CSKA has opened a new season participating in the joint social program of the Euroleague and the clubs – One Team in Moscow. We continue to cooperate with the Boarding School of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
We remind you that the board school is for daughters of military personnel who are serving in remote military garrisons, also from single-parent and large families, the children of deceased military men and combatants who have been awarded state awards for performing military duty.
As a special guest in this debut master class, the girls where visited by CSKA forward and the MVP of the “Final Four” of the Euroleague 2018/19 season – Will Clyburn. The older group of cadets was lucky to receive the first lesson. Since Will is recovering from an injury, plus all participants had to gradually get involved in the process and recall the training format, it was decided to devote the first clinic to playing games. For one of them, the project coach Yakov Tarasov divided the girls into two groups and suggested combining the game “Crocodile” with a relay race. Will helped his team guess words: and it is interesting that no problems came up concerning the language barrier. Our forward gladly tried to guess on par with everyone, however, in cases of defeat, Clyburn used his “advantage” and did not run shuttles along with everyone. Participants strengthened their social skills, actively supported each other in each exercise, and strove to do everything without errors, carefully listening to each other’s advice.
At the end of the master class, the cadets took all possible trophies which they have received during their studies in the boarding school to the Euroleague champion. Will autographed sneakers, scarves, put his signature in notebooks and regular books, and took pictures with everyone for a very long time.
