{"id":53443,"date":"2025-05-24T07:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T07:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/53443\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T07:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T07:12:08","slug":"valley-native-now-college-coach-opens-basketball-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/53443\/","title":{"rendered":"Valley native now college coach opens basketball clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkbn.com\/news\/local-news\/brookfield-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BROOKFIELD, Ohio;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">BROOKFIELD, Ohio<\/a> (WKBN) \u2013 Brookfield native and current University of Findlay men\u2019s assistant basketball coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkbn.com\/sports\/valley-native-turned-college-coach-runs-basketball-clinic\/#:~:text=BROOKFIELD%2C%20Ohio%20(WKBN)%20%E2%80%94,Brookfield%20High%20School%20Sunday%20night.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nate Smoot;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Nate Smoot<\/a> is opening two youth basketball clinics over the next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The first clinic is on May 24 and the second is on May 31. Both clinics are at Brookfield Middle School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Boys and girls ranging from grades 5 through 12 are invited. Admission is $25 for each session. The session for grades 5 through 7 will take place from 10 to 11:30 a.m, and the session for grades 8 through 12 will take from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Working the camp with Smoot will be former YSU men\u2019s basketball star-turned professional player Brandon Rush, and current Division I College of the Holy Cross player Will Alijancic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Smoot said more players and coaches will be added to help with the workouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Valley native graduated from Brookfield in 2018 and played both varsity basketball and golf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Smoot graduated from YSU in 2023, where he spent time as a student assistant and volunteer graduate assistant on the men\u2019s basketball team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Findlay men\u2019s basketball is a Division II program in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference. The Oilers finished last season at 24-5 and were the number one seed entering the Great Midwest Men\u2019s Basketball Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Reach out to Smoot at 330-979-1506 to reserve a spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkbn.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WKBN.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WKBN.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKFIELD, Ohio (WKBN) \u2013 Brookfield native and current University of Findlay men\u2019s assistant basketball coach Nate Smoot is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,13944,217,2561,13943,231,772,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-53443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brandon-rush","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-mens-basketball","12":"tag-nate-smoot","13":"tag-ncaa","14":"tag-ncaa-basketball","15":"tag-ncaab"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114561570908853614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}