Staff Members
At Collegiate Prep, we understand that our product is adding value to each player that trains under our tutelage. Therefore, as the interest in our programming has grown we are committed to practicing "responsible growth". Simply stated, we will only grow with the proven success of the staff that joins our family.
From the beginning, Coach Tucker has been committed to only inviting quality individuals who are proven teachers of the game possessing excellent communication skills coupled with a youthful enthusiasm. Our staff is comprised of former college coaches and players as well as highly successful youth coaches that have a proven record of success. Yes, it is nice to have a solid resume of experience, but at the end of the day the parents of our students are more concerned about the job we are doing with their child and less impressed with what our staff accomplished in the past.
Finally, with the addition of our relationships built with local recreation departments and church programs it has provided an opportunity to have our gifted college and high school students to actually become teachers. There is something very powerful for a current youth player to have such close access and gain the insight of a person they hope to become.
As an added protection to our families we have all our staff members perform criminal background checks and get drug tested. This is just another way to prove that we are more committed to operating in a highly professional manner than the competition.
Bert Tucker - President and Head Coach
Barbara Glass - Director of Operations
GA Staff:
Careo Wells: Coach Wells was an over achieving self made player who earned a scholarship at Central Washington. Coach Wells has worked with a national basketball camp company before coming to Collegiate Prep. Over the last 2 years Coach Wells has done a tremendous job and built a great level of trust from both players and their parents. She has continually taken on a greater role within the company. Currently Coach Wells directs some of our satellite programming during the summer including the City of Roswell Recreation and Parks Department.
Dennis Walsh: Coach Walsh possesses a wealth of basketball knowledge and has played and coached at the highest levels of not only amateur, but professional basketball. Coach Walsh hails from NY City and played collegiately at Providence College of the Big East Conference. He played professionally overseas as well as toured for 5 years with the Harlem Globetrotters. Later in his career he coached Division I for 17 years at various schools including Northeastern University, Lamar and Monmouth. Coach Walsh compliments his knowledge of the game with an unmatched amount of patience.
Brian Whitmer: Coach Whitmer is currently the 8th grade coach at Otwell Middle School in Cumming, GA. In 2007, he led his team to a surprising County Championship with hard nosed team defense and an extremely unselfish passing game style offense. He followed that up with a second County Championship with an entirely new crop of players in 2008. Coach Whitmer possesses a fiery personality, but balances that with a degree in special education. He is knowledgeable, dedicated and a great motivator. The players who work with and play for him are improved rather quickly due to his infectious work ethic and enthusiasm.
Greg Martin Coach Martin is currently the varsity boy's assistant at 5-A Duluth High School. He works along side Head Coach Jonathan Hemingway who worked with Collegiate Prep back in 2006. Coach Martin is a student of the game with an inquisitive nature regarding strategy as well as player tendencies. He possesses a tremendous internal drive to be successful and inspires the players under his tutelage to do the same. During most sessions on the court it is a challenge for the players to "out sweat" Coach Martin. He is also a seasoned summer camp coach at UGA, Lipscomb, GA Tech.
James Johnson highly successful youth coach with a proven communication style and motivator
Martin Hogan Varsity Head Coach St. Francis, ATL Celtics AAU-Dwight Howard, Josh Smith, Randolph Morris
Jim Harris Florida Southern former player, contagious motivator
Julian Schmoke Dartmouth graduate, JV Coach @ Chattahoochee HS
(This page is presently a work in progress and will have additional information coming).