William Dillard

I officially stepped into a Co-Founder role with my brother for our basketball training company 2 years ago and had been training on and off throughout college. As of right now, I train athletes within all age and level groups. I have been lucky to also have trained and continue to train a few athletes who were blessed to continue playing overseas. I have also seen the benefits of hard work and perseverance in my youngest trainee at the age of 7. I coach alongside my brother and sister-in-law in our Women’s AAU teams, I specifically coach sophomores and juniors on this team. I have also recently branched into coaching a boy’s AAU team which is in the 8th-9th grade age range. I currently have my USA Gold Coaching license. I have been fortunate enough to work with a range of athletes and am very excited to keep working with and developing athletes in the game of basketball.

I played AAU basketball for the CP3 team for 3 years on the EYBL circuit where I was able to get hands-on coaching and training trips from Chris Paul and other NBA players. I went to Greensboro Day School starting in 7th grade, where I played 6 years on the Varsity Team, and was blessed enough to be nominated for the McDonald’s All American High School Basketball Team. During my high school years, we won 3 State Titles and attended the Dick’s National Tournament. I continued my athletic career at Georgia Southern University which is a NCAA Division 1 school. While at Georgia Southern, we traveled to Spain and played against various professional teams. Unfortunately, my career was cut short due to health complications, but there I stayed on and helped coaches and players and started to understand and grow my knowledge of coaching and training.

In a typical training session, the first 15-20 minutes of the workout is always going to start with ball handling including; fingertip drops, figure eight dribbles, pound dribbles, crossovers, combo dribbles and high dribbles. Next, we move into form shooting from 5 spots in front of the rim making 10 shots from all spots. We then move into lay up and floater drills. After we finish the focused shooting drills, this is where we get into the detailed work of various skills depending on who I am training, where their strengths and weaknesses are and/or areas that they want to focus on. We can work on offensive attacks and drills or defensive reads and moves if that is where the trainee and I agree they need to work. I also incorporate conditioning and vertimax training into my workouts to ensure we are constantly working on all aspects of ourselves and the game. My trainings are hard and will push you but I also want to make sure we are constantly focusing on the details of your game to build a constant foundation that can be translated into live games and can help grow your athletic career.