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McCracken Basketball Camp at Albion College offers detailed, personalized individual basketball instruction along with skill-appropriate drills, daily league games, scrimmages, and both individual and group contests for awards. Campers take part in lectures, demonstrations, drills, and stations, as well as a night program, with time set aside for a rest period, individual instruction, free time, and league games.
• Ages: 7–18 years old
• Schedule: Boys and Girls camps run July 6–9, 2026, with check-in on the first day from 1:00 to 2:00 pm and check-out on the last day at 4:30 pm, including an awards presentation beginning at 3:30 pm on the last day of camp.
McCracken Basketball Camp at Albion College follows a sample daily schedule that includes a 7:30 am wake-up, 8:00 am breakfast, 9:00 am lectures and demonstrations, 9:45 am drills, stations, and scrimmages, 12:00 pm lunch, 1:00 pm rest, 2:00 pm lectures, demonstrations, and contests, 3:00 pm drills, stations, and scrimmages, 4:30 pm individual instruction or free time, 5:30 pm dinner, 6:30 pm league games, 9:00 pm night program, and 10:30 pm lights out. Boys and Girls camps at Albion College take place at the same time but run as two separate camps for boys and girls. Overnight campers reside in dorms on campus and are assigned by age and roommate requests, with all meals served in the school cafeteria. Room keys are available upon request at check-in for a refundable $20.00 deposit, which is forfeited if the key is lost. Extended day campers arrive after breakfast and stay until 9:45 pm, with lunch and dinner provided.
McCracken Camps is beginning its 64th year of operation, and The McCracken Basketball Camp was founded in 1963 by Indiana University Hall-of-Fame coach Branch McCracken. Branch’s son, David B. McCracken, became Director of the camp in 1970 and continued in that position until 2001. Over the history of the program, more than 135,000 players have attended, and the Albion College camp page states that in that time over 140,000 players have attended. The camp is dedicated to teaching boys and girls ages 7–18 the skills necessary to have success, with two long-stated goals that each camper should have fun and learn to become the best player that he or she can possibly be. The camp’s philosophy states that they believe in personal attention for each player, both on and off the courts, and that the individual is the most important part of the camp and always will be. McCracken Camps is known as a teaching camp, offering instruction for the most advanced high school player to the younger player who is just learning the game, and it offers a Complete Skills Program with detailed instruction and drills in the skills necessary to be a complete basketball player, including an established program of detailed, personalized individual instruction, skill-appropriate drills, top competition in daily league games and scrimmages, and individual and group contests for awards.
Camp Director Todd German has been involved with The McCracken Basketball Camp for over 50 years as a camper, counselor, Assistant Camp Director, and Camp Director. He was a standout high school and college athlete from Bronson, Michigan, played basketball at Kalamazoo Valley Community College and Manchester College, and received his master’s degree from Western Michigan University. Coach Mark Anderson has been coaching at McCracken Basketball Camps for over 37 years, with experience coaching at the high school, club, college, and professional level. His career highlights include serving as an NBA D-League National Tryout Coach, Head Coach at Cuyahoga Community College where his team were 2004 National Champions, National Coach of the Year (NJCAA), Conference Champions and Conference Coach of the Year, UBA Eastern Conference Champion and Coach of the Year, Ohio Valley Basketball League Coach of the Year, Atlanta Elite Pro Showcase and International Pro Showcase Coach, and LA Summer Pro League Coach (Orlando Division). The leadership team includes Todd German as Camp Director and Owner/Director of McCracken Basketball Camp and Mark Anderson as a coach at McCracken Basketball Camps, and trained counselors work with campers and supervise all camp activities.
Overnight campers reside in dorms on campus and are assigned by age and roommate requests, and all meals are served in the school cafeteria. Room keys are available upon request at check-in time for a $20.00 deposit, which is refundable if the key is returned at check-out and forfeited if the key is lost. Extended day campers arrive after breakfast and stay until 9:45 pm, with lunch and dinner provided. All registered campers are required to have a parent or legal guardian fill out US Sports Camps’ mandatory Health & Release Forms online before arrival at camp, and the camp does not require a doctor’s signature on these forms. A detailed Information Packet containing check-in location and address, on-site staff contact information, a checklist of things to bring, site-specific forms, and more is emailed to all registered campers prior to camp. US Sports Camps offers a Peace of Mind Policy for cancellations. Nike is the title sponsor of the camps and has no control over the operation of the camps or the acts or omissions of US Sports Camps.
