( ENSPIRE Sports ) Basketball Without Borders Gives the Top Players Professional Basketball Training for College Scouting
ENSPIRE Contributor: Jack Rich
From July 17th to July 19th, 2025, 40 of the nation’s top high school-age female basketball players gathered in Indianapolis for the third annual Basketball Without Borders Global Women’s camp. This is a camp designed by Basketball Without Borders in collaboration with the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) to bring high school players into contact with professional players and coaches. This year, some of these players and coaches included Georgia Amoore, Tonya Edwards, Kelly Faris, and Andrea Gardner-Williams. Allison Feaster, Vice President of Team Operations and Organizational Growth for the Boston Celtics, served as the camp’s director.
With the guidance of these basketball veterans, the high schoolers went through a series of drills and other activities, such as leadership development sessions, to improve both their technical skills and their teamwork skills in time for scouting. To increase their chances of getting offers, scouts and coaches were also invited to this camp. They did the same last year, which saw 34 campers receive National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I scholarship offers.
Since its inception in 2001, Basketball Without Borders has staged 77 camps across 33 countries and six continents. It has partnered with brands like Nike, which outfitted this year’s campers with Nike gear, and it has reached more than 4,500 campers. 127 of these alumni went on to play in the NBA or WNBA, some of these alumni including Gorgui Dieng, Kelly Olynyk, Joel Embiid, and Awak Kuier.
The Basketball Without Borders camp is an opportunity for the top high school basketball players to rise even further with professional training and experience. Its alumni remember it as a formative experience in their basketball career, with Joel Embiid saying that the camp “helped [him] to stay true to [himself]” due to the “conversations or words of advice” he remembers receiving. Whatever the alumni end up doing, the camp’s track record makes it impressive enough just to have been invited. It will certainly be exciting for any basketball fan to see where they go from here.
If you’d like to learn more about BWB, you can click on their website here. If you’d like to keep up with them, you can follow BWB on Instagram or YouTube. You can also use #BWBGlobal on Facebook, X, or Instagram to see what people have to say about them.
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