Episode 144 - Ed Ward - Former College Basketball/Baseball Coach & HS Basketball Coach

College  Basketball Coach?  Check College Baseball Coach?  Check High School Basketball Coach?  Check Travel Baseball Coach?  Check Fans, Ed Ward has done it all!  What a great guest for The Greatest Games Podcast!  Coach Ward tells us about his unique journey through sport and about a couple of epic games.  This episode really brings out the spirit of what sport is all about.  Thank you to Coach Ward for coming on the show!   Visit TeachHoops.com/816basketball for incredible basketball coaching content and resources from Coach Steve Collins.  Sign up for the two week free trial, learn and grow as a coach and support the show all at the same time.   Share, subscribe and leave us a 5 star review if you enjoy. Follow us on Twitter at @816Basketball.

Rich Gatewood, the new Head Boys Basketball Coach at Moore Traditional School in Louisville, joins Kris and Brian in today’s episode of The Greatest Games Podcast.  Coach Gatewood has one of the most unique stories and journeys through high school basketball that he shares with us in this inspiring episode.  Hear his thoughts on traditional high schools as well as prep schools and how they both play a role in today’s basketball landscape.  Also learn about the value of having connections with college coaches and how that can help your kids at the high school level.  We can’t thank Coach Gatewood enough for coming on the show!   Visit TeachHoops.com/816basketball for incredible basketball coaching content and resources from Coach Steve Collins.  Sign up for the two week free trial, learn and grow as a coach and support the show all at the same time.   Share, subscribe and leave us a 5 star review if you enjoy. Follow us on Twitter at @816Basketball.

Join us for today’s episode with 5 time state championship winning coach Chris Roche!  Learn all about how his Wilsonville HS team won back to back state championships in 2019 and 2022.  That’s correct and not a typo!  Coach Roche is an incredible man and has an amazing amount of clarity when it comes to how he coaches and what is shooting for each year.  This episode will challenge and inspire you!   Visit TeachHoops.com/816basketball for incredible basketball coaching content and resources from Coach Steve Collins.  Sign up for the two week free trial, learn and grow as a coach and support the show all at the same time.   Share, subscribe and leave us a 5 star review if you enjoy. Follow us on Twitter at @816Basketball.

Coach Fred Hill joins Kris and Brian for the second time to discuss many topics including The Basketball Reunion coming up on April 4 at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, Team Hill Foundation and Compass Basketball Academy.     Learn more about about each of these ventures and the links below: www.thebasketballreunion.com www.teamhillfoundation.org www.compassbasketball.com   Coach Fred Hill has such infectious energy and we can’t thank him enough for coming back on the show!   Visit TeachHoops.com/816basketball for incredible basketball coaching content and resources from Coach Steve Collins.  Sign up for the two week free trial, learn and grow as a coach and support the show all at the same time.   Share, subscribe and leave us a 5 star review if you enjoy.   Follow us on Twitter at @816Basketball.

We are excited to bring you New York Times Best Selling Author Ian O’Connor in today’s episode of The Greatest Games Podcast.  He is the author of the brand new book The Rise and Reign of Mike Krzyzewski.  This is a MUST read as we witness the end of Coach K’s illustrious coaching career.     Ian shares about his process of writing the book, and about how it was 30 years in the making ever since he sat courtside at the Duke vs. UK 1992 East Regional at the Spectrum when Christian Laettner hit “The Shot.”    We can’t thank Ian O’Connor enough for coming on the show.  We encourage our listeners to check out his library of books here.   Visit TeachHoops.com/816basketball for incredible basketball coaching content and resources from Coach Steve Collins.  Sign up for the two week free trial, learn and grow as a coach and support the show all at the same time.   Share, subscribe and leave us a 5 star review if you enjoy.   Follow us on Twitter at @816Basketball.

Jeff Koehler returns to talk about a challenging topic:  Parents and their role in talking with coaches about playing time, etc.  This is a really thought-provoking episode and we can’t thank Coach Koehler for coming back to share some wisdom with us!   Visit TeachHoops.com/816basketball for incredible basketball coaching content and resources from Coach Steve Collins.  Sign up for the two week free trial, learn and grow as a coach and support the show all at the same time.   Share, subscribe and leave us a 5 star review if you enjoy. Follow us on Twitter at @816Basketball.

