WINSTON-SALEM -- More than 170 kids laced up their tennis shoes and hit the hardwood for the Skip Prosser Basketball School. It's a weeklong camp at Wake Forest University to teach kids the ins and outs of basketball. Even though it's been only days since Coach Prosser died, organizers say he would have wanted the camp to continue.

Mitch Fortesque was up bright and early Monday morning to watch his sons play basketball.

“Well, I hope they love it. I love it. I grew up in [Winston-Salem] and played in the same camp as a kid at Wake Forest, my brother did too and so they love it too and they've enjoyed it. They’re young but they're enjoying the game so far,” Fortesque said.

He points out enjoying basketball means learning about it and he says they get that at the Skip Prosser Basketball School.

“Well through the next week we are going to do a lot of teaching. That was always big for Coach Prosser, and it's a teaching camp; matter of fact, he called it the Skip Prosser Basketball School, and we want to make these guys better players and not only just better players but hopefully they'll leave a little bit of a better person,” said Mike Muse, the camp’s director.

Muse adds he can't think of a better way to honor Prosser's memory than teaching more than 170 kids to love the game of basketball.

“He loved kids, and he made camp a special thing to open and close camp and be here as much as he could, and we just felt that there were 170 kids that wanted to be here and Coach just loves that," Muse said. "When we met with Mrs. Prosser, she was insistent that we go on and honor him this week by having camp."

Muse says the next week will be spent getting down to business.

“He wouldn't want us making a big fuss and he'd want us teaching basketball and coaching and making these kids better players and that's our mission this week to do that, Muse said.

Fortesque says this year the camp is particularly special.

“Coach was a good man and I grew up a Wake fan. Obviously we hurt for the whole Wake Forest community and for Winston-Salem,” Fortesque explained.

The camp is open to all kids from first grade through ninth grade. The students are broken up into three groups where they work on drills like dribbling and shooting.