North Carolina’s Touchstone Energy Cooperatives are awarding middle-school students full scholarships to attend basketball camp on college campuses this summer.

Young men can apply to attend the Roy Williams Basketball Camp June 17–21 at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and young women can apply to attend the Wolfpack Women’s Basketball Camp June 11–14 at NC State University in Raleigh.

“I was so thrilled to get the chance to be a part of such a prestigious camp,” said Rex Hardy of Wilmington, a participant in the 2015 Sports Camp. He went on to make his middle school basketball team, which had an undefeated season last year (“Viewpoints,” May 2016). “I attribute part of this success to the camp I was able to attend last summer. It helped give me confidence and increase my focus on the fundamentals of the game.”

Campers will stay in dorms and work with the coaches, and current and former players at the overnight camps. Students who are currently in fifth, sixth or seventh grade are eligible to apply. (NCAA rules prohibit scholarships to students who will be in ninth grade next year (currently eighth graders) as they are considered prospects.)

Statewide, more than 50 students will receive Touchstone Energy Sports Camp scholarships this year. Interested students can download scholarship applications, due March 31, 2017, at ncelectriccooperatives.com.