Point Center with James Parker takes an introspective look at youth sports and college athletics through a variety of angles. Kobe Bryant would always say to me “Sports is the ultimate metaphor for life.” Basketball teaches us a lot of things about each other and life. Discussions will revolve around the values and skills it takes to be successful in sports, and how those values and skills apply to our lives. Through a host of interviews with knowledgeable experts in their fields, I will dive into topics like skill development, athletic performance, strength, conditioning, mental aspects, leadership, branding, recruiting and more.
NEXT STEP (Transitional Coaching with Willette White)
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. ...
27 Nov 2020
Coach April Phillips "The Recruiting Blueprint"
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...
13 Jul 2020
NAIA Hall of Fame Coach Russ Davis of Vanguard University WBB
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 ...
27 Jun 2020
2021 5'11 Guard Jess Finney, University of Washington commit
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.
27 Jun 2020
2021 5'9 Combo Guard Ally Stedman of Phoenix Fire Prep
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 Pacific Santa Clara Pepperdine Nevada SJSU Delaware Georgetown UPenn Denver UCSD LIU Ball State
5 Jun 2020
Transition with Karlie and Katie Lou Samuelson
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 champions...
26 May 2020
We Work w Chris Simmons
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 coll...
8 May 2020
Don't Confuse Complexity With Progress
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_Ghassemieh Follow...
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