Hoop Factory Team

Vidal Massiah

"Reading Materials"

Vidals Pick:
Coaching The Mental Game

Vidal Massiah
Vidal Massiah founded THE HOOP FACTORY in the summer of 2003 after returning from playing overseas and realizing the desperate need of a basketball training facility in Toronto.

Vidal is a product of the Toronto area Eastern Commerce saints, and has built an impressive resume for himself since graduating in 1998. Upon graduation Vidal sorted through a number of Division one scholarship offers and decided to attend St. Bonaventure University on a full athletic scholarship. After a four year career at St. Bonaventure Vidal graduated with a degree in marketing and began playing professionally throughout Europe. Vidal continues to pursue his basketball dreams and has gone on to be crowned back to back King of Toronto, and have the honour of representing Canada as a member of the Senior Mens National team.

Through Vidals experiences in North America and Europe, he has compiled a great deal of knowledge on how to prepare and train for basketball. He is the epitome of hard work, dedication, and sacrifice. His gift for training and the passion he demonstrates in each and every training sessions has proved to be a recipe for success, not only in basketball but in life.

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Dion Glover

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A McDonald's first-team All-American, the 6'5" shooting guard Glover was selected by the Atlanta Hawks with the 20th overall pick of the 1999 NBA Draft, from Georgia Tech. He played for the Hawks until February 2004. Glover also played with the Toronto Raptors, then appeared in seven regular season games with the San Antonio Spurs, during the 2004–05 season.

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Akil Augustine

"Reading Materials"

Akil's Pick:
The 7 Habits..

Akil Says:"This book is one of the 7 most effective books I've ever read."

Akil Augustine

Akil Augustine is a founding partner of the hoop factory and also runs ScreenSavior Entertainment with clients like Maple leaf Sports and Entertainment, LeafsTV, amd Raptors NBATV. You can catch him this season interviewing the NBA's 07/08 rookie class on "NBAXL" (Sports-Net, RNBATV). He is also working in conjunction with the National Film Board of Canada on a yet to be titled Documentary. Akil is currently a Host for NBA Tv Canada.


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Waled Belcher

Waleed Belcher has worked as a trainer at THE HOOP FACTORY since 2003.  In 2009, he was promoted to site coordinator as well as head trainer of the downtown camp. Waleed has over 10 years of experience coaching high school basketball, most of them at the nationally recognized basketball program at Eastern Commerce High School in Toronto.  In high school, Waleed  also played his high school basketball at Eastern Commerce on teams that featured some of Toronto’s all time great  basketball players such as Doug Johnson, Jamaal Magloire, Collin Charles, and also the founder of THE HOOP FACTORY, Vidal Massiah.  Waleed played 4 years of post secondary basketball, splitting his time between George Brown College and Ryerson University in Toronto.  He graduated from Ryerson University with a Bachelor of Commerce in Business Management.  Currently, Waleed is pursuing his Bachelor of Education at York University.

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Kirho Peterkin

 

Starred at Canadian powerhouse Eastern Commerce. Played at NJCAA as well as NCAA Div 2 level. Has experience coaching at various camps and clinics, including The Hoop Factory, Atlantic Cape Camps, Philadelphia 76ers youth camp as well as Shoot for the Stars Camp.

 

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