Former NDSU Hoops Star Vinnie Shahid Returns to Fargo to Host Camps

SHAHID HELD TWO DAYS OF CAMPS AT SHOOT360 IN FARGO.

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR)–The summer time brings basketball camps and former athletes returning to the F-M area to give back to the community that supported them. Recently, North Dakota’s own and current Alabama basketball star Grant Nelson held a camp at Shoot360 in Fargo. This week, another former Bison made his way through the facility.

Vinnie Shahid held two days of camps at Shoot360 in Fargo this week. Shahid was a guard at NDSU for two seasons. In his final year during the 2019-2020 season he averaged a team-high 18.4 points per game and led the Bison to a Summit League Tournament title, but of course, that was the year of the pandemic, so no NCAA tournament. Shahid says he loves being back in Fargo.

“It feels good, you know,” said Shahid. “It is always nice to come back and see the community and feel the love that I used to get in college and still get to this day. It means a lot to me to be able to give back and do that for the community and be around the kids.”

For Shoot360 owners Katie and Josh Johnson, they hope the campers get valuable tips to grow their game at their camps and say that getting Shahid to take part was a simple process.

“Our goal is always for kids to just fall in love with the game of basketball and to walk away feeling excited about not only the sport itself, but also to grow a little bit in confidence every time,” said Katie Johnson. “If they get some skills and some tips from Vinnie along the way that is just bonus.”

“We have always been a huge fan of him as a player and more now of the human being he has become,” said Josh Johnson. “He is probably the most generous and humble player that we have ever met. And he wants to do this for the kids. He asked us and we said whatever you need, we are willing to do it, whatever it takes for him to help the kids.”

For Shahid, after his playing days at NDSU, he has traveled the world playing professional basketball and says the Bison program prepared him well and he is doing what he loves.

“It helped me a lot, you know,” said Shahid. “It kind of gave me a foundation of who I am as a player and what players do at the next level that is successful, so, I think it had a huge part of who I am as a player and who I am as a person. I have played four years overseas. I started my first year in Luxembourgh. My second year in France. Third year in Iceland and fourth year in Italy. So, I have kind of been all over the place, but I have been able to travel and get paid to do what I love, so it has been nothing short of a blessing.”

Full overseas stats for Shahid can be found at the following website: https://www.proballers.com/basketball/player/178417/vincent-shahid