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Clackamas Cage Camps offers basketball development camps for both individual players and teams. Camp activities include skill development in shooting mechanics, position strategy, ball handling, principles of defense, rebounding, physicality, and counterattacks. The program also works with teams on offensive and defensive strategy, numerical advantages, press defense, press-breaks, out-of-bounds plays, and defensive positioning.
Gus has been the camp director of Clackamas Cage Camps for over 20 years. He began his coaching career in 1981 at Glencoe High School boys basketball, where he served five years as an assistant coach and helped the team win its first state championship in 1983. Over the next eight years, he worked as a head varsity coach and assistant varsity coach at Oregon City, Estacada, Rex Putnam, and Clackamas high schools. As an assistant coach, he helped Rex Putnam win a league championship and reach the State Final Four in 1990, and he assisted Clackamas in earning a second-place finish in the 1994 state championships. As a head coach, he took Estacada to the state playoffs in 1989 and guided Clackamas High boys basketball from 1994 to 2005. Under his leadership, Clackamas teams earned league championships in 2001, 2002, and 2003, and he is the only coach in Clackamas history to win three consecutive league titles. Clackamas advanced to the State Championships in 9 of 11 years during his tenure, reaching the state playoffs in 1997, 1998, and 2004, the “Sweet Sixteen” in 1995, 1999, 2002, and 2003, the “Elite Eight” in 2001, and finishing third in state in 2003. In 2001 and 2002, he was named “Three Rivers League Coach of the Year,” and his record at Clackamas High is 212 wins and 88 losses. The leadership team is identified as Gus, Coach Gustovich, and Steven Gustovich. The program’s stated mission is “Play Better, Play Smarter.” Gus has traveled throughout the Northwest doing clinics and working with coaches of all levels.
One testimonial from Tamie Woginrich, Head Coach of Newberg Girls Basketball, states that Steven Gustovich has worked with her team by performing mini clinics, that players enjoy his style of teaching, and that he is one of a handful of people in Oregon to whom she would send her players for skill development. Another testimonial from Sydney Azorr, CHS Class of 2014 and WOU player, states that over six years of participating in Gus’s camps and clinics, her skills and fundamentals greatly improved, and she does not think she would have earned a college basketball scholarship without his help and training. A testimonial from parent Tony Mehalovich states that Coach Gustovich is an excellent coach for boys and girls at all levels, that many players lack basic fundamentals needed to play at higher levels, and that Coach Gustovich’s knowledge of the game and ability to identify and coach fundamentals are the best he has seen. This testimonial also states that Coach Gustovich inspires trust in parents by demonstrating concern for the kids he coaches and by volunteering his time to help kids grow, and that he is a positive example for the testimonial writer’s children.
Last updated March 28, 2026.
Gus has been the camp director of Clackamas Cage Camps for over 20 years. He began his coaching career in 1981 at Glencoe High School boys basketball, where he served five years as an assistant coach and helped the team win its first state championship in 1983. Over the next eight years, he worked as a head varsity coach and assistant varsity coach at Oregon City, Estacada, Rex Putnam, and Clackamas high schools. As an assistant coach, he helped Rex Putnam win a league championship and reach the State Final Four in 1990, and he assisted Clackamas in earning a second-place finish in the 1994 state championships. As a head coach, he took Estacada to the state playoffs in 1989 and guided Clackamas High boys basketball from 1994 to 2005. Under his leadership, Clackamas teams earned league championships in 2001, 2002, and 2003, and he is the only coach in Clackamas history to win three consecutive league titles. Clackamas advanced to the State Championships in 9 of 11 years during his tenure, reaching the state playoffs in 1997, 1998, and 2004, the “Sweet Sixteen” in 1995, 1999, 2002, and 2003, the “Elite Eight” in 2001, and finishing third in state in 2003. In 2001 and 2002, he was named “Three Rivers League Coach of the Year,” and his record at Clackamas High is 212 wins and 88 losses. The leadership team is identified as Gus, Coach Gustovich, and Steven Gustovich. The program’s stated mission is “Play Better, Play Smarter.” Gus has traveled throughout the Northwest doing clinics and working with coaches of all levels.
One testimonial from Tamie Woginrich, Head Coach of Newberg Girls Basketball, states that Steven Gustovich has worked with her team by performing mini clinics, that players enjoy his style of teaching, and that he is one of a handful of people in Oregon to whom she would send her players for skill development. Another testimonial from Sydney Azorr, CHS Class of 2014 and WOU player, states that over six years of participating in Gus’s camps and clinics, her skills and fundamentals greatly improved, and she does not think she would have earned a college basketball scholarship without his help and training. A testimonial from parent Tony Mehalovich states that Coach Gustovich is an excellent coach for boys and girls at all levels, that many players lack basic fundamentals needed to play at higher levels, and that Coach Gustovich’s knowledge of the game and ability to identify and coach fundamentals are the best he has seen. This testimonial also states that Coach Gustovich inspires trust in parents by demonstrating concern for the kids he coaches and by volunteering his time to help kids grow, and that he is a positive example for the testimonial writer’s children.
Last updated March 28, 2026.
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