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Built Thunder Strong: Youth Basketball Spreads Hoops Passion

Three full-scale camps were launched in the fall. Not to mention the Thunder Fit clinics and private camps held at various gyms in between. Another 2,250 miles and hours of sweat equity slated for the summertime. This was just the beginning of Thunder Youth Basketball’s campaign for the love of the game.

Countless high-fives and a legion of new hoops devotees later, Youth Basketball Programs Manager Michelle Matthews and her crew wrapped up their Green Country stop at the Tandy Family YMCA in Tulsa to signal that camp season was in full tilt. In early April, Matthews, the architect of Thunder Youth Basketball, tipped off the whirlwind week in Oklahoma City at The Hive with the aptly named Hustle Camp.