Basketball

Olympia’s personalized basketball development program is Canada’s first resident summer basketball camp with 45 years of experience running fun and challenging basketball programs

There are seven week-long sessions throughout the summer with separate boys and girls programs maintaining a ratio of 1 coach to every 6 campers.

What Makes our Summer basketball community of everyday Heroes Unique?

Your experience will develop you as a basketball player and as an individual on and off the court and will leave you feeling part of a Community of Everyday Heroes.

Our Coaches

Olympia scouts the best adult coaches from all over Ontario and the world to coach our Basketball program. All adult coaches have experience coaching at either the rep, high school, college, university, national, and professional level and are extremely passionate about youth development on and off the court.

All Olympia Coaches are exposed through Canada Basketball on how to implement Canada’s Long-Term Athletic Development Model that provides an optimal training environment for camper athletes based on their developmental age and specified phases of loading drills and learning.

Our Pros

We are very proud to say that we are the only residential camp that brings in professional basketball players from the NBA, WNBA and beyond, to be part of our Community. When they get to camp, they share their own unique story, run some unique drills, sign autographs and mingle with all the campers.

High-Level Basketball Development in a Traditional Camp Setting

On top of 5-6 hours of great basketball development a day, campers will enjoy all the beauty of a traditional camp and its programs, for a truly unique experience.

Features

Non-stop action
6 indoor pro courts & 6 outdoor pro courts on site
Top flight coaching staff
Progressively sequenced and comprehensive training
Competitively matched competition
PLUS numerous Olympia prizes are awarded for top performance in skill and for personal attitude for various contests, tournaments and camp championships. The Award Ceremony is further augmented by dozens of “draw prizes” from our sponsors for all who attend
Campers play 2 directed competition games/scrimmages daily in a “matched – team” environment to increase ball touches with equal playing time in separate boys and girls inter-league competition. They are coached by 125 of Ontario’s finest instructors from the ranks of university, college, high school, Ontario Basketball club, and elementary coaches who have been exposed to LTAD and counsellors also trained in fundamental movement skills to take each camper towards their performance potential
PLUS “Inner Balance” Training Program

Learn to score from all over the court – balance, footwork, ball-handling & ball management skills
Learn to score from dynamic and static 1-1 situations
Learn to score with back to the basket
Learn to score while understanding and implementing proper decision making from 1-1 to 5-5 game situations
Learn to score in transition advantage situations
Shut down your opponent
Learn to influence, close-out, help & recover, block-out, & rebound. This will be an intense, competitive week that will help you develop the tools and techniques ‘To Take Your Game To The Next Level’ of play. Learning is expedited through video-self-analysis and a LTAD planned week that properly loads drills and promotes decision making