Black History All-Star Weekend: presented by NBCC & The Edmonton Stingers

Saturday Feb.18, at (6804 144 avenue), from 9:00am-2pm, The NBCC & Edmonton Stingers are offering a FREE city wide camp and tournament, uplifting the Black community and our friends, while connecting our youth to multiple generations of Black excellence in the game of Basketball. Our camp and tourney will feature community coaches, and will be organized and ran by the Edmonton Stingers official community ambassador: Mr. Andrew G. Parker (BA, BEd, MEd 2023). The NBA All star weekend also falls on the day of our event and on Saturday afternoon of the BHASW we will host similar events via the Stingers, coach Parker & the NBCC. Our event will host up to 120 children, ages 6-17, (60 elementary kids, 50 Jr high & high school athletes), and we will offer a full day camp as well as a JR high and High school mini tournament (For Free).
In addition to basketball, our camp and tournament will also feature the NBCC All Star Community Brunch held in the Lazerte High School cafeteria (from 1:00pm-2:00pm). The Stingers have committed to providing official Black History All Star Weekend t-shirts for each camper. Parents & siblings are more than welcome to stay for the whole event, and some of our elders in the community will be guest speakers and guest coaches as well. We will have 7 awards for the campers in elementary camp. Each award is named after Basketball Legends from the Black community in Edmonton. The winners of the awards will be treated to a Edmonton Stingers game/court side experience including a meal & tickets. The winners of the Jr high & high school 3x3 tourney will receive wonderful prizes courtesy of the Edmonton Stingers Professional basketball team.