Hawaii Tribune-Herald · Jun 4, 2017
Basketball: Vulcan Camp goes old school
Editor’s note: Bill O’Rear is a former UH-Hilo all-district guard. He will coach in this summer’s Vulcan Camp, his 37th time working the event. He was the longtime sports editor at the Tribune-Herald before retiring in 2014.
At 82, former University of Hawaii at Hilo basketball coach Jimmy Yagi has traveled the world teaching youngsters how to play basketball and share life lessons.
And in more than 60 years of coaching at camps in the United States, Europe, Australia and the Far East, the one camp that remains closest to his heart is the one he helped start in the mid 1970s — the Vulcans-Hawaii Basketball School, aka “Vulcan Camp.”