AWC to offer fall hoops clinics

The Arizona Western College women's basketball team will be offering a pair of fall clinics to teach girls the proper fundamentals of basketball.

The Matador Girls' Basketball Fall 2008 Clinics will be held each of the next two Saturdays, Oct.18 and Oct. 25, from 9 a.m. until noon each day.

This Saturday's camp will be held at the Woodard Junior High School Gym on 8th Avenue and 22nd Street in Yuma. The site the following Saturday will be the The House - the home of the Lady Matadors - on the northeast corner of the AWC campus at 2020 S. Avenue 8E in Yuma.

AWC women's basketball coach Patrick Cunningham, assistant coaches Marisol Arenivas and Stephanie Jauregui as well as the entire Lady Matadors' 2008-09 basketball team will be on hand to provide expert instruction to up-and-coming girls' basketball players of all skill levels.

Cunningham and his camp counselors will offer fundamental teaching stations and shooting games throughout each clinic.

The cost of the clinic per participant is $25, and each camper will also receive a camp T-shirt plus autograph and photo opportunities with the AWC women's basketball players and coaches.

For more information, call coach Cunningham either by phone at (928) 317-6312 or by e-mailing him at patrick.cunningham@azwestern.edu; or assistant coach Arenivas either by phone at (928) 317-6057 or by e-mailing her at marisol.arenivas@azwestern.edu.

Those wishing to register on the day of the camp need to arrive at the clinic site by 8:30 a.m. each day.

Campers should come dressed in proper camp attire (shorts, T-shirt, socks and gym shoes). All proceeds raised by the camp will benefit the Matador Athletic Association.