About Coach P
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 Coach P's win and loss record over the past 15 years:
Hi and welcome to the site.
My goal as a coach is to work for the members of the team and to make them better today then they were yesterday. The only thing I ask in return is a commitment to learning and playing hard. I coach for 1 reason and it's because of the young men and women that are involved in the program. I take great pride in helping them develop their fundamental skills and watching their skills improve. Basketball is a game of reps and my goal is to teach them the correct way to implement those fundamental skills by increasing their reps over time, then it's up to them how hard they want to work to improve those fundamental skills.
While winning is the desired end result, it is not the most important ingredient. Learning and improving is most important along with being an honest, good, clean player who is academically strong.
As the saying goes a team has to learn how to lose before they can learn how to win, and I believe this statement to be very true.
BIO:
Coach P just finished coaching the St Rose of Lima 7th & 8th grade Panthers to an undefeated season in the Catholic League during the 2011 / 2012 season. Coach P has been the freshman basketball coach at Royal High School during the 2006 thru 2010 seasons, coaching both the summer and the fall freshman basketball programs. Coach P played basketball at South Catholic High in Hartford, Connecticut where his team won the state championship. His love of the game is what brought him to coaching for fifteen (30 seasons) years and he coaches year round in aau/travel/club basketball. He has coached both boys and girls in a variety of leagues/club teams in the past fifteen years (30 seasons) from Park & Rec, Boys and Girls Club, Viking Travel League, 805 Hive, Just Hoop’n Basketball Academy, St Rose of Lima 7th and 8th grade combo team, Swoosh, V-Jam and Boys 13 + 17 and under Club Teams. His 7th and 8th grade club teams back in 2004 thru 2006 were ranked in the top ten in the girl's division in the state of California.
Coach P has lived in Simi Valley for twelve years. He is married and has two children, a son and a daughter, who attend schools in the Simi Valley Unified School District and both play basketball.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS INCLUDE:
- Having the #1 or #2 ranked girls teams in the state of California while they were in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades.
- Having our 7th & 8th grade girls team beat a Southern California High School Varsity Girls team.
- Having all the girls from our Championship Girls Team make their respective Varsity Teams as freshman and some of them were starters. These girls went to 8 different high schools and accomplished this, great job.
- In 2006 becoming the Royal High School boys basketball coach and stating our first year playing 500 ball.
- Watching those same boys win league sophomore year under Coach Stokes.
- Having my two eighth grade boys teams take first place in 2 different leagues and finish first and second in their championship games.
- Having the summer 2009 Royal Freshman team finish with a 14 & 7 record and be 7 & 2 in the Marmonte League.
- Helping the Royal High School Basketball program rebuild their basketball teams.
- Having numerous players both male and female excel in both high school and college.
- Having numerous players both male and female hold top 10 stats for the year in their respective conferences.
- Coaching St Rose of Lima boys team to an undefeated Catholic League Championship in the 2011 / 2012 season.
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| VJAM - Santa Barbara Tourney |
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| VJAM - Nike Grand Slam |
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| VJAM - Newbury Park Classic |
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| VJAM - Swoosh Labor Day Classic |
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| VJAM - Bakersfield Tourney |
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You get back what you put in, period exclamation point
-- Coach P
Basketball is a game of reps, so what are you waiting for? Rep it up!
-- Coach P
Great players bring it when the game is on the line, that where they get their street credit from
-- Coach P
Great players outwork other players that's what makes them great
-- Coach P
The only thing standing in your way is yourself
-- Coach P
Nothing is easy it all comes with hard work and dedication
-- Coach P
Be better today than you were yesterday
-- Coach P
If you want to meet or exceed your expectations in this game then you are going to have to work hard at it!
-- Coach P
You have to find the good in what you do, otherwise, what good are you?
-- Coach P
In order to win, you must first learn how to lose
-- Everyday Citizen
What I've learned as a coach is that when people are not awed or overwhelmed by authority,true authority is attained.
-- Phil Jackson |
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