ABOUT US

Walter Welsh - Co-Director

After graduating from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, I  worked for the Police Athletic League for 15 years as a Director in Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn New York, It was at the Miccio Center in Brooklyn New York that I became the sole-  founder of the New York City EXCEL basketball program that started in 1990. At the time, the EXCEL girls basketball program was the only inner-city AAU program that offered young ladies an opportunity to travel and play in front of college coach in a city that live and die through basketball. In 1998 I took the excel girls basketball program and joined forces with the renounced NYC Gauchos boys organization and to give them a co-gender program that they needed to be a full fledge basketball program that serviced both male and female players in the tri-state area
 
I also worked at the New York Mayor Office of the Sports Commission  where I was involved in the INNER -CITY GAMES as a program coordinator where we provide Olympic Sports for 10,000 athletes in variety of sports at major venues across the city.  After 18 years of coach girls basketball I have been involved with help over 100 young ladies to received college scholarships to colleges  throughout the country.

Have coached and developed 10 professional female  basketball players who have played in Germany, Turkey, Spain, Great  Britian, Puerta Rico, Luthuania, Romania, France and Ukraine. Also coached WNBA player Pietra Gay (LSU) - Houston Comets, Bethany Donaphin (STANFORD  UNIVERSITY) NY Liberty, Caritas Henry (LSU) Portland Power  of the defunct  ABL.  Have coached and trained  the 1998-99 ACC Rookie of the Year Niesha Butler (Georgia Tech University) and the 2008 first round WNBA  player Matee Ajavon. I Have coach and trained players that have played in the  following college conference, ACC, BIG EAST, BIG TEN, PAC-10, ATLANTIC 10, SEC and other lower Div 1 conferences.
 

Calvin Young Co- Director

I was a High School Girls Basketball Coach in the New York City Public School System since 1995. Most Recently as the Head Coach of Thomas Jefferson Campus High School in East New York Brooklyn. While the Coach at Thomas Jefferson Campus our Team Made New York City Public School Athletic League History by becoming the first team to ever win back to back New York City Championships in two Different Classifications. ('B'& 'A') We Won the New York City Public School Athletic League 'B' Championship in the 2005 - 2006 season and advanced to the semi finals of the New York State Federation Championship that year. Then the following season 2006-2007 we won the New York City Public School Athletic League 'A' Championship and advanced all the way to the New York State Federation Championship game and finished as New York State Runner up.

I received two United States of America CONGRESSIONAL RECORDS from the United States of America House of Representatives. I also received a New York City Proclamation at City Hall from the New York City Council for our accomplishments. Prior to Coaching at Thomas Jefferson I was the Head Coach at Theodore Roosevelt High School in the Bronx, Where we made The New York City Public School Athletic league Playoffs in all three seasons I coached there. I started my Coaching Career at Sheepshead Bay High School in Brooklyn as an assistant coach, were we made the playoffs every year advancing to the Quarter finals in 1998 the semi finals in 1999 and the Championship game at Madison Square Garden in 2000. But, I am most proud that over the years I have been lucky enough to have coached many student athletes that have gone on to play college basketball.

I have been working for the New York City Department of Education in various capacities for over fifteen years. I’m currently in an administration position at an occupational training center for special education students with disabilities. I am a native New Yorker and a product of local schools, Franklin K Lane H.S. Borough of Manhattan Community College and Lastly New York City College of Technology where I earned My Career and Technology teacher education license degree. I currently reside in New Jersey with my beautiful wife Sherriane.
 

UPCOMING EVENTS

 THE BIG APPLE  HOLIDAY CLASSIC
NEW YORK CITY
DECEMBER 26th -  29th 2008

THE BATTLE OF THE BRONX
BRONX, NEW YORK
 AUGUST  9TH – 10TH  2008