Interview w/ Donte' Davis (HC at Owens CC)

10/02/20 • 55 min

Coach Davis shares his journey from coaching HS and AAU basketball and then college basketball. His energy, passion, and work ethic are some of the best in the business. He is highly motivated even authored his own book as well as a brand. He worked a various HS programs prior to getting into the JUCO ranks - and made quite a name for himself in the recruiting aspect of coaching! Coach Davis has recruited and signed 18+ players on multiple occasions. After reaching out to college coaches about working their camps, he connected with Jayson Gee while he was at Longwood University and instantly hit it off, he was hired and worked his way up from Assistant DOBO to Video Coordinator in his 2nd year. After Longwood be got on staff at Owens CC in Ohio and currently is their HC. They were one of the schools that made the decision to suspended athletics this past spring and so he's recruited a full class and had to get creative on how to coach a team without having practices or games this season. If anyone can do it - Donte Davis can!!

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Interview w/ Mark Bialkoski (DOBO at University of Maryland)

Coach Bialkoski is the Director of Basketball Operations at the University of Maryland. He started his coaching journey as a Student Manager at Georgia Southern before being promoted to Head Student Manager under Jeff Price. From there he moved onto UNC Charlotte where he started off as a Graduate Manager under Bobby Lutz and remained on staff as the Program Assistant then DOBO under Coach Alan Major. Coach Bialkoski is entering his sixth season in College Park working under Mark Turgeon and his third as DOBO after starting off as the Video Coordinator for his first three seasons. He's worn a number of hats in the college basketball coaching profession and has worked for - and with great basketball minds. Coach Bialkoski is a coach who truly wants to help fellow coaches and "grow the game".

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Interview w/ Scott Greenman (AC at American University)

Coach Scott Greenman shares his journey from player to coach. He was a All-Ivy League player at Princeton before embarking on a professional playing career for B'nei Ha'sharon in Israel. Coach Greenman then became a coach at his alma mater and was named HC of the U.S.A. U-18 Maccabiah Team in 2009. After Princeton he moved down to DC to be on staff at Georgetown and then at American University. He was recently named the 3rd best Assistant Coach in the Patriot League via a poll among the coaches in conference. Coach Greenman got to know the late John Thompson who's son was Scott's college HC and then his boss at Georgetown - he shares a funny story about him. Not everything has been sunshine and rainbows for Scott and his family, he opens up about the loss of their newborn Eliana. After her passing him and his family have been very active with the "March for Babies" campaign.

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