 This morning, a group of some of the most promising young basketball players in the area attended Kelly Wells and the University of Pikeville's elite basketball camp, which Coach Wells says is aimed not only at honing players' skills on the court, but also the skills involved with being a student athlete at the next level. What we try to look at is three phases. One of those is academics, which is very important and we'll stress a lot of time talking about academics. One is character and we'll talk about it quite a bit in the recruiting process and then talent. The early stages of this today are going to be working on their talent, trying to get their skillset where it needs to be and giving them ideas of what they can improve on. Then we'll go to a segment talking about recruiting and eligibility and academics. Then we'll take a little bit of break and we'll come back and watch them play where we can evaluate them as team players. Today was the first of two elite camps offered by UPIKE that are designed to give high school athletes a taste of what collegiate play would be like while also giving them a chance to show off their skills to the UPIKE coaching staff. This is an invitation only camp. It's for high school freshmen through senior, some kids that we've targeted in the area and some out of state that we've targeted and try to get here so we can evaluate them. But also like I told them at the beginning, it's a camp for them to learn kind of the drills, the system that we teach and then take it home. One day of camp is not going to change anybody's life. But if you take the things that we teach them here today, we'll talk about academics, we'll talk about eligibility, we'll talk about recruiting. So it's a lot of stuff in a packed day today for them to take home with them. And according to Wells, don't be surprised if some of these up and coming athletes are on the hardwood at the Expo Center in the coming years as many may be future UPIKE Bears. Well last year, two of the kids that came to our camp, we offered them full scholarships and they're now on our team. So hopefully we'll be able to do the same with some of these kids that are coming through now. Reporting for EKB News, I'm Scott Robinson.