Cebu Daily News / Sports

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JR. NBA reg’l camp starts today Cebu Daily News Posted date: December 27, 2008 SOME 200 student athletes will be taking the first step towards a crack at making the Team Philippines of the Jr. National Basketball Association as the regional selection camp of the milestone grassroots basketball program makes it way back to Cebu today, at the Sacred Heart School-Jesuits basketball courts. The players, aged between 12 and 14, have been handpicked by the different basketball coaches of Cebu and will take part in the camp and will undergo shooting skills challenges, dribbling and passing drills, endurance tests, fitness and agility tests and attend seminars on health and nutrition. Overseeing the camp will be the University of the Visayas’ multi-titled head coach Elmer Cabahug along with former professional players Al Solis, Jolly Escobar and the Philippine Basketball Association’s first-ever Rookie of the Year-Most Valuable Player, Benjie Paras. The Top 20 campers in Cebu will be invited to attend the Jr. NBA National Training Camp in Metro Manila in late February, 2009. They will join the 20 best campers from the NCR. The six best campers in the National Training Camp will be proclaimed the Jr. NBA Philippines Team and will be sent to the US to watch NBA games and compete with a Jr. NBA US Team. /Correspondent Jonas Panerio