 COACH AND DIRECTOR OF THE NH SPARTANS/LADY SPARTANS  |
Chris Coates has extensive basketball experience as both a player and a coach. He started at Winnacunnet high school in Hampton, NH where he was Mr. NH basketball and a High School ALL-American. Receiving numerous offers to play in college, Coach Coates decided on Keene State College where he was a two time All-American and National player of the year nominee. After graduation, he went on to have a successful overseas professional career playing in Australia, France, Hungary and Norway where he was 2004 league MVP and leading scorer at 25.5 points per game. He also played in the NBA minor leagues of the XBA Dakota Lightning and the Adirondack Wildcats of the USBL summer pro league. Chris was a player/coach for a season in France and coached a handful of games in the pro ABA basketball league for the Manchester Millrats and Boston Frenzy. Coach Coates has taken his 9th Grade Spartans Boys team to the AAU National Tournament every year since 2008 seasons and his 8th Grade Boys since 2010. |
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Jason Campbell, son of Hall of Fame basketball coach Bruce Campbell, attended Hillsboro-Deering High School where he was a three year varsity player in basketball, soccer, golf, and track & field. Coach Campbell was an all-state javelin thrower and still holds his school record. After high school, he decided on Keene State College. There he was a track athlete for four, where he won his conference and placed in regionals. Deciding to concentrate on track, but still having a love for basketball, Coach Campbell stayed with the Keene State College team working as a student assistant with the coaching staff and sports information office. Since college, he has been coaching youth and high school programs, camps and AAU with NHHDS and various school systems. Last season Coach Campbell led our new Lady Spartans program in Derry, NH while coaching a very Talented 5th Grade boys team and 6th Grade boys team that both won the State Tournament and made an impressive run in the AAU Nationals. |
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 COACH AND SPARTANS STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING ADMIN.  |
Craig Favara has been affiliated with the NH Spartans since 2009 and in 2011 became the exclusive strength and conditioning coach for Spartans/Lady Spartans athletes. Favara has been coaching AAU for since 2009, but has been training high school, college and professional athletes since 2005. Craig played his high school ball at Exeter and college basketball at ST Joes in Maine. |
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 SPARTANS COACH/TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR  |
Tim Lee offers a wide range of talents as a basketball player, coach and mentor. As a player, he ranks 6th highest scoring leader in NH high school history and a scholar athlete at Southern New Hampshire University, where he holds the record for most 3-point field goals made in a career as well as ranks 26th scoring leader in school history. As a coach, he has served 3 years at the high school JV level, 1 year in the AAU circuit, 1 semester with national power-house Notre Dame Prep and has directed youth player development clinics out of the Lakes region of New Hampshire. Aside from playing and coaching, Coach Lee is a great resource for player skill development and strength and conditioning mentor. |
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 SPARTANS COACH  |
Long time high school basketball coach at Farmington High School, NH. Two state championship teams. His teams reached quarter-finals or better 16 out of 21 seasons. Coach Lee has been a camp director, motivational speaker and clinician at basketball camps throughout the Northeast. He has coached AAU teams ages 13-19 and participated in state, New England and National tournaments. Was a member of the NHIAA Basketball Committee, Classification Committee and Executive Council before his retirement from education in 2009. Mike has been awarded numerous coaching awards throughout his career including NH nominee for National Coach of the Year as well as having coached many New Hampshire All-Star and select teams. Married to wife, Candy. Has two sons, Josh, an assistant basketball coach at Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro and Tim, a former scholarship basketball player at Southern New Hampshire University and member of the Spartans program. |
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 SPORTSZONE LADY SPARTANS COACH  |
Stephanie Steckis brings a wealth of coaching and playing experience to the organization. She was a four year local varsity player beginning her career at Manchester Central and ending at Manchester Memorial High Schools. Heavily recruited out of high school, Coach Steckis decided to take her game to Europe where she played professionally in Italy and Germany. She has been a successful AAU coach since 2004 where she is a master of developing and refining top post players. In 2011 Coach Steckis helped lead the SportsZone Lady Spartans 4th Grade to the programs first ever placement in the State Tournament. |
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 NATIONAL SPARTANS COACH  |
Lewis Atkins began with the NH Spartans in 2009 and has a very impressive basketball resume. He was a three year starter at Romulus High School in Michigan where he was one of the top scoring players in the state. Lewis was heavily recruited by over ten Division I schools and finally decided to take a full scholarship to Alabama A&M University. After college Lewis had offers to play professionally overseas but he decided to start his coaching career. Coach Atkins stayed at Alabama A&M where he was an assistant coach for 4 years. As an assistant, Coach Atkins was in charge of recruiting, scouting and running morning skills and drills practices. |
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 SPARTANS COACH |
Brian has over ten years of basketball coaching experience at the High School and Jr. High level. He coached the Nashua Lynx, a High School AAU program, for several years and won multiple State Championships as well as successful appearances at Nationals. He’s been a an assistant coach for a couple years with the Rockettes and won a State Championship last year. He’s also been the Head coach at Nashua Catholic Jr. High School as well as multiple years of recreation and travel coaching experience. In 2011 Coach Mackey led his 7th grade team to a Silver Medal finish in the State Championship. |
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 LADY SPARTANS COACH  |
Paul Williams has over ten years of basketball coaching experience, having coached both boys and girls basketball. He has coached AAU, CYO, school, travel and rec programs, again for both boys and girls, including a NH State Championship title in CYO Cadet boys, with a berth to the NE regionals. The last five years Coach Williams has worked within the Legacy girls' travel program as a head coach for the 8th grade girls' program which competes in the highly competitive River Valley League and helped to develop a boys program which competes in the Manchester Suburban Basketball League. In 2010 Coach Williams joined the St. Christopher CYO school program, working with students to develop basketball players to compete at the middle school level and beyond. |
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 NATIONAL SPARTANS AND LADY SPARTANS COACH  |
Kenny Kimber began with the NH Spartans in 2003. He is a basketball fanatic with an extensive basketball resume. Coach Kimber was a 3 year varsity basketball player at Portsmouth High School. He was then recruited to play at Wentworth Institute of Technology where he was a starter at the point guard position for his junior and senior years. After College Kenny Kimber started his coaching career at Portsmouth Middle School where he was the Boys head basketball coach. He then moved onto head coach the Portsmouth Junior Varsity boy’s team and was the Portsmouth Varsity boy’s assistant coach. He also coached as the Varsity boy’s assistant and JV coach of New Market high school. Coach Kimber's 10th Grade boys team set a Spartan best making it to the Semi-Finals of the AAU National Championship. |
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