After a late night of work on The Bash Brian checks in to say hello and talk briefly about The Bash!

Corbin Landers, the head JV and Varsity Boys Basketball coach at Camden Military Academy, joins us for this week’s episode of The Greatest Games Podcast.  Coach Landers has a wide variety of experiences in basketball at a young age and has now landed his first head coaching opportunity in Camden, SC.  Hear his heart for his players and learn more about his “why” in this episode in addition to an incredible game between Charleston Southern and High Point from the mid 2010s.   Before going any further, please make a donation here to Coach Tacauma Lettsome’s GoFundMe page and help this former basketball coach in his fight against ALS:   https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-tacauma-fight-als/donate  You can learn more about ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) here at ALS.org.  Hear more about Coach Lettsome’s story in this link from WLTX TV in Columbia, SC.   Visit TeachHoops.com/816basketball for incredible basketball coaching content and resources from Coach Steve Collins.  Sign up for the two week free trial, learn and grow as a coach and support the show all at the same time.   Share, subscribe and leave us a 5 star review if you enjoy. Follow us on Twitter at @816Basketball.

Relationships are hard enough, but imagine preparing your team for a big game and, oh by the way, the other team is coached by your spouse!  Well, that’s what happened recently in the Bronx as Rutgers University-Newark, coached by Ashley Cieplicki,  visited The College of Mount Saint Vincent, coached by Phil Stern,  in what we believe is the very first college basketball matchup between spouses.  Hear all about how this game came about, and how special this game was for all who were involved.  Heck, even our very own Kris DeBlasio was able to watch this historic matchup.  We can't thank Ashley and Phil enough for sharing this story with us.   We would also like to shoutout SNARR (Special Needs Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation) as they were a part of the special night as well as the beneficiary of t-shirt sales and donations.  Learn more about this amazing organization at https://snarrnortheast.org/ and adopt Alfie before Brian does!   Before going any further, please make a donation here to Coach Tacauma Lettsome’s GoFundMe page and help this former basketball coach in his fight against ALS:   https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-tacauma-fight-als/donate  You can learn more about ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) here at ALS.org.  Hear more about Coach Lettsome’s story in this link from WLTX TV in Columbia, SC.   Visit TeachHoops.com/816basketball for incredible basketball coaching content and resources from Coach Steve Collins.  Sign up for the two week free trial, learn and grow as a coach and support the show all at the same time.   Share, subscribe and leave us a 5 star review if you enjoy.   Follow us on Twitter at @816Basketball.

As a basketball player George Selleck was selected as the California Interscholastic Federation Player of the Year, at Stanford he earned All-American honors and then went on to being elected to the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame and the Pac-12 Ring of Honor.  As a coach he was selected TWICE by the Los Angeles Times as the High School Coach of the Year.  But it is not these accomplishments that define George Selleck.  Through Lead2Play, an organization he founded, and the numerous books he has written Dr. Selleck has made it his life’s work to empower youth and to make sports fun for those involved.   In his new book, Kian and Me: Gifts from a Grandson, which is out now at Amazon and other fine retailers, Dr. Selleck walks readers through what Kian, his toddler grandson, is teaching him as his grandfather.  It is a book that we can’t recommend enough to our listeners and one containing endless lessons for adults as seen through the eyes of a toddler.  Pick up a copy today.   Before going any further, please make a donation here to Coach Tacauma Lettsome’s GoFundMe page and help this former basketball coach in his fight against ALS:   https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-tacauma-fight-als/donate   You can learn more about ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) here at ALS.org.  Hear more about Coach Lettsome’s story in this link from WLTX TV in Columbia, SC.   Visit TeachHoops.com/816basketball for incredible basketball coaching content and resources from Coach Steve Collins.  Sign up for the two week free trial, learn and grow as a coach and support the show all at the same time.   Share, subscribe and leave us a 5 star review if you enjoy. Follow us on Twitter at @816Basketball.