NIACC basketball teams help out Kirkwood coach

NIACC women's basketball player Khalilah Holloway helps at the skills clinic Sunday in the NIACC recreation center.
NIACC women's basketball player Khalilah Holloway helps at the skills clinic Sunday in the NIACC recreation center.
January 7, 2018

MASON CITY - The NIACC men's and women's basketball teams are holding a skills clinic on Sunday in the NIACC recreation center to help raise money for Kirkwood assistant men's basketball coach Ben Jacobson, who is battling brain cancer.

NIACC women's basketball coach Todd Ciochetto is running the clinic and he will be assisted by member's of the NIACC men's and women's teams.

The clinic is open to any boy or girl in grades K-12.

The kindergarten through third-grade clinic will run from 11 a.m. to noon. The fourth through sixth grade clinic will go from noon to 1:30 p.m. and the seventh through 12th grade clinic will go from 1:30-3 p.m.

Free will donations will be accepted and all proceeds will go to help Jacobson, who is in his fifth season as an assistant coach for the Kirkwood men's basketball program.

If anyone can't attend the clinic, but would still like to make a donation, send check to Ciochetto at 500 College Drive, Mason City, Iowa, 50401.