Doc Robinson basketball camp in Selma cancelled
Published 9:41 pm Friday, June 19, 2015
A planned basketball camp in Selma featuring former Saints and Auburn Tigers legend Doc Robinson has been cancelled.
The camp was scheduled for June 26-27 for first graders through twelfth graders, but Selma boys basketball coach Woodie Jackson said it was cancelled after Robinson was injured in a car wreck earlier this month.
Jackson said Robinson’s condition is improving but that it would be unlikely he could hold the camp over the summer months.
“He is doing much better,” Jackson said. “He’s out of the woods now as far as physical condition, but he’s still in the hospital and he will be unable to do the camp.”
Robinson led Selma High to the class 6A state championship in 1994.
He is the only All-American to play at Selma High School and won Alabama’s Gatorade Player of the Year award in 1996. He was a highly touted recruit at Selma before signing with Auburn.
Robinson was a member of the winningest senior class in Auburn history with 85 victories. He led the Tigers to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament during the 1998-1999 season and was inducted into Auburn’s Tiger Trail in April 2014.
Robinson now works in logistics in Atlanta.
“I wish I could get back more [to Selma],” Robinson said after being inducted into the Tiger Trail in 2014.
“I stay in touch with everything through my parents, my mom and dad, and some of my relatives that are still there, so I still have my fingers on the pulse.”