This is Mike S., tour director for the AIA tour, coach's clinic, and coaching school to Poland May 19-26. Here is our roster and schedule.
Roster:
Coach: Chris Sparks/Valparaiso U.
players:
Tweety Carter/Baylor; Howard Little/valpo; Mike Rogers/Valpo; Leonard Houston/Drake; Dane Watts/Creighton; Kenton Walker/Creighton; Alex legion/Illinois; Jon Pack/Coastal Carolina; Steven Sexton/Coastal Carolina; Marek Koltun/Lafayette U; Hubert Radtke/Polish pro player;
Trainer:
Chad Sturkie/Arkansas State University
coaches doing clinic in Katowice & Coach's School in Gdansk: Bob Hoffman/Mercer University(Macon, Ga); Dean Lockwood(women's asst for national champion U. of Tennessee lady Vols); Henrik Rodl(Alba/Berlin coach and former NCAA champion from University of North Carolina)
friends travelling
Mike Hayden/Hoops 4 Kidz and long time friend and supporter(Milwaukee); Jim Gordon/Hoops 4 Kidz(Milwaukee-former state champion coach from Wisconsin); Greg Anderson(15 yr old involved in Hoops 4 Kidz(Milwaukee)
We will play U20 Polish National team in two games and a game against an all star team. coaching clinic will be Friday night, all day Saturday and Sunday thru noon. We play games in the evenings. We expect around 300 coaches. We will also visit Auschwicz and Krakow.
I want to thank all the supporters of the players, coaches and trainer for making this trip possible. I also want to thank Bruce Weber, head coach at Illinois; Homer Drew, head coach at Valpo; Dana Altman, head coach at Creighton; Chris Davis, former asst at Drake and now asst at Providence; Scott Drew, head coach at Baylor; Scott Stapler, asst coach at Coastal Carolina; and Fran O'Hanlon, head coach at Lafayette.
Our AIA staff in Poland are Zbyszek M., Piotrek P., and Lukasz b.. Kazimierz(Kaz) Mikolajec of the Polish Basketball Federation has played a BIG role in making this possible!
We hope to be able to blog while in Poland....and if we are sophisticated enough, some pictures!