Wendell C.

I have coached kids for over 25 years. While in college, I helped run camps at the University of Texas at Austin. I also helped run camps everywhere I played overseas in my professional career. I have trained players who are trying to make the NBA in the Houston Pro Am Summer League. I have my own sports academy, and I train kids of all ages from 2 years old to 21 years of age. Training and development are my number one goal, and my mission is to get my clients ready so they have a chance to compete and make any team at any level.

At 16, I made my first national team from my home country of Trinidad and Tobago. In junior college at North Dakota Williston, I won many awards from all conference player MVP. At The University Texas at Austin, I got the best field goal percentage award in 1999 where we won our first big 12 championship in Texas history. Furthermore, I had the opportunity to train with the Houston Rockets even though I never made the team, it prepared me to have a great career overseas. I played in Japan, Austria, Germany, Lebanon, Qatar and other countries.

My training session strategies are based on the age and level of the client as follows:

The first part of my training is warm up. First, we stretch, do a warm up run, do running sideways, and high knees. Next, we do agility ladders to work on quick feet technique. Then, we do some stand still dribbling as a warm up, inside out between the legs crossovers drills, and then we begin movements drills. These are followed by quick change of directions, crossovers, cones, and two ball dribbling drills.
The second leg of my training is shooting. First, we need to warm up with one handed shooting with proper form. Next, we go into some basic fakes and one dribble jump shots. Then, we do some combination of dribbling with jump shots coming off some pick and roll jump shots. After, we do some combination drives as going to the basket left and right and finishing either side and reverse layups as well. Older clients will do some side step three point jump shots, do some down screen and pop out to the wings, and catch and shoot, or pump fake one dribble jump shot to name a few of things we do. I have an arsenal of things I teach, but like I said, it is based on the level of the client I teach at different levels.