KBA Pre-Season Camp
Coach Kevin Lofton will be leading our Pre-Season Camps! We will offer these camps for each grade/gender. This is a great tune-up to prepare for the season. Dates are expected to be early to mid-October. Coach Lofton will lead the camp with assistants from the KHS Basketball teams and Kearney community.
During this Pre-Season Camp if a team for a grade level has 16 or more registered an assessment will be performed by the grade level coaches and a basketball assessment team without intrusion to the camp experience.
What is being assessed?
- Effort and Attention
- Coachability
- Skill
- Basketball IQ
- Knowledge of team basketball concepts
- Competitiveness
Following the Camp, the KBA board will work with the grade level coaches (in consideration of the number of registered athletes, coach availability, and coach/player ratio) and create up to 3 academy style teams. To allow for competitiveness amongst the Academy style teams a minimum goal of 14 players (minimum for 2 rostered teams of 7) but up to a maximum goal of 27 players (3 rostered teams of 8-9) can be considered. Ultimately, the goal will be to provide a positive coach to player ratio in a reasonable gym space where competitive play and development can occur for each player.
Professional Basketball Trainers
KBA will be hosting professional basketball trainers multiple times a season to help better the players and coaches.
Coach Kevin Lofton spent more than 30 years coaching at the collegiate level. His real love has always been with the development of players and he is excited to offer professional training sessions to youth in our area. Coach Lofton will be providing training sessions for grades 3rd-8th in a preseason camp. KBA will also provide more information for youth to sign up for individual sessions with Coach Lofton.
Similar to last season we will have other professional basketball trainers come in to work with our athletes and allow our coaches to learn from the experience as well. KBA is excited to invite these trainers in to work with our program and expose our athletes to these unique opportunities.