TCNJ News
For Immediate Release:
December 7, 2007
Trenton youngsters to practice basketball and life skills with TCNJ undergrads, Saturday, Dec. 8
EWING, NJ … The College of New Jersey’s Bonner Center for Civic and Community Engagement and Team New Jersey Amateur Basketball Club (Team NJ-ABC) have teamed up to organize the “Hoop Skills Academy,” a one-day event which will integrate basketball instruction with youth development workshops for Trenton-area kids in grades 3-8.
Young people from the Trenton Boys & Girls Club, the Academic Sports Academy at Hedgepeth-Williams School (run by Greg Grant, former NBA player and TCNJ Lions basketball standout), the Young Scholars Institute and the Trenton Hurricanes will work with TCNJ students from Heather Fehn's first year Effective Leadership seminar, and other mentors in workshops that will focus on a range of topics, including leadership, conflict resolution, and academics.
“Hoops Skills Academy” will take place Saturday, December 8 starting at 9:30 a.m. where the players will meet in the College’s Recreation Center. After hearing a brief overview of the day and its purpose, the players will be organized into groups and begin a rotation that will include three stations: 1) basketball skill development; 2) games and competitions; 3) workshops.
TCNJ undergraduate students and players will join Matthew Pauls from Team NJ-ABC and help run each station. The day will also include a tour of the campus and a chance to attend the College’s 3 p.m. game against Rutgers University - Newark.
For more information please contact Pat Donohue, director of community engaged learning at the Bonner Center: 609.456.7585. or Brittany Adylotte at 609.760.1914.
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TCNJ currently is ranked as one of the 75 "Most Competitive" schools in the nation by Barron's Profiles of American Colleges, is rated the No. 1 public institution in the northern region of the country by U.S. News & World Report, and is one of Kiplinger's Personal Finance's top educational values in the country. In 2006, the College joined an elite group of institutions when it was awarded a Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Fewer than 10 percent of the nation's colleges and universities share this honor.
