{"id":44627,"date":"2019-03-15T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/bell-holter-to-headline-basketball-camp\/"},"modified":"2019-03-15T14:52:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T22:52:12","slug":"bell-holter-to-headline-basketball-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/bell-holter-to-headline-basketball-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell-Holter to headline basketball camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Tournament begins next week, so will the “We Belong Here,” a youth leadership and basketball camp.<\/p>\n

Damen Bell-Holter, Sealaska’s Director of Community Youth Programming, will impart basketball skills Monday and Tuesday, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., at Thunder Mountain High School. Tonia Hall will give a comedy show on Monday night at the Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall. Hall has been a full-time comedian for the past four years while raising two children.<\/p>\n

“We aim to develop leadership through sports, advocacy, art and culture,” the signup sheet wrote.<\/p>\n

Motivational speakers and wellness coaches Jesse Lebeau, Thosh Collins and Chelsey Luger will be helping out.<\/p>\n

Bell-Holter grew up in Hydaburg where his dreams of playing basketball in the NBA first percolated. Those dreams realized in 2013 when Bell-Holter — then one of the most dominant big men to ever come out of Oral Roberts University with career totals exceeding 1,000 points and 750 rebounds — received a tryout with the Boston Celtics. Bell-Holter was cut by Boston but found a home overseas playing in Turkish, Finnish and Italian professional leagues.<\/p>\n

The camp is sponsored by Sealaska, AWARE, Goldbelt Heritage Foundation, SEARHC, Tlingit & Haida Central Council and the Zach Gordon Youth Center.<\/p>\n

Applications for camp can be found online at sealaska.com. For more information, contact Damen Bell-Holter at 586-9109 or damen.bell@sealaska.com.<\/p>\n


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\u2022 Contact sports reporter Nolin Ainsworth at 523-2272 or nainsworth@juneauempire.com. Follow Empire Sports on Twitter at @akempiresports.<\/b><\/p>\n


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