The Hoop Camp Foundation inaugurated an inclusive basketball camp, aimed at children and young people with disabilities, which will last for a week led by North American instructors.
The program was launched on the covered courts of the Kukulcán Sports Complex, seeking to collaborate so that Yucatan athletes have a better quality of life through the practice of sports.
Steve Garrity, founder of Hoop Camp, was present at the clinic along with Ben Fuller, director of the group; as well as their coaches Quintin Bethea, Daniel Shaw, Collin Barret and Benjamin Thornbrue, who came to work together with the children and young people of the Paralympic Sports Center, the Telethon Rehabilitation Center (CRIT) and members of the Cerebral Palsy and Chair Associations on Wheel
The instructors mainly worked with children 10 years of age and older, and will also offer sessions at the Salvador Alvarado stadium and the Polifunctional gym.
The first clinic of this group was held in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, and from there came the invitation to get to know this city.
“In 30 years of the foundation we had never come to Yucatan, we are very happy with the reception we had, as well as the quality of the people with whom we work,” said Garrity.
The start of the camp was also attended by Carlos Sáenz Castillo, director of the Yucatan Sports Institute (IDEY); Claudia Ponce Miranda, director of the CRIT; María Teresa Vázquez Baqueiro, director of the Institute for the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities of Yucatan (IIPEDEY); along with athletes Larissa García and Manolo Efraín Ku, originally from Izamal.
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