Camp Director

Pete Rivas

In his 13 years with Nike Basketball Camps and Snow Valley Basketball Schools, Rivas has worked with thousands of boys and girls helping them reach their full potential. He works with campers at every level at the Nike Basketball Camps and focuses on intermediate to advanced campers at the Snow Valley Basketball Schools overnight programs in Santa Barbara, CA. Rivas is known as a skills and team developer for local high schools in Southern California.

Prior to Buena Park High School, he started on at Fairmont Preparatory Academy where he helped build a small school power as Head Varsity Assistant Girls Basketball Coach in 2008. Under his lead, the girls won ten straight league titles, one CIF Championship and one CIF appearance, and he has traveled all over the world to work with high school and club basketball players. Every summer teams travel from different countries to work with Rivas and staff.

In 2005, he started The Works Basketball Academy to focus on high quality instruction for youth basketball players from all over Southern California. Rivas continues his passion for youth basketball with The Works Basketball Academy to this day.

Before focusing on camps in Southern California, Rivas directed Nike Basketball Camps in Las Vegas, Nevada and Boise, Idaho.

Coach Rivas began his coaching career in 1980 as an assistant at Bishop Amat High School and continued on to be an assistant coach at University of California, Irvine.