The Need for Exposure to College & Options
A major goal of HLBC is to create interaction between campers with mentors and guest speakers that will broaden the campers’ horizons and raise their sights for what is possible in their lives.

Through dinner discussion topics, classroom activities and a mentor college/career fair, a given group of HLBC campers learn about 40 different colleges and jobs from 40 different mentors. Because it happened to a mentor, now a teammate and a friend, maybe it can happen to them too.

If We Can’t All Make the NBA, What Else Can We Do?
We suggest to campers who love basketball and want to be involved with the game, that there may be other jobs related to the NBA and sports in general besides being a player. Via a HLBC sponsored college fair and our guest speaker program. Campers learn about different colleges and important leadership skills as well as different well-paying sports career paths they can pursue – for example, broadcaster, coach, agent, team doctor, sports marketer.

How It Works

Basketball Breaks the Ice! As HLBC mentor Joe Stetson noted: “Once you give a kid a bounce pass and he scores, he immediately likes and trusts you.”LEARN MORE

2009 Schedule

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Past Speakers

See a list of past guest speakers such as NBA referee Tom Washington, ESPN reporter Chris Broussard and NJ Nets General Manager Rod Thorn, campers learn about important leadership lessons from the game as well as different well-paying sports career paths they can pursue – for example, broadcaster, coach, agent, team doctor, sports marketer. LEARN MORE