Warner Robins basketball hosts summer kids camp

WARNER ROBINS — The dead week is over for high school sports, and many programs are back in action with practices, camps and scrimmages.

Demon and Demonette basketball coaches Jamaal Garman and Rebecca White hit the ground running with a kids camp Monday through Thursday of this week.

This is the sixth year the pair have run the camp, and there were more than 80 kids present on Wednesday.

The camp had assistant coaches and players from both programs there to help run the participants through various drills covering every facet of the game.

Some of the things covered included: Free throw shooting, form shooting, agility, passing and defensive drills among other things.

Although exposing kids to basketball in a positive environment is beneficial to the area and program, that’s not why Garman loves hosting this camp every year.

Garman said the camp draws participants not just from the Northside and Warner Robins area, but from all over Houston County and even outside of it.

Some kids came from out of town while visiting relatives, some are from Macon and some are from in town.

The mix of kids from all over, and getting to meet each and every one of them, is what Garman loves about hosting this camp year after year.

Garman has always kept a pulse on the young talent in the area, it’s how he got players like Jay Johnson to make the cross-town jump to Demons basketball.

The kids participating in this week’s camp, local or not, are the future of the Warner Robins basketball programs.