By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
The Darting Basketball Academy held its second annual Community Give Back Shoe Drive Camp Wednesday at Topeka Collegiate School, raising more than 50 pairs of new basketball shoes to be distributed to local children.
Kerry Darting instructs campers during Wednesday's DBA Community Give Back Shoe Drive Camp at Topeka Collegiate School. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
The Darting Basketball Camp raised more than 50 pairs of new basketball shoes for local children in Wednesday's Community Give Back camp. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
Former local high school standouts and city coaches served as instructors for Wednesday's camp, which included 51 boys and girls participants who all donated a new pair of sneakers to be distributed by the Topeka non-profit group Sole Reason.
"Everybody brought a pair and we even had some families that didn't have a kid here who brought in a pair of shoes,'' DBA's Kerry Darting said. "We're probably about 60, 70 pairs of shoes, which is really good.
"(Sole Reason) is going to come pick them up and they distribute them throuhout the Topeka schools.''
Darting said DBA plans to continue to making the Community Give Back Shoe Drive Camp an annual event.
"The kids have fun and they're able to help the community so it's a really good thing over the holidays to do for the community,'' Darting said.
If interested in donating a pair of sneakers, email Kerry Darting at
