ADIDAS HOOPS CLINIC
The EA SPORTS Maui Invitational Tournament, Chaminade University and adidas are working together to create and host basketball related clinics throughout the Hawaiian islands. The overall clinic goals are to promote the fundamentals of the game and to offer educational opportunities to learn from qualified, collegiate coaches and administrators. There are two types of clinics that will be conducted this fall: coaches and kids. Additionally, clinics for officials will take place on a bi-annual basis; 2011 will be an off-year.
COACHES CLINICS: Provides an educational opportunity for local island basketball coaches to learn playing techniques, coaching skills and overall management styles from successful former Division I NCAA basketball coaches and current D-II Chaminade University coaches. In 2011, the five coaches will be: Tournament Chairman David Odom, ESPN Analyst and former head coach Fran Fraschilla, Basketball Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman, Chaminade head men's basketball coach Eric Bovaird and women's basketball coach Bobby Keanini. For information, please scroll down to the bottom of the page to download the official flyers. To register for the clinics, CLICK HERE
2011 Dates/Locations -- COMING SOON
Two on Oahu: Sept. 28 (McKinley H.S.) and 29 (Kalaheo H.S.)
One on Maui: Oct. 1 (Maui High School)
Meet the Coaches
Dave Odom
Tournament Chairman, EA SPORTS Maui Invitational
David Odom is entering his third year as Tournament Chairman of the EA SPORTS Maui Invitational. Odom is well-known to the college basketball world, with a career that spans more than 30 years and garnered him three NIT Tournament Championships, two ACC Tournament Championships and one ACC Regular Season Championship. He served as head coach for East Carolina, Wake Forest and South Carolina and was named ACC Coach of the Year three times (1991, 1994, 1995 while at Wake Forest) and SEC Coach of the Year in 2004 at South Carolina. Odom is no stranger to the Hawaiian islands. By quirky coincidence, Odom was on the bench as an assistant coach for Virginia in 1982 when the team was defeated by Chaminade in what became known as "The Greatest Upset in College Basketball History." That game was the inspiration for what is now the EA SPORTS Maui Invitational.
Fran Fraschilla
ESPN College Basketball Broadcast Analyst
Fraschilla’s coaching odyssey began at New York Tech where he spent a season, followed by Rhode Island, Ohio and Ohio State for a collective total of ten years. He then moved on to Providence as an assistant for 13 seasons before going to Manhattan in his first head coaching job. While at Manhattan, Fraschilla was named the NABC coach of the year in 1995, and during his Manhattan tenure Fraschilla led his team to postseason tournament play each year, going to the NCAA tournament twice and the NIT tournament twice. Fraschilla moved on to St. John’s, where in two seasons his Red Storm teams had a winning record of 35-24 including going 22-10 in his second season there. Fraschilla was named the men’s head basketball coach at the University of New Mexico in March of 1999. At the end of his three years at the UNM helm Fraschilla’s record stood at 55-41 (.571). He led the Lobos to three consecutive NIT appearances. Upon departing the University of New Mexico, Fraschilla’s career coaching record stood at 175-100 (.636). After spending 23 years coaching men’s college basketball, Fran Fraschilla took on a new gig in 2002 when he joined ESPN as a broadcast analyst.
Nancy Lieberman
Assistant GM, NBDL's Texas Legends
Nancy Lieberman was recently named assistant general manager of the NBA's D-League's Texas Legends, adding to her already incredible resume. Lieberman is a Basketball Hall of Famer, two-time Olympian, three-time All-American, two-time collegiate national champion and two-time national player of the year at Old Dominion University. Lieberman was also the first woman to play in a men's professional league when she suited up for the Springfield Fame and Long Island Knights of the United State Basketball League in the 1980s. In 1997, Lieberman came out of retirement and was drafted by the Phoenix Mercury during the inaugural season of the WNBA at the age of 39, becoming the oldest player to ever play in the league. Lieberman added a new piece to her resume in 2009 when she was appointed as the first female head coach in the NBA, and took the leadership role as Head Coach for the Dallas Mavericks NBA D-League Team, "Texas Legends" which she led to the playoffs in their first season as an expansion team. For information on Lieberman's new book, "Playbook for Success", click here.
Eric Bovaird
Chaminade University Men's Basketball Coach
Entering his first season as Chaminade men's basketball coach, Bovaird takes over a team that has won the Pac West title and made the Division II NCAA Tournament in three of the past six seasons. Before coming to Oahu, Bovaird served as the assistant coach at West Liberty University in West Virginia for the past seven years where the team recorded a 175-40 won-loss record - one of the top records over the past five years in the NCAA Division II level. The 2010-11 Hilltoppers were ranked No. 1 in the nation for the final two months of the season and reeled off 33 consecutive wins before the loss to BYU-Hawaii in the national semifinals. With four 1,000-point scorers in the starting lineup, West Liberty averaged more than 111 ppg. and shattered the previous NCAA Division II single-season scoring record by nearly 200 points. The Hilltoppers also became the first NCAA Division II team ever to make more than 500 3-point field goals in a single season. West Liberty has led the nation in scoring in six of the last seven years and has been ranked in the NCAA Division II as one of the top 20 teams nationally in five of the past six years.
Bobby Keanini
Chaminade University Women's Basketball Coach
Keanini enters his third year at the helm of the Chaminade Women's Basketball program. The former Roosevelt High School girls’ basketball head coach brings a wealth of experience to the Silverswords program. Keanini served as the head girls’ basketball coach at Roosevelt from 1992-2007. During that time, his teams made seven state tournament appearances with a Division II State Championship and a Division I State runner up finish. He was named OIA Eastern Division Girls Basketball Coach of the Year in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 while also garnering Division II State Coach of the Year accolades in 2004.
KIDS CLINICS: Offers basketball skills programs to deserving kids throughout Hawaii in clinics designed to share the joy of the game of basketball while supporting the Hawaii Foodbank. The Chaminade University men’s basketball program will work with kids on skills, drills, dribbling, passing and shooting.
2011 Dates/Locations -- COMING SOON
Oahu: Sept. 17 (Spalding House)
Maui: Oct. 8 (Hale Pono Clubhouse)
Maui: Nov. 19 (Front Street Courts)
Chaminade men's basketball coach Eric Bovaird shares his basketball knowledge with nearly 100 kids on Sat., Sept. 17 at the Spalding House in Honolulu
OFFICIALS CLINICS (bi-annual; dormant in 2011): To provide an educational opportunity for local island basketball officials to better understand the Rules & Regulations from former NCAA Division I Officiating Supervisor Dr. Hank Nichols.
In 2010, the free officials clinics featured instruction on the philosophy of officiating, two-person and three-person mechanics and the latest NCAA instructional videos. Both clinics were run by retired NCAA Division I men’s national officials coordinator (1986-2008), Hank Nichols. He also serves as the officials supervisor for the EA SPORTS Maui Invitaitonal. Ed Hightower, current NCAA Division I official (1996-present) and veteran of 12 NCAA Division I Final Fours, co-ran the clinic on Maui with Nichols. The first clinic was on Wednesday, Nov. 17 at Chaminade University, and the second one was on Friday, Nov. 19 at Kahului Community Center Annex in Kahului.
