Basketball Camp experience.

Freddie Evans is hosting his ninth annual basketball camp at CedarBridge Academy.

This summer camp enjoys basketball for eight hours a day, five days a week.

Students' day begin with warm-up exercises. Next, they are split into groups of 17 and rotate at various "stations''.

Stations are actually the various groups that students are in. At the first station students may be practising their shooting skills while students at another station may be practising their rebounding skills.

Freddie Evans Basketball Camp started out in the first year with 30 kids and now they have up to 210 kids at a time.

He says the students enjoy interacting with the other kids.

"Playing basketball is like a fraternity, you set goals and you meet people and just get to know everybody,'' Mr. Evans explains.

But having a large number of students does not stop him from doing his best to make sure his camp is a productive one.

Mr. Evans has called friends from far and wide to come and teach at his basketball camp.

Mr. Evans has a total of 22 teachers, 12 are Bermudian and 10 have come for the summer from overseas.

Dwayne Wescom, who is entering his final year at Dellwood Middle School, tells The Royal Gazette that his teachers push him to become better and better every day.

Dwayne, who is also on his school's basketball team, says he likes the fact that he can learn from professional basketball coaches from around the world.

This camp is not just for boys. It is also for young women as well.

Ebony Fray, who is in the same class as Dwayne, attends this camp because her elder brother suggested it.

Ebony says she is glad she took his suggestion because on her first day of camp she received a Player of the Day Award. She says she hopes that one day her team will win the Team of the Day Award.

The news of this renowned camp has traveled all the way to Massachussetts.

Thirteen-year-old Akilah King resides in Massachusetts and decided to spend one week of her summer vacation at Freddie Evan's Basketball Camp.

And she says it was well worth the trip.

Students as young as eight years old attend the camp right up until the tender age of 18.

Most students say they want to become professional basketball players and even though it may seem hard at times they know, reaching for the top, is the right way to go.