MVP BASKETBALL CAMP TO HOST A CLINIC FEATURING HALL OF FAME COACH BOB HURLEY

MVP Basketball Camp, a nonprofit athletic organization,
will host a Basketball Clinic featuring Hall of Fame Coach Bob Hurley on Saturday, October 29th from
4 pm - 6 pm.  The event will take place at White Plains High
School located at 550 North Street in White Plains.  Boys and girls, ages 6 – 16, are welcome to
participate. Parents and
children are invited to stay from 6 pm – 6:30 pm for pizza, pictures,
autographs, and a brief presentation on MVP’s scholarship award program. All proceeds from
the event will go to MVP’s scholarship fund, which provides awards to children
whose families can't afford camp tuition and children with a family member
serving in the US Armed Forces.  Since
its inception, MVP has awarded over 4000 scholarships to attend its acclaimed
summer camp at no charge.

In addition to an instructional
basketball clinic, there will be contests and plenty of prizes. The cost to
attend the fundraising clinic is $40 per child in advance or $50 at the
door.  You can enroll via an online form
that can be accessed at http://www.mvpbasketballcamp.org/on-line-registration_clinic.html.

Volunteers and auction item donations
are welcome. To help support MVP's Scholarship Award Program, call Executive
Director Noel Muyskens at (914) 946-1231.  To
make a
tax-deductible on-line
donation,
visit: http://www.mvpbasketballcamp.org/donate.php.  

 About Hall of Fame Coach Bob Hurley

Robert Matthew "Bob" Hurley, Sr. is the basketball coach at St. Anthony High School in Jersey City, New Jersey. He has amassed 26 state
championships and more than 1000 wins in 39 years as a coach, creating a
national powerhouse despite substandard facilities and financial limitations.
On February 2, 2011, Bob Hurley became the 10th coach in high school history to
win 1000 games. Five of his teams have gone undefeated, including his 2010-11 team,
and his program has become a recruiting hotbed for Division 1 colleges.

On August 13, 2010,
he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, the only coach inducted that year and only the third
high-school coach in history to be so honored. 
In nearly 40 years at St. Anthony, Hurley has never earned more than a
$9,000 annual stipend, passing up lucrative college jobs to change lives in the
inner city and to help save a small struggling Catholic school by putting it on
a very big stage.  Even with 26 state parochial titles,
the victories are a small part of what he has accomplished. Hurley has been a
father figure for hundreds of inner-city teenagers over the past four decades.
He has placed nearly all of them in four-year colleges, most on
scholarships.  Hurley has said
he would trade in those wins for a chance to help more inner-city kids. "I
would give them up for one more chance with some of the kids I didn't reach
over the years," Hurley said. "If I could have a second chance with
some of those, it would be worth all the adulation."

About MVP Basketball Camp

MVP Basketball
Camp is a nonprofit athletic organization that runs basketball camps and youth
development programming in Westchester County, NY, for over 1000 youth each
year.  Founded in 1994, MVP’s mission is
to afford youth the opportunity to build basketball and life skills in a
fun-filled atmosphere that celebrates diversity.  At MVP, basketball provides youth, ages 6-16, with experiences
that increase the development assets (e.g. self-esteem, leadership, responsibility,
restraint, conflict resolution, cultural competence) youth need to grow into caring,
healthy, competent, and responsible adults and community citizens. MVP camps
and clinics teach goal setting, planning and decision making, perseverance,
fair play, respect for others, team work, and other valuable life skills.  Through its Community Outreach
Program, MVP provides over 350 scholarships (full and partial) annually to
families who cannot afford the camp tuition; since its inception, over 4,000 scholarships have been
awarded.  In conjunction with the New
York City Fire Commissioner, the Firefighter’s Fund allows relatives of
firefighters lost on 9/11 to attend camp on full scholarship.  Hoops for Troops provides relatives of
serving soldiers the opportunity to attend MVP free of charge; in partnership
with the Wounded Warrior Project, scholarships are also offered to the children
of veterans who have been wounded in action.

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