Members of the Riverbank High basketball programs hosted the first day of their Youth Basketball Clinic on Saturday, Jan. 6. Classes in the schools hadn’t resumed yet after the long winter break but students returned to the high school campus for the fun and instructional activity.

Sponsored by boys and girls basketball coaches, players from the teams split up with seven groups around the Fauria gym to teach youngsters from first through eighth grades the fundamentals of playing the game.

Drills included rebounding, dribbling, passing, passing and shooting the ball.

In the gym, the cross courts are used, so the PE basketball hoops can be utilized. They can be lowered for the younger players.

The sessions are scheduled so that similar age groups work together.

First and second graders are scheduled from 9:15 a.m. to 10 a.m., third and fourth graders from 10:15 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Both fifth and sixth graders and seventh and eighth graders play from 11:15 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Last Saturday and this coming Saturday, Jan. 13 are scheduled as clinics, where players work on fundamentals, then the final four weeks of the program have players breaking into teams to compete against each other.