Last updated July 18, 2026.
• Ages: 7–18 years old
• Schedule: Boys and Girls camps run July 6–9, 2026, with check-in on the first day from 1:00 to 2:00 pm and check-out on the last day at 4:30 pm, including an awards presentation beginning at 3:30 pm on the last day of camp.
McCracken Basketball Camp at Albion College follows a sample daily schedule that includes a 7:30 am wake-up, 8:00 am breakfast, 9:00 am lectures and demonstrations, 9:45 am drills, stations, and scrimmages, 12:00 pm lunch, 1:00 pm rest, 2:00 pm lectures, demonstrations, and contests, 3:00 pm drills, stations, and scrimmages, 4:30 pm individual instruction or free time, 5:30 pm dinner, 6:30 pm league games, 9:00 pm night program, and 10:30 pm lights out. Boys and Girls camps at Albion College take place at the same time but run as two separate camps for boys and girls. Overnight campers reside in dorms on campus and are assigned by age and roommate requests, with all meals served in the school cafeteria. Room keys are available upon request at check-in for a refundable $20.00 deposit, which is forfeited if the key is lost. Extended day campers arrive after breakfast and stay until 9:45 pm, with lunch and dinner provided.
McCracken Camps is beginning its 64th year of operation, and The McCracken Basketball Camp was founded in 1963 by Indiana University Hall-of-Fame coach Branch McCracken. Branch’s son, David B. McCracken, became Director of the camp in 1970 and continued in that position until 2001. Over the history of the program, more than 135,000 players have attended, and the Albion College camp page states that in that time over 140,000 players have attended. The camp is dedicated to teaching boys and girls ages 7–18 the skills necessary to have success, with two long-stated goals that each camper should have fun and learn to become the best player that he or she can possibly be. The camp’s philosophy states that they believe in personal attention for each player, both on and off the courts, and that the individual is the most important part of the camp and always will be. McCracken Camps is known as a teaching camp, offering instruction for the most advanced high school player to the younger player who is just learning the game, and it offers a Complete Skills Program with detailed instruction and drills in the skills necessary to be a complete basketball player, including an established program of detailed, personalized individual instruction, skill-appropriate drills, top competition in daily league games and scrimmages, and individual and group contests for awards.
Camp Director Todd German has been involved with The McCracken Basketball Camp for over 50 years as a camper, counselor, Assistant Camp Director, and Camp Director. He was a standout high school and college athlete from Bronson, Michigan, played basketball at Kalamazoo Valley Community College and Manchester College, and received his master’s degree from Western Michigan University. Coach Mark Anderson has been coaching at McCracken Basketball Camps for over 37 years, with experience coaching at the high school, club, college, and professional level. His career highlights include serving as an NBA D-League National Tryout Coach, Head Coach at Cuyahoga Community College where his team were 2004 National Champions, National Coach of the Year (NJCAA), Conference Champions and Conference Coach of the Year, UBA Eastern Conference Champion and Coach of the Year, Ohio Valley Basketball League Coach of the Year, Atlanta Elite Pro Showcase and International Pro Showcase Coach, and LA Summer Pro League Coach (Orlando Division). The leadership team includes Todd German as Camp Director and Owner/Director of McCracken Basketball Camp and Mark Anderson as a coach at McCracken Basketball Camps, and trained counselors work with campers and supervise all camp activities.
Overnight campers reside in dorms on campus and are assigned by age and roommate requests, and all meals are served in the school cafeteria. Room keys are available upon request at check-in time for a $20.00 deposit, which is refundable if the key is returned at check-out and forfeited if the key is lost. Extended day campers arrive after breakfast and stay until 9:45 pm, with lunch and dinner provided. All registered campers are required to have a parent or legal guardian fill out US Sports Camps’ mandatory Health & Release Forms online before arrival at camp, and the camp does not require a doctor’s signature on these forms. A detailed Information Packet containing check-in location and address, on-site staff contact information, a checklist of things to bring, site-specific forms, and more is emailed to all registered campers prior to camp. US Sports Camps offers a Peace of Mind Policy for cancellations. Nike is the title sponsor of the camps and has no control over the operation of the camps or the acts or omissions of US Sports Camps.
Last updated July 18, 2026.
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