Management and Advisory Board
Management
Del Harris
CHAIRMAN AND CO-MANAGER
Del Harris has dedicated his life’s work to basketball as a coach, mentor, writer, and advocate for the values of the game. In his more than 50-year coaching career, he has coached at every level, ranging from junior high hoops to the NBA and Olympics. Following a successful high school coaching stint in his native Indiana, Harris spent nine seasons at Earlham College, where the Quakers earned numerous championships and national rankings. In 1967-68 he was a finalist for NAIA National Coach of the Year.
Internationally, first while at Earlham, he coached seven summers in the Puerto Rico Superior League, winning three national titles from 1973-75. He coached the National Team in two FIBA international events, winning a gold and a silver. Then, in the 1994 FIBA World Cup, Harris served as an assistant with Canada and in the 1998 World Cup with USA Basketball, when they medaled with no NBA players. In the 2004 Athens Olympics, he was the first foreigner to coach the Chinese National Team, as Yao Ming and that team eliminated the then World Champion Serbia to gain entry into the medal round, regarded as China’s best ever international win.
In 1975 Harris joined the ABA, serving-as the assistant coach of the Utah Stars who went defunct the first month of the ABA’s final year. He finished the season as an assistant at the University of Utah. The next year he became the assistant for the Houston Rockets, as his head coach earned coach of the year honors. For the next 34 years, he served either as lead assistant or head coach of the Houston Rockets, Milwaukee Bucks, Los Angeles Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, and Chicago Bulls. Harris led the Houston Rockets to the NBA Finals in 1981 and was recognized as the NBA Coach of the Year in 1995 while with the Los Angeles Lakers. In 12 full years as a head coach, his teams made the playoffs 11 times. Harris currently serves as Vice President of the Mavericks G-League affiliate, the Texas Legends for the 14th year.
As for honors, between 1992 to 2024 he was voted entry into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and various other HOF’s, including the Indiana Basketball, the NAIA Basketball, the Small College Basketball, the Indiana Sports, and the Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association. He also has been awarded the John Wooden “Keys to Life” Award, the Jerry Colangelo Award for Leadership and Character, the NABC International Lifetime Achievement Award, the Naismith Legacy Award by the Global Sports Summit, the John Bunn Lifetime Achievement Award and the NBA Coaches Association Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award.
Nancy Lieberman
Vice-Chairman
Nancy “Lady Magic” Lieberman is a true pioneer in women’s sports. She is the youngest male or female U.S. Olympic basketball player at age 18 and was a Silver Medalist in one of her two Olympics. She was three-time college All American, two-time National Player of the Year and two-time National Champion at Old-Dominion University. The Nancy Lieberman Award is now given annually to the most outstanding female point guard in NCAA Division I Basketball. She has been a WNBA player and coach, a WNBA general manager, President of the Women’s Sports Foundation, the second women to coach in the NBA as Assistant for the Sacramento Kings and a BIG3 Head Coach and Champion. She has been sports broadcaster for ABC, NBC, ESPN, FOX Sports Southwest and Bally Sports. She is author of Playbook for Success and is an international motivational speaker. Nancy Lieberman is a member of the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame, the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame, the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Guiding youngsters and helping the disadvantaged has always been a passion for Lieberman and through this philosophy, the Nancy Lieberman Charities www.nancyliebermancharities.org was born. Education and wellness are at the heart of the many programs that the Charities provide, including educational college scholarships, basketball camps and clinics, Laptops, Back-2-School Backpacks, plus funding basketball courts, which currently number 129 courts for the YMCA, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Police Athletic Leagues and Parks and Recreation departments nationwide. She has also supported and participated in numerous national charities throughout the country. She served on the 2013 NCAA Final Four Organizing Committee and on the 2014 Super Bowl Steering Committee. She was recognized as one of the top 40 female athletes of the last 40 years by both ESPN and Sports Illustrated. Lieberman currently sits on the Board of Governors for the NBA Retired Players Association and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. She is a 2023 winner of the 18th annual Coach Wooden Citizenship Award.
Gary Boren
President and Co-Manager, Basketball Shooting, LLC
A graduate of the University of Oklahoma, Boren began his securities career in 1963 with Merrill Lynch, serving retail clients. From 1973 to 1978 he was Vice President of First Main Capital Corporation, dealing exclusively in mergers & acquisitions. He served as Vice President Corporate Finance with Stonegate Securities, Inc. from 1978-1985 and Vice President Corporate Finance with William K. Woodruff & Company from 1985 to 1988. From 1989 until the present Boren has been an independent financial consultant.While remaining active as a business consultant, Boren began serving as Free Throw Shooting Coach for Coach Don Nelson and the Golden State Warriors in 1994. After two years with the Warriors and one with the New York Knicks, he followed Nelson to the Dallas Mavericks, and the 2016-17 season was his 20th and final year with the 2011 NBA Champions. He was Free Throw Coach for USA “Dream Team II”, Gold Medal winners at the World Championship of Basketball in 1994, and shooting coach for the U.S. Women’s National Wheelchair team, Bronze Medal winners at the Atlanta Paralympic Games in 1996.
