Frank Kaminsky
& Sam Dekker

ProStart

Basketball
Camp

Sports Enhancement Academy

Stoughton, WI

About
Frank Kaminsky
Frank Kaminsky is an American professional basketball player for the Charlotte Hornets of the NBA. He previously played four years of college basketball for the Wisconsin Badgers, where he set the Wisconsin single-game record for points (43). He was the unanimous men’s National College Player of the Year in 2015.

Ahead of the 2014 season, Kaminsky was named the Big Ten preseason player of the year. The Badgers were unanimously picked to win the Big Ten Championship. The Badgers and Kaminsky validated those predictions. The Badgers had a 36-3 record in games Kaminsky played. They won the Big Ten regular season title with a 16-2 record and the Big Ten tournament title. After becoming the first NCAA tournament 1-seed in school history, they made their way to their second consecutive Final Four. There, they avenged their previous season’s loss to Kentucky, upsetting the 38-0 Wildcats 71-64 behind Kaminsky’s 20 points and 11 rebounds. In the Badgers’ first national championship game in 74 years, they lost a 9-point second-half lead and were defeated 68-63 by the Duke Blue Devils. Kaminsky finished with 21 points and 12 rebounds. For the season, he finished with 18.8 PPG and 8.2 RPG, despite playing for a team that ranked 346th out of 351 in adjusted tempo. He led the nation in PER, an efficiency-based stat. Wisconsin boasted the highest adjusted offensive efficiency in KenPom history.

Kaminsky was named consensus first-team All-American. On March 31, 2015, he was named the National Association of Basketball Coaches Player of the Year. On April 3 he was named Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year, the first Wisconsin player to receive the award since its creation in 1961. He also received the Oscar Robertson Trophy as the United States Basketball Writers Association College Player of the Year. On April 5, he was named the Naismith College Player of the Year. On April 10, he won both the John R. Wooden Award and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year Award. On June 12 Kaminsky was named University of Wisconsin’s Male Athlete of the Year.
About
Sam Dekker
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