Mavs Academy coach Kelli Robinson stood back in awe. Eighteen months ago she envisioned a program with the Dallas Mavericks that would shine the spotlight on girls who loved the game of basketball.
Now all that hard work had finally come to fruition.
Earlier this summer, the Mavs Basketball Academy hosted the franchise’s first all-girls hoop camp, sanctioned by a new Mavs’ program called GEM — which stands for Girls Empowered By Mavericks.
Robinson, a former collegiate athlete herself, helped pioneer GEM with two other Mavericks employees, Lisa Byrd and Becca Brown.