By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
The Darting Basketball Academy, in conjunction with the Topeka non-profit group Sole Reason, will hold a Community Give Back Camp on Dec. 28 at Topeka Collegiate School to help provide new sneakers for kids in need.
The camp, which will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., will include 50 participants, with the price of admission a new pair of sneakers that will be distributed to local children. The camp sold out within 24 hours, but interested individuals are still welcome to donate shoes to the project.
Kerry Darting talks to a group of young players this past summer. Darting Basketball Academy will host a basketball camp on Dec. 28 to help provide sneakers for youth in the Topeka area. [File photo/TSN]
The goal is to raise 200 pairs of shoes to distribute within the community.
"We have camps throughout the year and the community supports us a lot so we wanted to do something to kind of give back to the community and help kids,'' DBA's Kerry Darting said. "There's a lot of need in the community, so I thought it was a perfect fit to have kids come out and get better in basketball and then at the same time we're able to help a lot of kids.''
Current and former local high school basketball standouts as well as city coaches will serve as instructors at the Dec. 28 camp.
Sole Reason's goal is to provide every needy child in the local community with a new pair of sneakers.
If interested in donating a pair of sneakers, email Kerry Darting at
