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Purdue basketball alumni discuss importance of competition

After warming up, campers are split into groups and rotated trough a series of drills, each led by coaches and counselors. Hummel and his college teammate D.J. Byrd led a drill teaching how to shoot off a screen, a skill that could in some circles be practiced in a non-competitive fashion.

That’s not the way Hummel handled it.

Groups were split into two lines, and the first to make seven shots won.

“I think the ‘everyone’s a winner’–type deal, that’s great, but at the end of the day, I think the kids like to compete,” Hummel said.