(Submitted file photo/Paige Crozon)

By Ben Tompkins

3x3 Mentorship

Paige Crozon to host youth basketball camp in Saskatoon with help from men’s national team

Nov 20, 2024 | 10:00 AM

Olympic 3×3 basketball player, Paige Crozon, will be back in her home province this weekend to teach the next generation.

Crozon will be hosting a youth basketball camp in Saskatoon on Sunday, with help from Canada Basketball.

The Canadian Men’s National team is set to host the Dominican Republic on Thursday and Mexico on Sunday, in Saskatoon, as part of the FIBA Men’s Americup 2025 qualifiers.

“I just partnered with Canada basketball as a proud local, to bring a really cool basketball experience to the community and just try to gather some excitement around basketball and around the games that are going on,” said Crozon.

“We’ll have around 90 kids at our camp and we’ll have the senior men coming and participating in the camp, and playing with the kids, so it should be a really exciting opportunity for the athletes that are coming to the camp.”

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The camp will be held at Merlis Belsher Place and will feature a grades 5-8 session and 9-11 session.

Proceeds from the camp will go to the Living Skies Indigenous Basketball League, which Crozon, a Humboldt native, runs.

“I work a lot in basketball, obviously, as an athlete and as an administrator, but where I love to be the most is actually just on the court with the kids. I try to do a couple of camps a year, so I was really excited to come back and do camps in Saskatchewan because it’s where I was raised and given the opportunities to succeed in basketball,” Crozon added.

“Just excited to come back and be in Saskatchewan and work with the local community and have a lot of amazing coaches out who actually coached me or have been a part of my basketball journey. It should be a really good and exciting basketball weekend for all in Saskatchewan.”

Another noteworthy thing for Crozon is that she has been named as one of three finalists for the Bruce Kidd Leadership Award.

The award is given at the annual Canadian Sport Awards to recognize individuals and organizations who have made significant contributions to the Canadian sports sector.

The winner will be announced on December 2nd.

“It’s presented to a national team athlete or a former national team athlete that is a sports leader that has provided meaningful contributions for the betterment of sport, as an advocate or change agent or builder,” Crozon told northeastNOW.

“I’m so honoured and so proud to be part of the top three, and no matter what happens, I just feel such a privilege to be able to do what I do, and just to be in the top three is a huge honour for me.”

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