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The Kings of Summer Camps
 Coach Paul Webb (left), with his son Eddie Webb, continue to direct basketball camps for kids across the Hampton Roads areas each and every summer. Between them, they have more than 60 years of experience directing summer, winter, and team camps.
Paul Webb started into the camp business in 1965 while he was the coach at Randolph-Macon College. His first camp was at Randolph-Macon, attracted 36 campers and cost $35 per camper. Since then, Webb's been able to attract such NBA stars as Moses Malone, Alonzo Mourning, Mark West, Ralph Sampson, Bryant Stith, J.R. Reid, Grant Hill and many, many others to teach and to entertain some 800 to 1000 campers a summer.
 After stepping down as head coach at Old Dominion University, Webb began his camps in Hampton Roads. He stated that he wanted the suburban kids to have more choices for summer camps. Now Webb's camps are the most popular in the Hampton Roads area. "Paul is one of the best I know at developing summer camps," said Jim Jarrett, Athletic Director at Old Dominion University. As long as he's done basketball camps, and as long as he continues, Paul Webb's basketball camps will continue to be successful. That is why he is acknowledged in Hampton Roads as the King of Summer Camps!
19 years ago, Coach Paul Webb stepped down as head coach of the Old Dominion Monarchs. In 10 years at ODU, Webb won 196 games, took ODU from Division II into Division I, made 4 trips to the NCAA tournament and 5 trips to the NIT tournament. He became the 2nd all-time winningest college basketball coach in Virginia. His teams upset Georgetown, Syracuse, Virginia (twice), Clemson, and No. 1-ranked DePaul. He is now retired and spends much of his spare time planning his summer camps. "I've enjoyed myself since retiring," said Webb. "I'm still active, but I've got time to do the things I didn't used to have time for. I'm able to travel, I have a wonderful wife and family. I couldn't ask for more."
 Coach Eddie Webb (right) has been the President of the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in Portsmouth, Virginia since 1995. Under Webb's guidance, the museum has made tremendous progress across the state featuring legendary athletes such as Ralph Sampson, Nancy Lieberman-Cline, Sam Snead, and Arthur Ashe, Jr. Coach Eddie Webb graduated from  Randolph-Macon College with a degree in sociology, and from Old Dominion University with a master's in education.
Since then, he's coached college basketball for 20 years at several colleges and universities. (Randolph-Macon College - 2 years, University of Wyoming - 1 year, Old Dominion University - 7 years, and Virginia Commonwealth University - 10 years. But most importantly, he's been directing the summer camps with Coach Paul Webb for over 30 years.
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