WATERLOO, Ont. - This summer, youth basketball players in Waterloo Region have the chance to learn from two members of the Golden Hawk's men's basketball coaching staff with Laurier basketball's co-ed basketball skills sessions.

Available for kids aged 10-17, the sessions will run once weekly from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Taking place at the Athletic Complex on Laurier's Waterloo campus, the sessions will use two courts, providing room for up to thirty players per session. Each session will be run by Golden Hawks men's Assistant Coach and Player Development Coordinator Chuder Teny and Assistant and Player Development Coach Nikola Saric.

Teny is a Kitchener native and co-founder of WhyNotYou Basketball. He played five seasons with the Golden Hawks, scoring over 1,700 points across 96 OUA regular season games.

Saric is the Head of Player Development with the Waterloo Wolverines Basketball Academy and runs Never Stop Basketball, which provides elite basketball skills development and training.

The Tuesday sessions will begin May 31 and end June 28. The Thursday sessions will run from June 2 until June 30, with the fourth session taking place on Wednesday, June 22.

The cost to register is $180 for five sessions on either Tuesdays or Thursdays, while single drop-ins are available for $40 per session. 

There are only 30 spots available for each session, so be sure to register soon.