Former VUU basketball player out to help others
RTD has a neat article on Raymond Neblett, a former VUU basketball player who spent 14 years in jail for armed robbery. After leaving jail, Neblett began working for Y-CAPP (Youth Challenged Advised And Positively Promoted) helping run a youth basketball program. Neblett has been an in-house counselor in a group home, facilitated therapy groups and […]
RTD has a neat article on Raymond Neblett, a former VUU basketball player who spent 14 years in jail for armed robbery. After leaving jail, Neblett began working for Y-CAPP (Youth Challenged Advised And Positively Promoted) helping run a youth basketball program.
Neblett has been an in-house counselor in a group home, facilitated therapy groups and chaperoned children to sporting events. Now, he works at Armstrong High School as a one-to-one counselor. He also helps coach the Armstrong boys basketball team. But Neblett’s passion, and the opportunity for which he is most thankful, is Inner City Basketball. Last summer, Neblett organized what he hopes will be the first of many Inner City Basketball camps.
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“Every day at 1 p.m., we held ‘Manhood 101.’ Every day, we had a different speaker. Someone from the police department spoke. Someone from the Army spoke. George Lancaster [Highland Springs boys coach] and Dave Robbins [former Virginia Union men’s coach] spoke.” Neblett insisted the camp be free so parents would not have to worry about finding $400 or $500 to pay for a week of camp.
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