While continuing to serve the Mavericks, he also served as Shooting Coach for Coach Mike Dunleavy and the Los Angeles Clippers in the 2003-04, 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons. He has given shooting clinics for the coaching staffs at over 50 Division 1 Colleges, as well as for the coaching staffs of the National Teams of Australia, China, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia and Tunisia.
Pat Williams
Senior Marketing Consultant
As one of America’s top motivational, inspirational, and humorous speakers, Pat Williams has addressed thousands of executives in organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies and national associations to universities and nonprofits. Clients include Allstate, American Express, Cisco, Coca-Cola, Disney, Honeywell, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Nike, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Tyson Foods, among others.
Pat has been an NBA General Manager for teams in Chicago, Atlanta, and Philadelphia – including the 1983 NBA Champion 76ers. He is the founder and former Senior Vice-President of the NBA Orlando Magic. He has traded for Julius Erving, “Penny” Hardaway, and Moses Malone and he drafted Charles Barkley, Maurice Cheeks, Darryl Dawkins and Shaquille O’Neal.
He also signed Billy Cunningham, Chuck Daly and Matt Guokas to their first professional coaching contracts. Nineteen of his former players have become NBA head coaches and nine have become college head coaches. A national publication named Pat one of the fifty most influential people in NBA history.
Pat and his wife are the parents of 19 children, fourteen adopted from four nations. He and his family have been featured in Sports Illustrated, Reader’s Digest, Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, and The Wall Street Journal. Pat completed fifty-eight marathons and has authored many inspirational books. He had been a catcher while at Wake Forest. For several years, he played in major league baseball fantasy camps and enjoyed catching Hall of Famers Bob Feller, Rollie Fingers, Bob Gibson, Goose Gossage, Ferguson Jenkins, Phil Niekro, Gaylord Perry, and Tom Seaver.
Deceased 7-17-24
Kevin Albaugh
CFO & Chief Donations Officer
During thirty-six (36) year career with Northrop Grumman, Kevin held various leadership roles in Finance and Accounting for program budgets and cost control, financial reporting, controller for IT services, budget management for global shared services and senior director for financial shared services including global Payroll, Travel services, General Accounting, Cash Management, Accounts payables, and Billings. Additionally, Kevin supported the financial integrations and separation for numerous mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and supported several challenging business systems migrations and upgrades.
Since 2016, Kevin has served as a board member of the Irving Schools Foundation (ISF), a non-profit supporting students and employees of Irving Independent School District. Since 2022, Kevin has been the ISF treasurer.
Advisory Board of Directors
William C. Kennedy, Jr.
Chairman, Advisory Board of Directors
William Kennedy, Jr. is CEO of On-Board Communications, Inc. Bill and Gary Boren began their careers together in the retail securities industry in Dallas and have since invested and supported each other in various business ventures.
On-Board was founded in 2001 by Bill and his brother Don, partners with an exceptional record of creating value through their leadership. Their first company was Instacom, Inc., founded in 1970, taken public by Smith, Barney and Rotan-Mosle in 1981, then sold to ComData, Inc. (NYSE) in 1984. The sale was structured as a tax-free exchange with a total value of $130,000,000. Bill then served as Chairman of ComData until 1985, when he resigned to form HighwayMaster, Inc.
HighwayMaster was successful as well and was taken public in 1995 in a joint underwriting by Merrill Lynch, CS First Boston, and Smith, Barney. In the offering, 18% of the company was sold for $79,000,000, resulting in a total market value of $435,000,000. In 2000 it was sold to Minor Planet, Inc., an English company.
Both previous companies were in transportation, communications, and location technologies. When the non-compete provisions expired, the previous successful engineering team joined Bill and Don at On-Board to ensure further technical and business success. The engineering team collectively secured over 40 patents over the years, pioneering many developments in enhanced cellular networks and GPS for emergency service, route guidance, theft detection, and tracking.
Bob Fisher
Basketball Shooting Consultant, Author, Global Speed -Shooting Demonstrations, Holds 25 Guinness World Records
As a life-long practitioner in the study of basketball shooting, Bob Fisher was heavily influenced by the book, The Physics of Basketball by John Fontanella.
