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It was basketball mania for many Marco Island kids this summer.

Six boys alone attended 41 camps overall, with some going to the same camps. Sommer Adams was no slouch for the girls, attending basketball, running, volleyball and tumbling camps.

Jared Jackson was the basketball camp king, attending 14 camps. Kyle Adams went to eight camps; Stefan Langebeeke and Jack Hodges, six each; Wesley Lancaster and William Bott, four camps and Sommer Adams, six.

A Marco Island team topped the Naples YMCA League. On the 12-year-old team were Jackson, Langebeeke, Lancaster, Bott, Hodges, Alonso Lora, Nick Dotson, AJ Labrador, Steven Schneider and Xavier Vecchio.

Langebeeke and Jackson made two All-Star teams at the Five Star and Ten Star Camps in Orlando. Between the two camps they played more than 30 games, plus instruction in two weeks. They, and others, also went to the camp at Florida Gulf Coast University.

They all attended the Roger Raymond basketball and running camps. Raymond is the athletic director at Marco Island Charter Middle School, who coaches cross country, basketball and track.

The city ran two camps, fundamental basketball and advanced. New Winning Ways camps at Lely High and St. John Neumann saw many of these players.

“As much as Kyle loves basketball he and others don’t practice on their own,” mom Laura Adams said. “If you want to be good you have to work at it.”

Jackson also is proactive on camps.

“I liked all the camps this summer,” he said. “Five Star was the best camp and Orlando Magic. The only camp that I do not want to go back to is FGCU, it was just okay. My summer was all basketball every week. It was fun. I would do it again, but I would like two weeks before school starts instead of one week. Basketball is flippin’ awesome.”