Forty three Battle Mountain youths attended the RPM basketball camp for three days last week in the gymnasium at Battle Mountain High School.
The Randy, Paul and Michael (RPM) basketball camp was broken into two groups, high school from 9 a.m. - noon, and the smaller kids came in from
1 p.m. – 4 p.m. The cost of this camp was $75, which included a T-shirt and a basketball.
Michael Anderson is the Athletic Director at Wooster High School and the ‘M’ in RPM.
“Myself, Paul and Randy have been putting on this camp in Battle Mountain for the past 18 years,” he noted. Randy Havens is from Colfax High School and Paul Tremayne is the girls basketball coach in Battle Mountain.
“Dribbling is my favorite part of basketball," said first-time camp attendee Geo Ruvalcaba, "I came to this camp because I wanted to get better and have a competition.”
The RPM Basketball Camp provides instruction to 4-12 grade boys and girls teaching them the fundamentals of basketball. The goal is to develop the skills necessary to be successful high school players.
Coach Tremayne addressed the campers during a huddle, “When you catch the ball, square up to the basket. Then, you shoot, you dribble or you pass.”
Every camper received a personal workout book from RPM which contained many motivational stories as well as a personal evaluation from the coaches.
Specific details about the skills of dribbling, shooting and passing were also included in the book, as was a calendar/chart designed to make it easy for the kids to keep track of their progress after the camp ended.
“There are five categories that the coaches address in the workout book, their strengths and weaknesses, and what they can work on over the summer,” said Anderson.
Another first time camp attendee Aldo Nevarez had this to say about the camp. “A friend recommended this camp to me. I really wasn’t about basketball back then, but it’s a really good camp.” Nevarez concluded,
“The coaches here are teaching us how to post up, all those old moves, you know?”
“I have been coming to this camp since third grade," said Nolan Chopp. "You learn the fundamentals of basketball, how to play the game, how to get better at it. It’s a really fun camp, I recommend it.”
