Youth basketball camps underway throughout the Bronx

Youth basketball camps underway throughout the Bronx

Youth basketball camps are being held throughout the borough this week.Coach Derrick Whittenburg is holding his annual co-ed camp at Fordham, where he takes a lighthearted approach to teaching basketball. Whittenburg has his Fordham players working at the camp. He says it gives his players an opportunity to learn the game from a different perspective. Coach Fred Opper has been running his basketball camp at Cardinal Spellman High School for 12 years. The camp caters to boys between the ages of 7 to 17 and this week Opper says he has 98 kids enrolled.