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The Official Ball of ND-Basketball Services.
For the 4th time T.R. Basketball Management is organizing it's Pro Player Camp during the summer of 2009. The event is for all female players who are wanting to play overseas. The Pro Player Camp will start on Friday the 12th of June and will last until Sunday the 14th of June 2009. Location is the Prince George High School in Prince George, Virginia (U.S.A.). During these three days all players will be going through several practice sessions, playing games and receive helpful information sessions. You will be evaluated on your skill level during the practice sessions and games. This evaluation will help you to understand what it is you need to work on in order to be successful to play overseas. During the camp there will be several practice sessions, games, information sessions and every player will be evaluated. For more information about our Pro Player Camp visit our website. The camp will be under the direction of Thomas Roijakkers, who has organized several camps in the U.S.A. and Europe. Thomas has worked with several female and male professional teams in Germany and the Netherlands. Also Lori Drake, currently playing professionally in England 1st division, will work with the players and will share her experience as a player while playing overseas.
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Wed 04 Feb 2009 04:31 NEWPORT NEWS -- A layup? Easy shot. A jump shot? Everybody shoots that one. A free throw? Piece of cake, the cliché says.
Now try The Motley. Put 2.7 seconds on the scoreboard clock, inbound the ball at the far end of the court, take a dribble and let fly from the OPPOSITE 3-point line. You have to make the shot, of course, but to do it the right way, bank the ball off the backboard from some 60 feet away. Adrienne Motley did that not long ago, leaving Hampton Roads Academy fans and teammates awed and amazed by another example of her seemingly limitless basketball abilities. That's one of the reasons why, after Motley pulled off another surprising move in another game, the HRA student section chanted in sing-song unison, "She's in eighth grade, she's in eighth grade." Motley, 13, is one of a group of precocious youngsters making names for themselves around the Peninsula this winter. That group includes LaQuanda Younger, the Warwick freshman who leads the Peninsula District in scoring, and Amber Warner, another freshman who is one of the leading scorers in the Bay Rivers District for Bruton. "She has the chance to be special," said Boo Williams, Hampton Roads' basketball guru, of Motley. "Right now you're looking at her potential, but I think she's willing to put in the extra effort." Motley averages more than 24 points for the Navigators, tops in the TCIS by more than four points a game. Her high is 37, against Nansemond-Suffolk on a night when HRA, its bench shortened by illness, scored only 46. She is a big reason why HRA spent part of this season as the top-ranked team in the Virginia Independent Schools' Division II poll and is ranked No. 2 this week. After missing the state tournament last season, the Navigators should have no problem getting in this season. They're 13-3 going into Tuesday night's game at Bishop Sullivan in Virginia Beach.
Motley's basketball interest began when she tagged along with her referee dad, Adrian Motley, when she was a little tyke. Once she started bouncing the ball around when she was 5 or so, she fell in love with the game. "One of the neat things about Adrienne is her relationship with her father and their relationship with basketball," said HRA coach Laura Stoner. "He has a strong knowledge of the game and she has a love of the game. They seem to have the right balance, from my perspective, where he does a great job of supporting her, yet teaching her at the same time." Said her dad: "I'm her hardest critic. I'm always thinking and looking for ways for her to improve, but she amazes me sometimes." More from Stoner: "When I hear them talk after the game, he'll say, 'That time you drove, the right move was a pull-up.' He analyzes different situations and how she can handle the next one better, not that she made a mistake, but talking about the nuances of the game. I think that's why, as a 13-year-old, she has so many weapons in her pocket." The elder Motley said he first started seeing glimpses of his daughter's basketball ability when she was 9, playing on an 11-under AAU team. "She went from being just a practice girl to starting and playing minutes," he recalled. Tidewater Conference of Independent Schools rules allow eighth-graders to play varsity-level sports. And if the TCIS rules hadn't changed last year, there's a good chance Motley would have played on the varsity as a 12-year-old seventh-grader. "I really wanted to play last year because Jocelyn Spencer played last year. She's my role model," Motley said of Spencer, a key reserve as a freshman this year at Virginia Wesleyan. "She would have been one of our key players," Stoner said. Motley entered HRA as a sixth-grader and played on the middle-school team. Last year she was the top scorer on the JV team, but her dominating play made some of her older teammates wonder how she would adapt when she joined them. "Watching her on JVs, we weren't sure how she was going to work with the team," said Caroline Suttle, "but honestly, she involves so many people. It's not about her shooting." Rachel Edwards agreed. "I just told Adrienne this the other day, but when she was on JV, I leaned over and said to Caroline, 'How do you think she's going to do on varsity?' " Edwards said. "We were really unsure, but she's our buddy now." Motley said she didn't expect to have such a key role as a first-year player. "I was nervous at first, because I didn't know how they would approach me. But it's cool now," she said. "I like to set up my teammates. I feel like I get them open shots." Motley and three other newcomers joined seven returning players from a team that just missed out on a state-tournament berth last year. "We participated in summer leagues," Stoner said. "Adrienne was able to do that with us, so that started the transition. We go to team camp, Adrienne was at the AAU nationals, so she wasn't able to go with us, but it helped some of the other newcomers integrate." And though she's five years from graduating, college already is on her mind. "I want to go to UConn," she said, calling the Huskies' fourth-year point guard, Renee Montgomery, her favorite player. Back to that shot, The Motley. It's one time she didn't completely listen to her father. HRA inbounded the ball in front of a group of parents. Adrian Motley yelled at his daughter to get a better angle for her shot. "I kept telling her to take two steps," he said. "She took one." |
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