(Photo By Flickr User Matthew D. Britt)
NBA basketball player and Peoria native Shaun Livingston will be putting on his Skills Camp July 28th thru August 1st at Peoria Central High School.
The camp fee is $150 with all the proceeds going to the Shaun Livingston Foundation. Sign up now as space is LIMITED for this camp which will help young players with basketball goals for themselves.
Skills Camp coaches will include: Livingston, Daniel Ruffin, Marcellus Sommerville, and A.J. Guyton.
Camp 411-
Participants will be taken through a week of intense basketball training and fundamental skill
development.The basketball training focus of the camp is basketball specific athletic development, addressing flexibility, agility, balance, power, and strength.
Every camper will leave camp with a better base of fundamental basketball skills and the tools to effectively continue their individual development on their own, to understand how to approach every minute on a playground or in a gym as an opportunity to get better.
About Shaun Livingston:
Shaun Livingston was drafted straight out of Peoria Central High School as a first round pick (4th overall) of the Los Angels Clippers in 2004. He has just recently signed to play point/shooting guard for the Golden State Warriors.
"Basketball is still a game of skill. Strength, quickness, and athleticism are obviously important but skills are what define your success as a basketball player. Footwork, ball-handling, passing, shooting, rebounding, defensive positioning, offensive movement, and overallunderstanding of how to play the game are all learnable skills. Ultimately, though, I believe the most important skill is entirely mental: It’s called being '"coachable." The willingness to listen and apply what you learn through hard work and repetition is what will make or break you as a basketball player." — Shaun Livingston
About the Shaun Livingston Foundation:
The Shaun Livingston Foundation was created by Shaun Livingston as a way to give back to his hometown of Peoria, Illinois. Shaun focused on family and youth outreach in the first year of the foundation through a free basketball clinic at Peoria Central High School and tornado relief for Washington, IL after the devastating tornadoes in November of 2013.
For more information call Amanda at (309) 231-3855 or go to the Shaun Livingston Foundation homepage at www.theslfoundation.org.
