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Saturday, September 7, 2024

Basketball: Writing, Leadership, Educational Qualifications

"Good artists borrow, great artists steal." - Picasso 

There's no prescribed list of coaching qualifications. It's not like applying to be a NASA Mission Specialist where knowing Russian, pilot training, SCUBA, electronics, and other skills defines more qualifications. 

Coaching Experience: 

  • 20 years of coaching Middle School travel basketball
  • Offseason skill development coaching (two D1 scholarship players emerged from head coaching of a total of 25 players)
Teaching Experience:
  • ICU Director for over 20 years, includes teaching nurses
  • Former Assistant Professor of Medicine, Uniformed Services Univ.
  • Holland Resident teaching award, Bethesda Naval Hospital
  • Instructor in Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
Writing Experience: 
  • The Simple Guide to Girls Basketball (Amazon, Ebook)
  • Ron Sen basketball blog (over 4,000 entries)
  • #47 on Feedspot's RSS 90 basketball blogs to read in 2024
Playing Experience:
  • D1 baseball walk-on Harvard University
  • Three sport high school athlete, Middlesex League Soccer All-Star 
  • Captain, 1973 Massachusetts Division I Basketball Sectional champion
  • Wakefield High School Athletic Hall of Fame (1973 Boys Basketball Team)
Leadership Experience:
  • Former President, Medical Staff, Melrose-Wakefield Hospital
  • Chief Resident in Medicine, 1984, Bethesda Naval Hospital 
  • Former ICU Director, triple boarded in Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care Medicine
  • Former Research and Education Officer, Pulmonary Department, Bethesda Naval Hospital 
  • Wakefield High School Inaugural Hall of Fame honoree
  • Board Member, Melrose High School Athletic Hall of Fame 
Read some articles and judge them on merit. Steal and share some ideas.