When giants roamed: Camp Wahoo put Hooville on the basketball map-- and it's back!
Fifty years ago, Gene Corrigan, then an assistant basketball coach at Washington and Lee University, decided he was too restless to take a three-month break.
"None of us had anything to do during the summer," says the man who was to become UVA athletic director and Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner. "So a few coaches and I had been talking about starting up a camp, and then Billy McCann [the basketball coach at UVA] called us all up and said we had the chance to do it out at Miller School."
So, in 1957, with head basketball coaches from UVA, VMI, and W&L, Corrigan founded Camp Wahoo, a two-week camp devoted to traditional camp activities like snipe hunts, singing songs, and all manner of athletics.
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