Alaska - Brawn may help athletes succeed on the basketball court, but it takes brains to get there. Applications for the popular summer college preparation at UAF are due March 31. Accepted students can participate in a three-day RAHI Basketball Skills camp in addition to the regular UAF course offerings in writing, study skills, mathematics, chemistry, business administration or Alaska Native studies.
Students can also enroll in Native dance, computer technology and swimming classes.
It's an attempt to reach more potential students. The camp comes at the end of the academic six weeks and is optional. The basketball camp will be taught by UAF Nanooks men's basketball coach Al Sokaitis. Sokaitis, who has worked with the New York Knickerbockers and has also been an assistant coach at the University of Washington, has coached summer basketball camps in Alaska for ten years. For 17 years the RAHI program has worked to increase village students' opportunities for success by offering an early campus residency program in which students take a full credit schedule of UAF courses.