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Basketball: "It's a game of finesse, a coordination
of intellect and athleticism, of
harmony of mind and body. It's the
synthesis in sport of intelligence, precision, courage,
audacity,
anticipation, teamwork, elegance, and grace."
- Carl Sagan
Camp Director: Dewey Burke
Dewey Burke
graduated with honors from Conestoga HS in 2002 and
originally attended Fairfield University to play
wide receiver on the football team. He transferred to the
University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill after one year when Fairfield
discontinued its football program. But a UNC acceptance letter
wasn't enough for Burke. For a kid who picked up a basketball before he
could even walk, being a Tar Heel student
wasn
't enough. He wanted in on the action. So he did what few other first-year students do when
they enter the UNC campus: spent hours a day in the gym shooting hundreds
of shots, lifting weights and running alone in the gym. With his classes
in between, his workouts became his daily routine, his obsession. His
life: "It was, and I don't want to
say psychotic, but whatever a notch below that is," he says .
"It was the most important thing in the world to me, other than my
family."
His efforts were worth it. After
two years as the point guard and leading scorer (18 points and 8 assists
per game) on the UNC junior varsity squad,
Burke was selected for the varsity in 2005. In his first varsity year he played in 11 games for a
team that exceeded every one's preseason expectations, coming in second in
the ACC and advancing to the second round of the NCAA tournament. At the
end of the season Dewey's hard work and contributions were rewarded with
the Foy
Roberson Award as the Most Inspirational Player as voted on by the coaches
and players.
In the 2006-07 season, Dewey played
in 21 games for the Tar Heels' team that went 33 and 6, were the ACC
Regular Season and Tournament
Champions, were
ranked #1 in the country for several weeks, were seeded #1 in the East
regional and eventually made it to the NCAA Elite Eight, losing in
overtime to Georgetown. During the season, Burke's popularity
soared. Through a promotion with the fast-food company Bojangles,
when UNC scored over 100 points in a home game, everyone with a ticket
stub could go to Bojangles for two sausage biscuits for $1. Burke
put the Tar Heels over 100 on three different occasions, and he will
always affectionately be remembered as "Biscuits." He started in the
final home game of the year against arch-rival Duke in the nationally
televised game that clinched the ACC Regular Season title. Once
again he received the Foy Roberson Award, one of only seven players in
North Carolina history to win the award twice.
"I learned so much about myself and
about life's lessons from my experiences at Carolina. I had to work
so hard for so long to finally accomplish my goals. It taught me
that what they say really is true: you can do anything you put your
mind to. I dared to dream. I remember when people laughed in
my face when I told them what I was trying to do. Very few outside
my family believed in me. Yes, I am less than six feet tall, and no,
I didn't ever dunk. I'll tell you what did do though; worked harder
than you can even imagine to earn my spot on that team. I deserved it. I
put in the hours in the weight room, running on the track
and shooting thousands and thousands of shots. I learned to eat right
and take care of my body. When my friends were going
out for drinks, I went back to gym to work more. I was consumed
by it. I paid the price, and it has changed my life
forever."
Burke graduated from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May, 2007 with a BA in Management and
a second major in Economics.
From his experience at UNC
Dewey knows what is required to take your game to the next level –
offensively, defensively, emotionally and physically. The knowledge that
he can share comes directly from the Carolina Family and the coaching and
playing philosophies of Dean Smith and Roy Williams,
as two of the most
successful coaches in basketball history
and both members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall
of Fame.
Currently
Dewey lives in Berwyn, PA and is involved a variety of different
ventures. In addition to being President of his own
company, Dewey Burke Management, LLC, he is a consultant and
scout for McClaren Sports (a sports agency based in Houston,
TX), Director of US Basketball for 22 Feet Sports Management (a firm based
in Cassagnes, France), and the Assistant Director of
Sky High Basketball
Camps
in southeastern
Pennsylvania.
LINKS
Sports Illustrated
Article
YouTube
Video
YouTube
Video #2
UNC Player
Article
2007 Senior
Day
UNC vs. Duke
Player
Profile
Camp Assistant Director: Coach John Jones
Coach Jones is the Varsity Girls Basketball
Coach and a Physical Education teacher at
Coach Jones spent three seasons as
an assistant for the women’s basketball team at
and 1,000 point scorer for Widener.
During Coach Jones’ 12 year tenure as Varsity Girls
Basketball Coach at Conestoga, he has enjoyed:
- 5
Central League
Championships
- 6 20+
win seasons
- 12
consecutive PIAA district playoff
appearances
- Named
"Coach of the Year" by the Philadelphia Inquirer and Main Line Life
newspapers
-
Devoted summers to developing youth basketball as director of
Coach Jones resides in Havertown with his wife and two daughters ages 7 and 8 yrs old.
