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Our guest is Coach Willette White. Her coaching career spans 36 years, 26 years at Power 5 Universities.  She has served the student athlete as an assistant coach, associate head coach, head coach and director of admin and operations. We discuss her new program "Next Step" ,  a transitional coaching program that addresses the challenges, needs and adjustments student athletes have while they transition from high school student/athlete/life to college student/athlete/life. If your interested in Coach White's transitional coaching program NEXT STEP, Email: NextStepWW@gmail.comPhone: 541-632-3320Instagram @NextStepWWCoach White's coaching experience2013-2018 | Utah | Director of Administration and Operations2011-13 | Utah | Assistant Coach2006-09 | Oregon | Assistant Coach2001 | USA Basketball - U19 | Assistant Coach2000-06       | Northeastern               | Head Coach1993-2000 | UCLA | Associate Head Coach1985-93 | Washington | Assistant Coach1984-85 | Iowa State | Assistant Coach1982-84 | Ohio State | Graduate Assistant Coach

Cal Berkeley Bears assistant Coach April Philips expounds on her soon to be released book, "The Recruiting Blueprint" ( 6 Steps to Navigate Your Recruiting Process).  Before Cal Berkeley, Coach Phillips helped University of Arizona in 2018-2019 to a WNIT Championship.   Coach Phillips spent three seasons at LMU as an assistant and associate head coach her last year.  She was named to the WBCA Thirty under 30 in 2017 and 2018.  She won two Atlantic conference titles while a member of the Xavier Musketeers and made it to an Elite Eight appearance in 2010.Coach Phillips is well known for her ability to connect with prospective student athletes and recruit. Her Book, "The Recruiting Blueprint" can be pre-ordered @ www.HoopHaus.com Her twitter handle is @AP_Cali

Coach Davis sits down with us a talks about what he has seen change over the past 20 years in club basketball, what he looks for in recruits and advise to seniors still looking to be recruited while our country deals with a world wide pandemic. 

Mai-Loni Henson, 2020 graduate of University of Washington Huskies, #69 player in the country coming out of high school. Henson played for powerhouse high school program LaJolla Country Day, where she was teammates with NCAA all-time leading scorer, Kelsey Plum. She was a California 1st team All-State player. She played for the Washington Huskies who won 29 games and made the Sweet 16 following a Final Four appearance the year before. May-Loni has some great nuggets for young players dealing with adversity and getting ready for college. Currently she is preparing to play professional basketball overseas. 

Jess Finney is a long, versatile guard/perimeter player, one of the top recruits coming out of Arizona. She recently verbally committed to the University of Washington. Jess talks about her game, the challenges she faced this year in high school when her teammate (Boise State commit), Anna Ostlie went down with a season ending injury and why she chose Washington. 

Stedman is a highly recruited guard out of Arizona. She is an extremely hard worker, competitive and is a great teammate. She has fun playing the sport she loves and wants to continue playing at the collegiate level. She has offers from PacificSanta ClaraPepperdine NevadaSJSUDelawareGeorgetownUPennDenverUCSDLIUBall State

NAIA Hall of Fame Coach Russ Davis takes the mic to sit down with WNBA players Karlie and Katie Lou of the Dallas Wings. They talk about the things they did, would do differently or not do again in their transition as players from high school to college and college to the pros. Karlie played collegiate basketball for Stanford, played in two Final Fours and was a honorable mention all-American. Lou, an all-American and first round draft pick played for UConn, where she won a national championship (2016). In high school, Lou was a McDonald's All-American and National Gatorade Player of the year. They both played travel basketball for Coach Russ Davis as members of the Nike program Cal Swish. 

Chris Simmons is a former international professional basketball player that has been involved with player development and Nike travel basketball program TN Flight for almost ten years. His wife, Alex Simmons is the head women's basketball coach at Gardner Webb. I have known and worked with Chris at elite basketball camps around the country for the past eight years. Both of us have had awesome opportunities to work with some of the best prep girls' basketball players in the country and in college. We share a lot in common, in that we implement game like, transitional drills, and exercises that adhere to strong fundamentals into our program. What I mean by that, is we take what's most important in player development, use drills and train what is most likely going to transfer to on the court play, per individual. We take facets of the game, how the game is played, how individuals move and perform in a game and through repetition train those aspects. Neither of us necessarily promote our training or chase clients. We are selective with the players we workout and are fully invested in each individual. We pour into our clients on all aspects including mentoring, mental aspects of performance, teaching and learning the game. 

Host, James Parker of iBallAcademy.net interviews Brenan Ghassemieh, who was Kobe Bryant's performance coach and the strength and conditioning coach for Kobe's youth team, Team Mamba.  They discuss the need for integral training, incorporating all facets of performance and skill development to make the whole athlete. Also discussed is how to navigate fitness/performance goals during the stay at home directives due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Follow Brenan on IG at Brenan_GhassemiehFollow Point Center Twitter @PointCenterPCPoint Center IG @PointCenter_PodcastEmail: JamesParker@iBallAcademy.net