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THOMPSON — The 2011 Tourtellotte Instructional Basketball Camp came to a close July 15 after showing the ropes of hoop to about 70 campers.
This camp has been going on for the past nine summers in Thompson. Co-directors Don Cushing and Gary Donohue have been working with the Thompson Recreation department to continue the camp. Cushing is the former Bartlett High School and Nichols College basketball coach of 34 years and currently an assistant coach at Worcester State University.
Cushing was inducted into both the Massachusetts and New England basketball Hall of Fames.
Donohue is a former WPI and Nichols College basketball coach for 21 years. Together Cushing and Donohue have been directing basketball camps for 33 years throughout Central Mass and Connecticut.
Last week the Tourtellotte Camp had about 70 campers in the Tourtellotte Memorial High School gym. Throughout the day campers took part in competitions, games and learned through hours of instructional stations. Objectives of the camp are focused on teaching and developing individual offensive and defensive basketball skills.
The camp was divided into two divisions by age-grade ability. The NCAA Division was comprised of boys and girls ages 7 through 11 while the NBA Division was made up of camper’s ages 12 thru 17.
The camp ended July 15 with an award ceremony giving out shirts and trophies to all the award winners.