This summer Ocracoke seventh grader Joseph Contreras represented Tideland EMC at the Carolina Basketball Camp on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill. The five-day residential camp is lead by head coach Hubert Davis.

The first night, campers are divided into age groups. From there they are placed onto teams with about 8–10 campers. Each team has a coach. A typical day for campers starts with breakfast at 8 a.m. Then they are bused to their respective gyms for morning instruction (fundamentals). They return for lunch and have about an hour of free time. They are then bused back to the Smith Center for the afternoon clinic, where university coaches or former players will talk about offensive/defensive philosophies and touch on the finer points of basketball. After dinner campers are bused out to their gyms for evening games and then it’s lights out by 11 p.m.

Joseph is the son of Oscar Rubio Contreras and Lucile Uribe.