Don Showalter

Head Coach, Iowa City High School

Director, Snow Valley Basketball Schools

2011-12 USA Developmental National Team
Head Coach

After leading the USA men to gold medals in the 2009 FIBA Americas U16 Championship and the 2010 FIBA U17 World Championship, USA Basketball on Jan. 11, 2011,  announced that Don Showalter, current head coach at Iowa City High School (Iowa) would return as head coach of the 2011-12 USA Men's Developmental National Team.

The three-time USA Basketball Developmental Coach of the Year picked up right where he left off -- by leading the 2011 USA U16 National Team to a 5-0 record and the gold medal at the 2011 FIBA Americas U16 Championship in Cancun, Mexico. The gold-medal finish secured the U.S. its spot in next summer’s FIBA U17 World Championship.

Showalter has turned in several gold-medal coaching performances for USA Basketball. In the summer of 2010, he led the USA to an 8-0 record and gold medal in the inaugural FIBA U17 World Championship for Men in Hamburg, Germany.

Tates Locke

 

Locke coached the Buffalo Braves in the NBA for half a season in 1976-77. Prior to his Buffalo experience, Locke coached for West Point, where he hired a young assistant coach named Bobby Knight. Knight would later replace Locke when Locke left West Point. After West Point, Locke moved onto Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He later coached at Clemson University. Jacksonville University where he took them to an NCAA berth and NIT berth. Locke would later become the head coach at Indiana State University and serve as a scout and assistant General Manager for the Portland Trail Blazers.

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Teaching basketball the way it's meant to be played

Published: Thursday, June 2, 2011 at 8:26 p.m.

All you have to do, and this is absolutely the only requirement, is find a spot inside the Rincon Valley Christian gym. That’s it. Tates Locke will take it from there. Do it any day, starting today, for the next six days. Just listen to Locke teach basketball to the kids at Chico Averbuck’s basketball academy.

Alan Stein

Professional Strength & Conditioning Coach
Specializing in Elite Level Basketball  

Alan Stein is the owner of Stronger Team and the Head Strength & Conditioning Coach for the nationally renowned, Nike Elite DeMatha Catholic High School basketball program.  He spent 7 years serving a similar position with the Montrose Christian basketball program. Alan brings a wealth of valuable experience to his training arsenal after years of extensive work with elite high school, college, and NBA players.

His passion, enthusiasm, and innovative training techniques make him the world's leading expert on productive training for basketball players.  Alan is a performance consultant for Nike Basketball as well as the head conditioning coach for the annual Jordan Brand All American Classic and the Nike Summer Skills Academies.  Alan is a Camp Coach at the prestigious NBA Players Association’s Top 100 Camp as well as the Chris Paul CP3 Elite Backcourt Camp. He served as the conditioning coach for the McDonald’s All American game for 5 years.
Alan has filmed over a dozen DVD’s on improving performance and is a sought after lecturer at basketball camps and clinics across the world. He has been featured in Winning Hoops, Time Out, Dime, SI.com, SLAMonline.com, American Basketball Quarterly, Stack, Men’s Health, HOOP, and FIBA Assist Magazine. 

Jim Boone

Delta State University
Head Men's Basketball Coach 

Phone: 662-846-4461
Email: jboone@deltastate.edu
Twitter:  @coachjimboone 

Jim Boone is in his first season as head coach of the Delta State University Statesman Basketball program.  Boone (438-328), a native of Winfield, W.V., brings 27 years of collegiate coaching experience to Delta State, including stops at the NCAA Division I and II levels.  His career record speaks to his success on the hardwood, but his real niche has been at the NCAA DII level where he has posted a blistering 338-166 mark as a head coach.  

Prior to taking over as head coach of the Statesmen, Boone spent the 2011-12 season as head coach at West Virginia Wesleyan College, guiding the Bobcats to a school record 22 wins at the DII level and the program's first ever NCAA Division II Regional Tournament Championship appearance.

Jeff Janssen, M.S.

Janssen Sports Leadership Center Founder and President

North Carolina, Michigan, Illinois, and Razorback Leadership Academy Director

Widely considered one of the world's top experts on Sports Leadership, Jeff Janssen is the founder and president of the Janssen Sports Leadership Center.

Jeff's pioneering work on sports leadership development with student-athletes and coaches has led to the creation of cutting edge Leadership Academies at North Carolina, Michigan, Illinois, Arkansas, Notre Dame, Pitt, Yale, Georgetown, Stanford, Wake Forest, Baylor, Houston, Colgate, Lafayette, Holy Cross, George Washington, Colby, St. Francis Xavier, Winston-Salem State, and Lehigh.

A prolific author, he has authored numerous books including The Team Captain's Leadership Manual,Championship Team Building, Jeff Janssen's Peak Performance Playbook, How to Develop Relentless Competitors, and The Seven Secrets of Successful Coaches.

Doug Diers

Doug Diers operates camps and clinics throughout the state and is fast becoming one of the premier shooting clinicians in Iowa. He has made an impact in the lives of over 5000 kids in the first 6 years of Shoot-It. Doug not only helps them with basketball, but has an emotional connection with kids. He genuinely wants to see them succeed in sports and life. He coaches, referees, gives motivational talks, and raises 4 children with his wife Jen.

 Shoot-It Basketball Academy