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September 8, 2009

Arizona Preps
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WHAT: Arizona Preps Basketball Coaches Clinic

DATE: Saturday, October 10th, 2009

TIME: Saturday, 9-4PM (Lunch Will Be Included)

LOCATION: Taylor Junior High School (705 S 32nd Street, Mesa, AZ 85204)

FORMAT: Boys & Girls High School & AAU/Club Coaches. Limited to 100 Coaches.

ENTRY FEE: $50 Per Coach or $125 Per Coaching Staff.

REGISTER NOW. THIS EVENT WILL FILL QUICKLY.

ARIZONA PREPS COACHES CLINIC LIST OF GUEST SPEAKERS

JIM BOYLEN - UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEAD COACH
BROOKS THOMPSON - UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-SAN ANTONIO HEAD COACH
DAVID GRACE - OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY ASSISTANT COACH
KURTIS TOWNSEND - UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEAD ASSISTANT COACH
KELLY GREEN - ARIZONA WESTERN JUNIOR COLLEGE HEAD COACH

ARIZONA PREPS COACHES CLINIC FEATURES

* LEARN DIRECTLY FROM SPECIAL GUESTS
* NUMEROUS SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS COVERING DIFFERENT TOPICS
* DEVELOP UNDERSTANDING OF CORE BASKETBALL FUNDAMENTALS
* DEVELOP UNDERSTANDING AND APPROACH TO THE GAME
* DEVELOP UNDERSTANDING OF THE COLLEGE RECRUITING PROCESS
* EACH PARTICIPANT WILL RECEIVE AN OFFICIAL CLINIC T-SHIRT

ARIZONA PREPS FEATURED GUEST SPEAKERS COACHES BIO'S

JIM BOYLEN - UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEAD COACH - KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Tradition. Accountability. Defense. Intensity. These are just a few of the attributes University of Utah Head Coach Jim Boylen has brought back to the Runnin' Ute program. One of the hottest head coaches in division-I men's basketball, Jim Boylen was recently named the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) District 17 Coach of the Year, as voted on by his peers.

In his second year as Utah's head coach, Boylen led the Runnin' Utes to the Mountain West Conference Tournament championship and a share of the regular-season conference title with an overall record of 24-10, 12-4 in the MWC. He also brought Utah back to the NCAA Tournament and into the national top 25 for the first time since 2005.

Boylen also brings 20 years of coaching experience in the collegiate and professional ranks with him to Utah. Boylen also comes to Utah with experience coaching with some of the best in the game. He has been an assistant to Jud Heathcoate, Tom Izzo and Rudy Tomjanovich, just to name a few.

After working in the NBA for 13 years, Boylen served as the top assistant to Izzo at Michigan State during the 2005-06 and 2006-07 seasons. Boylen also began his coaching career at Michigan State, working under former head coach Heathcote from 1987-92. Following his first stint at Michigan State, Boylen made his jump to the NBA.

He joined the Houston Rockets as a video coordinator in 1992 and was promoted to assistant coach just two years later. With Boylen on staff, the Rockets won back-to-back NBA Championships in 1994 and 1995 and advanced to the NBA Western Conference Finals in 1997. During Boylen's 11-year stint in Houston, the Rockets made seven playoff appearances and had nine winning seasons. While coaching with the Rockets, Boylen worked with four of the NBA's 50 Greatest Players in Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler, Hakeem Olajuwon and Scottie Pippen. While in Houston, Boylen also worked under Tomjanovich -- one of the greatest coaches in NBA history.

BROOKS THOMPSON - UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-SAN ANTONIO HEAD COACH
Former NBA player and Oklahoma State star Brooks Thompson enters his fourth season as head coach of the UTSA men's basketball program. In his three years in the Alamo City, Thompson has guided the Roadrunners to a remarkable turnaround, including a 19-win campaign in 2008-09, the most victories in six seasons. He also led UTSA to the 2009 Southland Conference Tournament Championship Game, the program's first appearance since 2004, and to a school-record nine regular season non-conference victories.

Thompson's teams have broken 11 school records, including setting a half dozen single-game marks in the 136-68 win over East Central on Nov. 22, 2008.

