Achieving Greatness Inc presented the 41st Youth Summer Basketball Camp for area boys and girls at the Penn Hills YMCA. It was the first time under the direction of AGI and the 5th annual in the memory of the late great Armon “The Hammer” Gilliam.
Gilliam, who passed away far too young and far too soon, was actually a wrestler in high school and a late bloomer on the hoop court.
The Bethel Park native went on to junior college picked up the needed inches to complete his 6’9” frame and went onto UNLV to became a #1 NBA draft pick and finished a fabulous 15 year career alongside the likes of Charles Barkley and other legends. The rest as they say is history.
Boys and girls from around the Pittsburgh area, ages 8-16, were treated to “hard work,” t-shirts, lunch, skills & drills, basketball games, lots of push-ups and lots of love. The best stat we can offer from the weekend is out of the eighty-seven participants…no injuries and no dismissals…that’s “The Hammer” way!
A tremendous special thanks goes out to “the nails” that make “The Hammer” work. Chuck Sanders Charities, William F. Goodrich, Esquire, John P. Goodrich, Esquire, the Penn Hills Police, the Pittsburgh Housing Authority, Office of the Chief Executive Allegheny County, D.A. Stephen Zappala, Master Jacquet Bazemore, Brother Yuseff and Brother Isaiah, KBK Enterprises, special thanks to Gina Thorpe, Highmark, Vocelli’s Pizza, The Savoy Restaurant, The United Rays Corvette Club, the New Pittsburgh Courier, all of our local team sponsors and, of course, the fantastic Penn Hills YMCA.
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