Local basketball skills trainers win YouTube prize

The Curtiss family is well known in Santa Cruz County as Mr.'s Basketball in the area and now YouTube has recognized them:

Curtiss family wins $35,000 prize from YouTube for Shot Science videos
Ryan Moses
Santa Cruz Sentinel
5/03/2011

What started as a fun project to share his family's love of basketball has turned into a full-time job for Soquel's Casey Curtiss -- a job he's now getting paid for.

YouTube selected Curtiss' online instructional basketball video series, called Shot Science, as one of 25 winners of the website's inaugural Next Up contest Monday. The contest is designed to help promote the talents and careers of some of YouTube's best video producers. Each of the winners will travel to New York later this month to attend the first YouTube Creator Camp for training and mentoring on how to build the brand, and receive a $35,000 grant to spend on their projects...

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Here is the trio's Shot Science site.