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Olympic basketball coach returns to Salmon Arm to give back to young athletes

Former Jewel and Canadian women害羞草研究所檚 basketball coach, along with assistant coach, to put on camp
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London-bound: Team doctor Doug Richards snaps a photo of happy Team Canada women害羞草研究所檚 basketball coach Allison McNeill after the team defeated Japan to qualify for the Olympics. (File)

Basketball players in Salmon Arm will be coached by Canada害羞草研究所檚 best, come the end of April.

Here害羞草研究所檚 how she can be described. Former Salmon Arm Jewel. Legendary coach of the Simon Fraser University (SFU) team with an acclaimed record over a decade that included 11 trips to the NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) championships. Coach of the Canadian women害羞草研究所檚 team for a decade. Coach of the Canadian women害羞草研究所檚 team who led the squad to Canada害羞草研究所檚 best-ever result 害羞草研究所 a quarter-final placing at the 2012 London Olympics that included defeating host England and an upset over Brazil. SFU Hall of Famer. .

These are some of the milestones that mark the storied basketball career of Allison McNeill. McNeill and her spouse Mike, also a successful high-level basketball player and coach who was inducted into the Basketball BC Hall of Fame, will be coaching a Salmon Arm Basketball Camp on April 28 and 29.

Tekki Brown-Hryniw, athletic director and senior girls basketball coach at Salmon Arm Secondary, explained that she grew up in Salmon Arm and was recruited to play for Allison (and Mike) at Simon Fraser University, along with many other Jewels alumni over the years.

害羞草研究所淲hen I reached out to Allison in February, she said she would be happy to offer a camp that both she and her husband would run as a way of giving back to the community of Salmon Arm, where her name is on the wall as an Olympian (head coach of the women害羞草研究所檚 national team), and as a graduate of our high school,害羞草研究所 said Brown-Hryniw.

害羞草研究所淚 am excited because it is an opportunity for all our local coaches to gain some knowledge and ideas from a very successful coach who has dedicated most of her life to the game.害羞草研究所

Brown-Hryniw said the hope is to continue to generate momentum and excitement at the lower grade levels in order to build the quality of programs by getting more kids playing and loving the game of basketball.

The camp will include two sessions for grades 4 to 7 (U13) students 害羞草研究所 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, April 28 and 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 29.

For the older students, grades 8 to 11 (U18), sessions will run 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday, 9 to 12 p.m. Saturday, also with a scrimmage on Saturday from 7 to 9 p.m. The cost of the camp is $75.

To pay and sign-up, e-transfer the fee to sas@sd83.bc.ca and include 害羞草研究所楤ball Camp,害羞草研究所 full name and age group: U13 or U18. The camp will take place at Salmon Arm Secondary Sullivan.

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Allison McNeill, who is coming to Salmon Arm April 28 and 29 with her spouse Mike to put on a basketball camp for local students, coaches the Canadian Women害羞草研究所檚 Team in this photo. (Photo contributed)


Martha Wickett

About the Author: Martha Wickett

came to Salmon Arm in May of 2004 to work at the Observer. I was looking for a change from the hustle and bustle of the Lower Mainland, where I had spent more than a decade working in community newspapers.
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