{"id":28628,"date":"2016-09-02T08:03:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T15:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/basketball-camp-for-athletes-with-special-needs\/"},"modified":"2016-09-02T08:03:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T15:03:13","slug":"basketball-camp-for-athletes-with-special-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/basketball-camp-for-athletes-with-special-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball camp for athletes with special needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Brittenham, former NBA assistant coach with the New York Knicks, will be in town to run his \u201cI Did. You Can.\u201d basketball camp 9 a.m.-noon Sept. 3-5 at the Juneau-Douglas High School gym.<\/p>\n<p>The camp is free. For more information or to pre-register, please contact Janette Gagnon at 321-6584 Janette.gagnon@juneauschools.org. Volunteers are still needed for the camp. Please contact Gagnon or camp director Brittenham at 203-969-5235 or gdotbritt@gmail.com. <\/p>\n<p>With a ratio of one coach per three athletes, I Did. You Can. is distinctively positioned to provide abundant opportunity for all participants to develop self-esteem, fundamental movement patterns, balance, body control, spatial awareness, eye-hand and eye-foot coordination, socialization, confidence and basketball skills, all within a safe, fun and supportive environment.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers will include members of the JDHS state champion boys basketball team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Brittenham, former NBA assistant coach with the New York Knicks, will be in town to run his \u201cI Did. You Can.\u201d basketball camp 9 a.m.-noon Sept. 3-5 at the Juneau-Douglas High School gym. The camp is free. For more information or to pre-register, please contact Janette Gagnon at 321-6584 Janette.gagnon@juneauschools.org. Volunteers are still needed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-28628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28628"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=28628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}