Juli Fulks returns to host our always popular Nike Girls Basketball Camp at Lewis & Clark College.  Located on 137 picturesque acres in southwest Portland, Lewis and Clark College is the perfect place for camp. Campers will reside in the dormitories on campus and practice and play each day in the Pamplin Sports Center, the home court of the Pioneers.

Coach Fulks is in her sixth season as the head women’s basketball coach and an instructor in the Physical Education Department at Lewis & Clark College. Fulks took a 1-15 team in 04-05 and turned it into one of the twenty most-improved teams in the country in 05-06 and to a playoff contender in 2006-07.

For the past three years, Fulks has been a volunteer coach with the Understand the Game program, founded by former NBA All-Star Detlef Schrempf. Working with the US State Department, this basketball diplomacy exchange program that promotes positive aspects of American culture around the world and has taken Fulks to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in September 2005 and to Rabat, Morocco in August 2006 to work with local youth basketball camps.

 

Fulks came to Lewis & Clark for the 2004-05 basketball season from NCAA Division III Defiance College (Defiance, Ohio). With Fulks as an assistant coach, the Defiance Yellow Jackets finished the 2003-04 campaign with a 20-7 record, eight games better than their 2002-03 finish. The Yellow Jackets ranked in the top ten in the nation in team field goal and free throw shooting percentages. Fulks also served as assistant softball coach, guiding her team to its first NCAA tournament appearance in school history in 2004.