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Trail Blazer Basketball Camp
June 23 - 27, 2008
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Camp Objectives
The camp is designed to teach basic and advanced skills of basketball according to age and ability. Emphasis is placed on fundamentals with a great amount of personal instruction from the coaching staff and players. Our goal is to give individual attention on each of the basketball fundamentals. The camp does have space limitations and all campers need to pre-register.
Camp Location
The Camp will take place at the in the new JWCC Student Athletic Center. The facility is air conditioned and has state of the art equipment. It is located at 1301 S 48th Street, Quincy, IL.
What to Bring
Camp Director
Michael Elbe has 18 years of college coaching experience with 14 of those years serving as a Head Coach. Coach Elbe has coached at two NCAA Division I schools (University of South Alabama and the University of North Carolina-Wilmington), one NAIA college (St. Andrew College), one NCAA Division III school (University of Dubuque) and one NJCAA Division II junior college (John Wood Community College). He is certainly familiar with the tri-state area playing for his father, the late Harry Elbe who is in the IBCA Coaches Hall of Fame, at Central High School and then playing point guard for Sherrill Hanks at Quincy College for four years.
2007-2008 JWCC Men's Basketball Team
About our Basketball Program
After just 15 years of intercollegiate basketball, the John Wood Community College Trail Blazers has experienced much success. In our third season, the basketball team earned a berth at the National Junior College Tournament and placed seventh overall and ended the season with a 25-11 record. The following year, the Trail Blazers repeated as Region XXIV Champions, earned another berth in the NJCAA National Tournament finishing 5th in the nation and ended the season with a 32-4 record. In addition, the program has sent numerous players to the NCAA division I and II levels earning full scholarships to compete at the next level. We take great pride in our accomplishments on the court as well as in the classroom. Every year, we strive to recruit the best people, students, and players to represent our college, community, and program in a first class manner.
