HARVARD BASKETBALL COACHES CLINIC REGISTRATION FORM The fee to attend the clinic is $50 if you pre-register by October 16, and $65 if you register during the week of the clinic. Each coach must fill out his or her own registration form (copies may be made of this application). Due to NCAA rules, the clinic is for coaches only. Players may not participate. NAME BASKETBALL ADDRESS CITY, STATE, ZIP HOME PHONE WORK PHONE EMAIL ADDRESS SCHOOL/TEAM SHIRT SIZE: (PLEASE CIRCLE ONE) M L XL 2X 3X PLUS Included in your package is a coach’s polo shirt and lunch! Please make checks payable to: Harvard Basketball Coaches Clinic COACHES Please detach application and return it to: Harvard Basketball Coaches Clinic 65 North Harvard Street Boston, MA 02163 CLINIC Questions? Call 617.495.3920 OFFICE USE ONLY: o CHECK # _______________________________________ o CASH AMOUNT _______________________ DATE ________________________ Harvard Basketball 65 North Harvard Street Boston, MA 02163 2009 FEATURED GUEST CLINICIAN CLINIC SCHEDULE HARVARD BASKETBALL STAFF DOUG COLLINS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25TH HEAD COACH TOMMY AMAKER Tommy Amaker became the head basketball coach at Harvard Doug Collins is a legendary NBA coach and one of the best broadcasters in basketball. Recognized as one of the 8:30 a.m. Registration University on April 13, 2007. Considered to be one of the best and great basketball minds in the game today, he is a member brightest basketball coaches in the country, Amaker has found of the lead TNT broadcast team and most recently Check-in at Lavietes Pavilion for great success in twelve years as a collegiate head coach. anchored TNT’s coverage of the 2009 NBA Playoffs. pre-registered coaches and registration Amaker has utilized a tough, enthusiastic and hard-nosed brand Collins also served as the lead analyst for NBC Sports for those who did not pre-register television coverage of basketball at the 2008 Summer of basketball that has opened the eyes of opponents across the Olympics in Beijing. During the 1990s, he also had stints with both NBC and nation. In his first two years at Harvard, the Crimson have already TNT as a leading analyst for their NBA coverage. 9:15 a.m. Opening Remarks posted impressive victories over Boston College and Michigan. Coach Tommy Amaker The win over Boston College was the program’s first win ever over Collins is a eight-year veteran of the NBA coaching ranks, having coached Michael Jordan and the Bulls in his first job as a NBA head coach, three years with a nationally-ranked opponent, and came on the heels of Boston Grant Hill and the Detroit Pistons, and was reunited with Michael Jordan for two 9:30 a.m. Harvard Basketball Practice College’s win over eventual-national champion North Carolina. seasons with the Washington Wizards. He compiled an overall record of 332-287 During the 2008-09 season, Amaker guided the team to a 14- and he took his teams to the playoffs his first five years as a head coach. 14 overall record, a 6-win improvement from the previous season 11:30 a.m. Lunch and the team’s first .500 record since 2002. Collins began his NBA coaching career as head coach for the Chicago Bulls, joining the organization on May 23, 1986. He led the Bulls into the playoffs 12:15 p.m. Lecture Amaker also put Michigan Basketball back on the national map in during all three of his seasons as head coach, coaching them to their best his six seasons in Ann Arbor. He guided Michigan to a third-place record (50-32) in 15 years during the 1987-88 season. Coach Doug Collins finish in the Big Ten in 2003, led them to an NIT Championship In his first year as the Pistons head coach, Collins engineered a franchise in 2004 and took them to the NIT Finals in 2006. Amaker led the record-tying 18-game Pistons turnaround in 1995-96, guiding Detroit to 46 2:15 p.m. Q&A Session Wolverines to three 20-win seasons, including his last two in Ann wins and its first playoff berth in four seasons. In the following season, the Coach Doug Collins Arbor. He compiled a 109-83 six-year record at Michigan. team won 54 games, the fifth-highest total in franchise history. The 1996-97 team also set a Detroit all-time record, winning 40 games in just 53 tries, a Prior to Michigan, Amaker brought success to Seton Hall University. mark faster than any team in Pistons history. Under his direction, the Pirates earned four consecutive post- VISITING HARVARD BASKETBALL season berths, including a trip to the NCAA Sweet 16 in 2000. Prior to his most recent