Summer is basketball camp season for area high schools.

Youths wishing to participate in one of the local camps can have their pick of camps being run by the three Moore County public high schools over the same dates in mid-June.Union Pines

Union Pines High School will hold its annual Viking Basketball Camp June 14-17 at Bob Ward Gymnasium.

The camp, the longest running one of its kind in the area, is open to rising third- through ninth-grade boys and girls and will be led by Union Pines boys’ coach Bobby Purvis and girls’ coach John Lewkowicz along with Viking assistant coaches and players. There will also be daily speakers.

“We have been doing this for over 30 years,” said Purvis. “It is an individual skills camp with the goal being first and foremost for the campers to have lots of fun, while developing fundamental basketball skills and also increasing their overall knowledge of the sport.”The camp runs each day from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The fee per camper is $40, and each camper will receive a T-shirt.Participants can register early by sending a check or money order to Union Pines Basketball, attention Bobby Purvis, 1981 Union Church Road, Cameron, NC, 28326. On-site registration will be held on Monday, June 14, from 8 to 8:30 a.m.