Caribbean Basketball Confederation

Youth players La-Torae Nixon and Travis Manzanares will join coach Shawn Pitterson in a trip to Istanbul next week. There the trio will take part in the Children of the World 2010 basketball camp 25-30 August. They are slated to leave Cayman on Tuesday and return the following Tuesday 31 August. Nixon, 13, has been in local hoops the last three years and was the star of the last Appleby U19 league. Manzanares, 14, has been in the sport two years and played in the Pricewaterhouse Coopers U16 league. Pitterson has coached at all levels of local basketball and recently finished coaching the Esso Blazers adult basketball team in Cayman’s national men’s basketball league. The camp is being put on by the Turkish Basketball Federation in conjunction with the International Basketball Federation (French: Federation Internationale de Basketball), commonly known as FIBA. The Turkish group is covering all accommodations, domestic and international flight expenses. A local high school will host the trio.
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