are divided into groups for 3-on-3 and 5-on-5 play to implement what they learned during the morning session.
“It’s team stuff,” Canales said. “Such as how to move without the ball.”
This is the fourth year Marble Falls and Lone Star Hoops have partnered up. Marble Falls ISD basketball coaches will be assisting.
Canales said the coaches who are participating have a love for the sport and only want to help athletes become the players they want to be. That’s why they’re extending an open invitation to any athlete going into the second through ninth grades who want to get better, he added.
“We’re trying to promote basketball in general,” he said. “What we’re doing is good for any program. We’ve had Corpus Christi kids who’ve come to the camp. Normally we get a hundred campers. You can show up at the gate and still register. I think it’s a great opportunity for anybody who’s interested or loves the game of basketball. We want to make it enjoyable and fun and make them want to contribute.”
The Marble Falls ISD athletic department is still hosting Marble Falls Forge ’24, its summer strength-and-conditioning program, throughout the week, too. It’s for rising seventh-12th grade athletes.
Canales said those who aren’t at basketball camp are strongly encouraged to go to strength and conditioning on the high school campus.
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