After more than three decades as a basketball coach at the high school, junior college, and college levels, I now run youth and high school basketball leagues in California through the HoopsUSA program. A graduate of Eastern Washington University, I coached at several Washington high schools before becoming assistant coach at Gonzaga University and later at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. I also served as head coach at Palomar College and Mira Costa College in the 1980s and 1990s, before founding the highly respected HoopsUSA program for young athletes. In addition, my career included several years as a sales and promotional representative for Converse, Puma, and Wilson, where I… negotiated contracts for major NBA, NFL and MLB players including Magic Johnson, Fernando Valenzuela, Marcus Allen, and many others.