Fontanella’s footprint resulted in Fisher producing a shooting instructional video titled, The Secrets of Shooting (2008). Fisher continued his research, and in 2018 introduced a science-based methodology introducing the centerline concept in his book, Straight Shooter: A game-changing new approach to basketball shooting.
In 2010, at the age of 52, Bob used his knowledge to set his first Guinness World Record, making 50 free throws in one minute. He then proceeded to set an additional 24 Guinness World Records in free throw shooting (e.g., the most made free throws in 30 seconds with 33, standing on one foot in a minute with 49, while alternating hands in two minutes with 100, in one minute while blindfolded with 22, etc.) The record barrage resulted in a front-page story in The New York Times, an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Inside Edition, and the Zheng Da Zong Yi Show (in China.)
Bob Fisher is the CEO of Fisher Sharp Shooters LLC and is widely regarded as one of the top pure shooting coaches in the world. (More information is available at www.secretsofshooting.com.)
Mark Price
Made 40.2% three-point shots and 90.4% free throws over 13 year NBA career
NBA All-Star four times, twice won three-point shooting competition at All-Star break, NBA Playoff free throw record 94.4%, member exclusive 50-40-90 club… NBA players who for an entire season had shooting percentages of 50% from the field, 40% from the three-point line and 90% on free throws. The other players are Larry Bird, Malcolm Brogdon, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Reggie Miller, Steve Nash and Dirk Nowitzki.
Michael Dunleavy, Sr.
NBA player 11 years, Three-Point Shooting Champion one year
Michael Dunleavy Sr. was a former professional player, coach, and general manager in the NBA. He graduated from the University of South Carolina, where he played under coach Frank McGuire. Drafted in1976 by the Philadelphia 76ers, the 6’3″ guard played for them for one full season along with Hall-of-Fame teammate Julius Erving and made the finals in a losing effort against the Portland Trail Blazers. Dunleavy then split the following season between Philadelphia and the Houston Rockets after being traded mid-season. Houston made the finals, and this time Dunleavy played a large role for his team in the series, including scoring a game-high 28 points to help lead the Rockets to a Game 4 win, but yet again his team lost, this time to the Boston Celtics.
Dunleavy spent one season with the San Antonio Spurs and two with the Milwaukee Bucks before retiring due to chronic back pain. His best season as a player was with Houston in 1980–81, when he averaged 10.5 points per game and started on a team that played in the NBA Finals. During his retirement, Dunleavy worked in an investment firm. Dunleavy is the father of former professional basketball player Mike Dunleavy Jr.
Michael Dunleavy, Jr.
Player for 2001 NCAA Champion Duke University
Michael Joseph Dunleavy Jr. is an American professional basketball executive and former player who is the general manager for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils, earning consensus second-team All-American honors in 2002.
Dunleavy was selected by Golden State with the third overall pick of the 2002 NBA draft. He played in the NBA for the Warriors, Indiana Pacers, Milwaukee Bucks, Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers and Atlanta Hawks.
While growing up, Dunleavy attended a residential sports camp in Eagle River, Wisconsin called Camp Menominee. In 2008, Camp Menominee honored Dunleavy by naming its basketball courts “The Mike Dunleavy Jr. Courts”.
Craig Impelman
President and Author “Wooden’s Wisdom”, personal development emails based on teachings and philosophies of Hall of Fame Coach John R. Wooden
Craig Impelman is the author of Wooden’s Wisdom, the personal development and motivational E-Coaching Modules that are distributed weekly to over 10,000 recipients (www.woodenswisdom.com). Impelman spent 12 years as an assistant college basketball coach with stops at UCLA (6 years), Pepperdine, Weber State and St. Mary’s University, followed by 22 years in the private business sector. Impelman attended UCLA and graduated with a degree in Business Administration from St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas.
Impelman’s extraordinary enthusiasm brings leadership skills learned from his grandfather-in-law, philosopher and former UCLA Coach John Wooden, that has facilitated continual growth in numerous organizations while “getting the right result the right way.” Impelman directed his annual Summer Basketball Camps in Southern California for thirty two years and Coach Wooden taught at all Impelman Camps from 1982 through 2008.
The close family and mentoring relationship between Coach Wooden and Impelman leads Craig into his thirty eighth year of sharing the wisdom of Coach Wooden that has fostered success for individuals, businesses and teams of all types worldwide.
Impelman is an accomplished public speaker and his topic is “The Wooden Way”.
