Dear Campers, Coaches, and Families,

We are excited to announce that the WBC is back on this summer and even more excited that it's the 40th year of WBC!

July 2025 will feature two weeks of camps once again, this time at Aden Bowman. The MINI camp is scheduled for July 8th-11th and the BANTAM/SR camp is set for July 14th-18th.

REGISTRATION is now CLOSED. Send an email to wildwoodbballcamp@hotmail.ca if you'd like to be added to the waitlist!

Can't wait to see you there!

Sincerely,

The WBC Staff

The Wildwood Basketball Camp wasn’t so much created as it evolved.

That’s the conclusion my family and I came to when our family was asked to do a little write up about how WBC got started 40 years ago. For us, WBC was always just there and was a summer highlight for our kids (Scott, Kirk and Tracey) and now in the lives of our grandkids (Bridgette, Madeleine and Zoe).

It started, as most good things in my life did, with the germ of an idea in the brain of Bill Gordon. For his entire life, Bill loved teaching, coaching and interacting with kids. Back in 1985, he was also looking for things to keep our kids, their cousins and friends busy in the summer.

As a teacher, he had access to a gym at Wildwood School and as a coach, he had some skills. So, he thought, why not run a basketball camp? One of Bill’s other great traits is that he was NEVER shy about asking for help.

Fortunately, Bill was surrounded by amazing people with similar interests and priorities who were willing to jump in with both feet when he had an idea. The bonus was they also had coaching skills that complemented his own and also filled in the gaps for things like: creativity, record keeping, scheduling, and all those other mundane tasks.

Over the years, so many individuals have been an integral part of this team. If I start naming them all, I know I will forget someone – so just know that if you have been involved in this adventure – as an organizer, coach or volunteer – you have made a difference and we are so grateful that you shared your time and expertise with us.

I will, however, recognize that there are four families without whom this camp would not have survived for the past 40 years. The Jays, the Dawes, the Dewars and the George Kosmos family from the Cave are as key to WBC as Bill was. These families were there in some capacity.

From the beginning, the focus of the camp was to provide kids with a fun place to learn a game they could play for a lifetime. They focused not just on skills, but on building good little people in the process. It’s a formula that his team fully embraced.

WBC was never a money maker and still isn’t to this day. It has provided fun and skill development for campers, a sense of personal fulfillment for instructors, and a part time job for talented young athletes over the years. It is a family tradition for many with literally generations of families working their way through the camp as participants, coaches and organizers.

- Marg Gordon (Co-Founder of WBC)