All boys. All boarding. Grades 9-12.

Basketball Camp Details and Registration

Building Confidence On and Off the Court

Register here for basketball camp!

Can't wait until next summer! 
Save the Date: July 22-26, 2027
Boys ages 9-16
$725

Need-based financial aid is available for this camp. To learn more about financial aid options, please email wfs_camp@woodberry.org.

Woodberry Forest Basketball Camp is a teaching camp built around a simple belief: we don't care how good you are when you arrive. We care about who you are willing to become while you're here.

Campers of all experience levels will be challenged to improve their individual skills, learn new concepts, compete, and play the game together. But improvement isn't always comfortable. Sometimes it means trying something you're not good at yet. Sometimes it means making mistakes, accepting coaching, and having the courage to try again.

We believe young people grow by doing hard things.

Our coaches will create an environment where campers are expected to work with intention, compete with enthusiasm, encourage one another, and find joy in the process of getting better. We want every camper to leave Woodberry with greater confidence in his game — and greater confidence in his ability to learn, respond to challenges, and grow.

Basketball is what brings us together for the week. Who our campers become through it is what matters most.

What to Bring

  • Shorts, T-shirts, and socks
  • Blanket, pillow, and sheets for a twin bed
  • Basketball Shoes
  • Bathing Suit
  • Towels and washcloth
  • Toiletries
  • Book for down time in dorm

Basketball Camp Photo Gallery

Click here to see the full 2026 photo gallery.

Lawrence "Puff" Summers '01, Head Varsity Basketball Coach & Basketball Camp Director


Lawrence “Puff” Summers ’01 returned to Woodberry Forest in 2026 as the school’s head varsity basketball coach and basketball program director.

A Woodberry graduate, Summers continued his basketball career at Davidson College before embarking on a professional playing career that took him overseas for nearly two decades. He spent much of that time in Ireland, where he also worked extensively in coaching, player development, and youth basketball, which included extensive work with both senior and underage Irish National Teams. 

His approach to camp reflects the same philosophy that guides the Woodberry basketball program: growth matters more than where a player begins. Campers will be challenged to learn new skills, compete, make mistakes, respond to coaching, and become comfortable doing things they may not be good at yet.

Summers believes basketball can teach young people far more than how to play the game. The goal is for every camper to leave Woodberry a better player — but, more importantly, more confident, resilient, and willing to take on hard things.

Our campers will get better, and if they embrace the process of improving, this week will change how they see themselves and how they approach the game. 

    • Lawrence “Puff” Summers ’01

Woodberry Forest School is an exceptional private school community for high school boys in grades nine through twelve. It is one of the top boarding schools in the United States and one of the only all-boys, all-boarding schools in the country.
Woodberry Forest, VA 22989
Phone: 540-672-3900

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Woodberry Forest admits students of any race, color, sexual orientation, disability, religious belief, and national or ethnic origin to all of the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sexual orientation, disability, religious belief, or national or ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic or other school-administered programs. The school is authorized under federal law to enroll nonimmigrant students.