Commentary on Craig Impelman from the son and daughter of John Wooden:
Craig—You’re the best. I’ve always said that you were the one to pass on Dad’s teaching, you know Dad’s Pyramid better than anyone. You have that quality and spirit that makes people of all ages listen. So glad that you want to do this because you are the one that should. You are a TEACHER – Jim Wooden Nobody in our family has a better understanding of the ideas and philosophy of my father than Craig Impelman – Nan Wooden
Leta Andrews
Coached High School girls 52 years, winningest boys or girls high school coach in U.S. History with 1,416 wins. Women’s Hall of Fame, Nominee for 2022 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
After Leta Andrews had already put in many years coaching Texas high school girls’ basketball, she called her friend and mentor John Wooden for advice about when she should retire. Wooden, who coached UCLA to 10 NCAA championships, told her not to look for a special sign or special moment to signal a time to leave. “You’ll know when it’s time,” Wooden told her. “The light bulb will come on.”
After 52 years as a coach and teacher, the coach who compiled a national record 1,416 career victories, retired, ending her last pursuit of a second state championship to match the one she won in 1990. Her career victories are the most in girls’ or boys’ basketball, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations.
To put Andrews’ longevity in perspective, she had had already been coaching a decade before Title IX became the law of the land in 1972 to push gender equity at schools receiving federal funding. She’s seen girls’ basketball go from a six-player game to five and from half court to full court. Age had never been a deterrent. Even well into her 70s, Andrews was known for having the energy to run bleacher steps with her players, or get into team drills to show them how to play defense.
She counts as her mentors some of the coaching giants in both men’s and women’s basketball. Early in her career, Andrews sought advice from college coaches, including Kentucky’s Adolph Rupp and North Carolina’s Dean Smith.
Andrews raised three daughters in the game and all three went on to play for the University of Texas’ powerhouse teams under Hall of Fame coach Jody Conradt, who won 1,000 games at the college level. Two of them became coaches and beat her into retirement. Daughter Linda Sue Andrews Waggoner was so successful she made it all the way to the Texas High School Basketball Hall of Fame.
“Anybody can coach Xs and Os,” Leta Andrews said. “It’s about love and a passion to work.”
Pat Williams
Pat Williams is a former American sports executive, who most recently served as senior vice president of the Orland Magic.
Williams began his career as a minor league baseball player, and later joined the front office of his team. In the late 1960s he moved into basketball and was General Manager of the Philadelphia 76ers, helping build the team that won the 1983 NBA title by trading for Julius Erving and Moses Malone, and drafting Maurice Cheeks and Andrew Toney.
He joined an investment group that created the Orlando Magic. The league awarded the Orlando Magic an expansion spot in 1987, with the team making its debut in 1989. He served as the franchise’s inaugural manager and helped the Magic reach the 1995 NBA Finals by drafting Shaquille O’Neal and trading a draft pick for Penny Hardaway. In his NBA career, Williams led his teams to 23 NBA Playoffs and five NBA Finals. He won four NBA draft lotteries, including back-to-back winners in 1992 and 1993. Williams signed Billy Cunningham, Chuck Daly and Matt Goukas to their first professional coaching contracts and nineteen of his former players have become NBA head coaches. In 2019, after a career that has spanned more than 56 years, including 30-plus years with the Magic and 51 years in the NBA, Pat Williams announced his retirement.
He is a member of the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame after catching for the Deacon baseball team, including the 1962 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship team. He was inducted into the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame in 2001. He won the DECA Entrepreneurial Spirit award at DECA’s International Career Development Conference in 2011. On February 24, 2012, Williams was announced as that year’s winner of the John Bunn Award, presented annually by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for significant lifetime contributions to the sport.
Widely recognized in the sports world as a consummate promoter and astute talent scout, Williams is also one of te country’s foremost motivational speakers. Among the books Willias has authored are The Power Within You, Nothing But Winners, Twelve-Part Harmony, Rekindled, Go For the Magic, How to Be Like Walt Disney, How to Be Like Mike Jordan and How to Be Like Rich DeVos.
Coach Val Rhodes
For over 43 years, Coach Val Rhodes has worked with the youth in the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex. For 20 years Coach Rhodes served as Lead Coach for the Dallas Mavericks Hoop Camp for Youth.
He is the former Head basketball Coach at H. Grady Spruce High School, where many of his players have gone on to play Division I Sports, play in the NFL, the NBA and professionally overseas. He has been a seven time District Coach of the Year and a past President of the Dallas High School Coaches Association. He currently offers a wide range of personal services as detailed at www.rhodeseducationalnetwork.com
