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Nine Tonkawa athletes participated at the Northern Oklahoma College Girls’ Basketball
Camp held July 7-11.
The camp was held for girls in grades 7-12.
Tonkawa participants at camp included Hope Bradford,
Addison Branson, Abby Deck-man, Lily Conrad, Nora Jacobs,
Karter James, Stevee Osborn, Karlee Jacobs, and Sydnee Jacobs.
The following Tonkawa athletes received camp awards:
Lily Conrad (7th-8th) – 2nd Place two-on-two
Sydnee Jacobs (High School) – 1st Place two-on-two, 2nd Place three-on-three
Hope Bradford (7th-8th) -1st Place three-on-three
Karter James (7th-8th) -- 1st Place three-on-three
Karlee Jacobs (High School) -- 2nd Place three-on-three
Nora Jacobs (7th-8th) – 2nd Place Free throws, Outstanding Playmaker
Abby Deckman (High School) – 2nd Place Two-on two
A total of 58 athletes from 21 communities attended the week long camp directed by Greg Krause, head coach for the Northern Lady Mavs.
Campers worked on mass drills, station drills and team transition offense skills, including work on floor balance, filling lanes, court spacing, advancing the ball and shot selection. They also participated in one-on-one, two-on-two and three-on-three drills; hot shot and free throw contests; and league games.
At an awards assembly concluding the camp, Krause presented individual competition first-place trophies, team and individual place ribbons, and Outstanding Player award plaques. Members of first-place league teams each received a T-shirt printed with the team name and year. Each girl received a certificate of participation, an evaluation of her skills from her camp coach, two camp T-shirts and a camp basketball.
Assisting at camp were Lady Mavs assistant coach Carey Phariss, former Lady Mavs Haley Curfman, Blackwell; Jocelyn Cook, formerly of Denton, Texas, now coaching at Pleasant Grove in Texarkana, Texas; Abby Webster, DCLA now playing at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas; Kylee Severin, Timberlake High School, works at Overholser Elementary in Bethany, and Kelsi Smith, assistant coach at Tonkawa High School.
Others included Jackson Jacobs, Tonkawa; current Lady Mavs Mia Brown, Mustang; and incoming Lady Mavs Kaylee Cline, Deer Creek; and Khnly Duncan, Perry.
Northern Oklahoma College, the state’s oldest community college, is a multi-campus, land-grant institution that provides high quality, accessible, and affordable educational opportunities and services which create life-changing experiences and develop students as effective learners and leaders within their communities in a connected, ever changing world.
NOC, a public two year community college, serves 4,200 students on the home campus in Tonkawa, branch in Enid, NOC/OSU Gateway Program in Stillwater, online, and the University Center in Ponca City.
In 2019, NOC celebrated the 20-year anniversary of the Enid campus and a 15-year partnership ...
