NCAA basketball star Aaliyah Edwards to host basketball camp in hometown of Kingston, Ont. – Kingston | 24CA News
Kingston’s Aaliyah Edwards is again from Mexico, the place she helped lead Canada to a bronze medal on the FIBA AmeriCup championship. It’s not the consequence she hoped for, however however, Edwards is grateful for the time spent with the senior ladies’s nationwide basketball group.
But this time round, Edwards, who turned solely 21 on the match’s last day, was given a management function on the veteran squad.
“Each year that I get older I get better as a basketball player but I’m also growing as a person,” Edwards mentioned. “I think that’s a big thing I’m noticing about myself because the game isn’t all physical, it’s mental too, so I was just grateful to be put in a leadership role.”
Edwards has wrapped up her commitments to the Canadian nationwide group for the summer time and can now concentrate on her final season with the University of Connecticut.
But earlier than that, she’s taking time to offer again to Kingston by providing a basketball camp at her former highschool this Saturday at Frontenac Secondary School.
“So to come back to share this with my community was a priority for me,” Edwards mentioned. “I’ve always wanted to give back to my community, I just didn’t have the time to, but now that I do, I wanted to seek every moment that I could.”
The camp is free to all those that join — Edwards simply asks for the donation of non-perishable meals objects to Martha’s Table, a corporation close to and pricey to her coronary heart.
“When I was in Grade 6, and my mom and my brother were my coaches for Kingston Impact, we actually did fundraisers throughout our school and then as a team we all went to Martha’s Table and we donated those food perishables, and also we helped serve food,” Edwards mentioned.
The You Got Knext camp, a play on Kingston’s YGK airport locator, might be damaged up into two age classes: grades 7 to 9 within the morning and 10 to 12 within the afternoon.
Even with greater than 150 registrations already obtained, Edwards says there’s nonetheless time to join what she guarantees might be a enjoyable day.
Those desirous about signing up can accomplish that at ygk-basketball-camp.webflow.io.
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