Aug 21, 2019
Over 800 campers participated in MVP Basketball Camp’s 25th summer! We had an amazing summer and we have a lot of people to thank. HSS Westchester is our premiere sponsor this summer (as seen on the back of every camper’s shirt). They provided our coaches with training on how to properly warm-up athletes to best prevent injuries. HSS Westchester also presented to our campers about proper nutrition and how to take care of their bodies to prevent injuries. Our trainers noticed the difference, too. They said that there were fewer ankle and knee injuries this summer at camp. Thanks HSS Westchester!
Thanks to San Generro’s restaurant in Dobbs Ferry for bringing us lunch four days a week. Their pizza is to die for but the chicken tenders also made a big splash with campers.
We welcomed Burger King, in Port Chester, to our weekly menu. Campers were excited to taste the hamburgers and chesseburgers from the King.
If you have the opportunity to visit these establishments, please do.
Aug 8, 2019
This week MVP Basketball Camp received a $1500 grant from Walmart’s Community Grant committee. Sam’s Club of Elmsword supported our application locally. The monies will go directly to MVP’s Youth Development Scholarship Program and enable five children to attend basketball camp at MVP.
Kabir Kumar, Senior Director of Community Giving at Walmart, wrote, “We are thrilled to support your work in our communities and share your desire to provide local impact. By receiving this grant, you are part of a long history of Walmart’s commitment to giving back to the communities where we operate. In fact, Mrs. Helen Walton used to say,
“It’s not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.”
MVP Basketball is very thankful for the corporate and individual support it receives. As a non-profit, our mission is dependent on this generosity. If you can support MVP’s Youth Development Scholarship Program, please reach out to us at 914-946-1231.
Apr 27, 2019
On Thursday, May 30th from 7 – 9pm, MVP Basketball Camp will celebrate its 25th year of camp by holding a fundraiser at Shenorock Shore Club in Rye, NY. MVP and its friends have given over 6000 weeks of summer basketball camp to deserving, economically challenged families in the Westchester County area. This is your opportunity to help us celebrate that accomplishment and to learn about what MVP has planned for the next 25 years. We will be raffling off dinners, tickets, and experiences. Sponsorship opportunities are available!
Sign up on our home page. If you are interested in sponsorships or have a raffle item you’d like to donate, contact John Nemsick at jnemsick@mvpbasketballcamp.org.
Thanks for your support over the years and in the future.
Feb 22, 2018
At MVP, our mission is to award 300 scholarships every year to deserving children whose parents or legal guardians can’t afford summer camp. For these children MVP is truly a life expanding experience, and we believe the 500 campers from paying families also benefit. In Westchester’s towns and cities, families with significant resources live more and more separate lives from those of modest means, a trend for which sociologists have given a sport’s-related phrase: “the skyboxification of America.” We believe this trend weakens our communities.
We’re calling on all basketball-loving families to support our mission. Spend the evening of Sat., April 21 at MVP’s Hoops Madness family night at the School of the Holy Child, 2225 Westchester Ave. in Rye. Enjoy great food at the event and enter basketball contests for the whole family. Your support, no matter how small or large, is an investment in our children and in the communities where we live. We also invite you to make a donation in lieu of attending if you can’t make the event.
Ticket Prices (plus links to online enrollment below):
Admission is just $15 per person or $50 for a family of four or more, in advance or at the door. The admission price includes food, soft drinks, beer, and wine. There is an additional $10 charge per basketball contest entered. We encourage you to buy punch-cards for multiple entries into these contests.
Contests will include Free Throw and 3-point Shooting and will be organized by age group including an adult division.There will also be a parent/child two-ball skills competition. Anyone can enter an event more than once to try to improve their score and qualify for great prizes at the end of the night.
We also have Corporate sponsorship levels and gladly accept in-kind donations for food, drink, raffle, and auction items. Please call Camp Director John Nemsick at (914) 262-9988 for more information.
Jan 16, 2018
2018 will feature the same great coaches and guest speakers, the same fun contests and game play, and the same awards ceremony at the end of each week where special achievements are highlighted and every camper is recognized as a ‘Most Valued Person.” But there will be a few changes that will help MVP keep it’s reputation as the best sports camp in Westchester:
- Rye Resurrection School will again host camps at the end of June and during the July 4th holiday week. The holiday week offering will be slightly different in 2018. With July 4 falling on a Wednesday, our annual Skills Academy for more experienced 11 – 16 year old boys and girls we will feature a 2-day Academy July 2 – 3 that focuses on individual skills, and then another 2-day Academy July 5 – 6 that is centered on team concepts, both defensive and offensive. Parents may choose either or both sessions.
- There will not be a camp in Northern Westchester. We will split our June 25 week between Rye and White Plains this year instead of Rye and Bedford, with the co-ed 6 – 8, girls 9 – 13, and boys 9 – 10 in Rye and the boys 11 – 16 in White Plains. There will be busing back and forth between the two schools.
- MVP will move its White Plains venue from the Highlands Middle School to the Eastview Middle School. Unlike Highlands, where one of the inside gyms is very small, Eastview features two gyms that are both large enough for cross-court play, thereby increasing the indoor capacity by 25%. Outdoors we’ll feature newly resurfaced courts and a few brand new portable baskets to compliment the existing courts.
- Older girls ages 9 and up will again have the choice of playing in their own separate division during our June 25 week and during our skills academies in Rye, or playing in co-ed divisions during our White Plains weeks. Last year’s trial of four fully co-ed weeks in White Plains was very successful for more experienced female players. It is our recommendation that girls 9 and up who are relatively new to the game should choose the June 25 – 29 week.
On Thursday, July 18th, MVP rolled out the red carpet and welcomed the community to help it celebrate its 25 years of hosting basketball camps in Westchester. County Executive George Latimer opened the festivities with a proclamation celebrating MVP’s contributions to the community, including giving over 7000 scholarship weeks to deserving children from the area. The mayor of White Plains, Thomas Roach, also stopped by to offer his congratulations as did the Superintendent of Schools Dr. Joseph Ricca.