The KSA Tradition

Founded in Monticello, New York in 1968 by Milton Kutsher and legendary college basketball coach Clair Bee, Kutsher's Sports Academy was the first camp to offer an entirely elective sports program. The camp became coed in 1973 and offered instruction in all sports to campers ages 7-17. KSA was known as the hotbed of basketball in summertime, as the NBA benefit Maurice Stokes Game was held on its campus throughout the 70's, 80's and 90's. Annual visitors and clinicians at KSA included the likes of Wilt Chamberlain, Walt Frazier, Julius Erving and Pete Maravich. In fact, the first meeting between NBA legends Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul Jabbar (then Lew Alcindor) took place at the Maurice Stokes Game at Kutsher's.

In 2004 longtime Directors Marc & Caroline White, employed with the camp since 1980 and 1984 respectively, took over ownership of the camp. They leased the property from the Kutsher family for a number of years, then in 2008 moved the camp to its present site on Lake Buel in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusets. Today the camp is as popular as ever, and in 2010 a brand new 20,000 sf field house was erected which is named "Legends Hall" and pays tribute to the history of Kutsher's Sports Academy.