work in the broadcast booth, Collins spent two Amaker compiled a 68-55 four-year record at Seton Hall. seasons as the head coach of the Washington Wizards from 2001-03. Having engineered an 18-game turnaround during his first season with the Wizards, Before his stint at Seton Hall, Amaker spent nine years as an • For directions to our campus, please visit Collins brought excitement back to the franchise and transformed them into assistant coach for the Duke Blue Devils, winning two National a playoff contender. www.gocrimson.com. Click on the “Directions” link Championships and reaching five Final Fours. A 1987 Duke The Benton, IL, native, earned a reputation as a strong advocate of defense as under the “Inside Athletics” tab on the top of the page. graduate, Amaker was a four-year starter at point guard for his Pistons teams ranked second in the NBA for two straight seasons. Detroit • Recommended area hotels include: the Blue Devils, winning the Henry Iba Corinthian Award as yielded just 92.9 points per game in 1995-96, a number almost 13 points better the National Defensive Player of the Year and being named All- . than the team’s defensive average in 1994-95. The team one-upped that mark The Charles Hotel (617) 864-1200 America in his senior year. the following season, allowing three fewer points per game (88.9). The Inn at Harvard (617) 491-2222 Collins has earned a reputation as a teacher and his record of working with . Doubletree Guest Suites (617) 783-0090 ASSISTANT COACH KENNY BLAKENEY young potential stars is impeccable. In Chicago, Jordan was beginning his . Days Hotel Boston (617) 254-1234 Kenny Blakeney begins his third season at Harvard. Prior to third year in the NBA when Collins took the helm. Scottie Pippen was a rookie arriving in Cambridge, Blakeney spent time as an assistant coach . The Courtyard by Marriott (617) 492-7777 during Collins’ second year coaching in Chicago. In Detroit he worked with at Marshall, Delaware, St. Bonaventure, LaSalle and James All-Star Grant Hill, but his pride comes with his work with players that were not in the top half of the first round of the NBA Draft. He worked with Aaron Madison. He has also conducted coaching clinics overseas, McKie (17th), Don Reid (58th), Theo Ratliff (18th), Jerome Williams (26th) early primarily in Africa. A prep standout at DeMatha Catholic High in their careers. School, Blakeney graduated from Duke University in 1995. At Duke, Blakeney won two National Championships as a player and He began his coaching career at the University of Pennsylvania in 1981 as an went to three Final Fours. assistant coach under Bob Weinhauer. Collins worked with Weinhauer in the same role at Arizona State for two seasons beginning in 1982. ASSISTANT COACH BRIAN DESTEFANO Drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers out of Illinois State with the first overall Brian DeStefano enters his third season at Harvard. DeStefano selection in the 1973 NBA Draft, Collins went on to star in the NBA for eight spent the previous six years at Duke University as a student seasons, all with the Sixers. He scored 7,427 points, averaging 17.9 points per game and was selected to play in four all-star games (1976-79). While at Illinois manager, head team manager and graduate assistant on Coach State, Collins starred on the 1972 United States’ Olympic Team, earning a Mike Krzyzewski’s staff. A 2005 Duke graduate, DeStefano is silver medal at the Munich Games. He sank two key free throws in the final the son of legendary Washington D.C. high school coach Paul seconds before the Soviets scored their controversial game-winning basket. DeStefano. An accurate shooter, the 6’6” guard shot .501 from the field in his NBA career, posting his best season in 1977-78, averaging 19.7 points and 4.1 assists per ASSISTANT COACH YANNI HUFNAGEL game while shooting .526 from the field. He averaged 21.5 points per game in Yanni Hufnagel begins his first season at Harvard after serving 32 playoff games and led Philadelphia to the Eastern Conference Championship two years as a graduate assistant at the University of Oklahoma. in 1977. A 2006 graduate of Cornell University who spent one season as a student manager there, Hufnagel also worked in the New Doug and his wife Kathy have two children Chris, who is an assistant basketball Jersey Nets organization as a basketball operations intern and coach at Duke University, and daughter Kelly, who is a fifth grade teacher in Allentown, PA. special assistant to head coach Lawrence Frank..