BUIES CREEK, N.C. – The Campbell Basketball School, a 30-minute documentary film by Devine Utley, will premier Friday, Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. in the Harris Student Union Theater on the Campbell University campus.
 
Admission is free and the public is invited to attend.
 
Utley, who earned her degree in documentary film studies from the University of Missouri, conducted interviews with many of the coaches and staff members who worked at the Campbell Basketball School, which in its heyday was the nation's largest summer basketball camp.
 
Danny Roberts, Billy Lee, Wanda Watkins, Jerry Smith, appear in the film, along with Fred Whitfield, M.L. Carr and Lisa Singletary, daughter of the Basketball School's co-founder.
 
Following the showing of the film, Coach Lee and Coach Watkins will participate in a panel discussion about the camp.
 
Founded in 1956 by Campbell head coach Fred McCall and Bones McKinney of Wake Forest, 125 boys attended the first camp in 1956.  Over the next 50 years, the camp grew to accommodate as many as 2000 youngsters in a summer.  At the time of its opening, the camp was the first of its kind to be held in North Carolina and one of the few in the United States.
 
Though the years, basketball immortals such as John Wooden, Bill Sharman, Dean Smith, Lefty Driesell, Dolph Schayes, Press and Pete Maravich, Michael Jordan and James Worthy appeared at the camp. 
 
Hall of Famer Pete Maravich attended the camp from age nine through 17.  He is one of at least seven of the NBA's Top 50 Legends to have appeared at the School.  A further sampling of NBA players who have appeared at the camp included M.L. Carr, Vinny Del Negro, Danny Ferry, Christian Laettner, John Lucas, Sam Perkins and Ralph Sampson.