Thompson came to UTSA from Arizona State, where he served as an assistant coach for two seasons. Prior to his stint at Arizona State, Thompson was head coach at Yavapai College in Prescott, Ariz., for two seasons (2002-04) where he compiled a 55-14 record and a .797 winning percentage, the highest in school history. He was named NJCAA Region I Coach of the Year both seasons and Arizona Community College Athletic Conference (ACCAC) Coach of the Year in 2002-03. Thompson led the RoughRiders to back-to-back ACCAC regular season titles ? the first two conference titles in school history ? and to two consecutive Region I Tournament Championships.

DAVID GRACE - OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY ASSISTANT COACH
David Grace enters his second season as an assitant coach with the Oregon State men's basketball program. Prior to joining the Beavers, Grace served as an assistant coach at the University of San Francisco. Before joining USF, Grace served as an assistant coach at Sacramento State, where he assisted with academics, recruiting, on-floor coaching and scouting while working with the team's backcourt.

Grace spent the previous two years as the head coach at South Mountain High School in Phoenix, Ariz., where he led the Jaguars to a 5A Div. II State Championship. The team went 29-4 and the state title was the first for South Mountain since 1992. In addition, he led the team to a state playoff appearance in 2004-05. One year prior to his arrival, South Mountain had finished just 4-17.

Grace was also head coach of the Arizona Magic in 2004, leading the team to a national ranking of 21st and an eighth place finish at the Adidas Big Time Tournament in Las Vegas. The eighth-place finish was the best in the history of any AAU team from the state of Arizona.

With the Magic, Grace helped develop players Lawrence Hill (Stanford), Joey Shaw (Indiana), Harvey Perry (Washington), Christian Polk (UTEP via Arizona State), Ray Murdock (San Diego), Kaleo Kina (Navy), James Anderson (BYU), Nkem Ojougboh (Northeastern), Bryson Krueger (Arizona State), Devon Evertsen (Grand Canyon via Boston College), Luis Ahmundson (Phoenix Suns) and Derek Wabbington (Harlem Globetrotters) among others.

KURTIS TOWNSEND - UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEAD ASSISTANT COACH
Kurtis Townsend enters his fifth season at the University of Kansas. Since his arrival in Lawrence, Townsend has been a part of the KU program which has won a national championship, two NCAA Tournament Elite Eights, four Big 12 regular-season titles and three conference tournament crowns.

Regarded as one of the top recruiters in college basketball, Townsend also served as assistant at Miami, Southern California, Michigan, California and Eastern Kentucky.

Townsend has coached numerous NBA players including KU's contingent from the last four seasons - Wayne Simien, Julian Wright, Brandon Rush, Darrell Arthur and Darnell Jackson. Additionally, he has mentored Jason Kidd, Lamond Murray, Tremaine Fowlkes, Shareef Abdul-Rahim, Ed Gray, Sean Marks, Michael Stewart, Jamal Crawford, Lou Bullock, Sam Clancy and Guillermo Diaz. While at Cal, he also coached current NFL player Tony Gonzales.

KELLY GREEN - ARIZONA WESTERN JUNIOR COLLEGE HEAD COACH
Kelly Green begins his 12th year at helm of one of the most successful men's basketball programs in the NJCAA. Green's teams have won 21 games or more each of the last 10 seasons, making AWC the winningest college or university men's basketball program in the state of Arizona over that time.

Green has led the Matadors to 5 straight Region I Finals' games, winning 3 Region I Championships during that stretch. Under Green's tutelage, the Matadors made back-to-back NJCAA Tournament appearances in 2006 and 2007 for the first time in 30 years, and won their first game at the tournament since 1991.

Green's illustrious 23-year coaching career began at Frank Phillips College in Texas, where as the youngest head coach in the Lone Star State at that time, he led the men's basketball team to its first winning season in a decade. Green then moved on to Texas JC power Western Texas College before getting his first taste of NCAA Division-I coaching as the top assistant at the University of Texas-Pan American. While at UTPA, the team recorded the 4th-best turnaround in NCAA Division-I and had the highest conference finish in school history. After brief stints at Western New Mexico University and Angleton Texas High School, Kelly and his family came back to the community college ranks.


FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS EXCITING CLINIC PLEASE CALL Jacquelyn Granger at (602) 942-2225 OR (310) 741-7948.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL Jacquelyn Granger at (602) 942-2225 OR (310) 741-7948.

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