NBSA Management Team and Founding Members
NBSA Management Team
Dave Gibbons, Executive Director and Founding Member
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Dr. Jim Poteet, President & Founding Member
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Presently, President and Commissioner of the Association of Christian College Athletics http://www.accathletics.org. Dr. Poteet has an extensive background in sports and education, including as a basketball player, college coach, athletic director, and classroom teacher.
Himself a champion free throw shooter (96%+ in competition and exhibitions), Jim’s doctoral dissertation – The Paradox of the Free Throw – was written while working with Dr. Tom Amberry, holder of the Guinness World Record in free throw shooting. Dr. Poteet is internationally recognized as one of basketball’s free throw masters. |
Ed Palubinskas, Vice President & Founding Member
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Ed has many innovative instructional aides to his credit. He has produced some of the best DVDs on the art of shooting and he’s inventor of the “Smart Ball” – to assist players of all ages to improve shooting skill. See more at http://www.freethrowmaster.com. Despite his many shooting accomplishments, Eddie P is probably best known for coaching Shaquille O’Neal. While under Ed’s tutledge, Shaq’s free throw success rate went from 33% to 66%, in one season during his Los Angeles Laker tenure. In 2009, after working with Ed in pre-season, the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA set a new team pro free throw shooting percentage of over 85%. |
“The Surgeon General of Free Throw”, Eddie P is universally known as the best active free throw shooter on the planet. Still competing today, Ed is shooting over 99% in competition and exhibitions. He is the founder and Board Member of the NBSA.
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James Burns, Vice President & Founding Member James is the president of CMS Website Services, a technology firm that specializes in developing websites and applications using open source software and an ambassador for COMACO, a non-profit organization that saves wildlife and ecosystems while reducing human poverty and hunger. James started shooting basketball at age 6, has been a fanatic ever since, and is a 90%+ free throw shooter. |
Ronn Wyckoff, Secretary/Treasurer & Founding Member
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Ronn has more than 55 years experience in basketball as a player, coach, lecturer, author, courtside commentator, referee, and international basketball consultant. He has coached from the playgrounds to four national teams and specializes in coaching both youth players and youth coaches, which is the specialty of his website Top Basketball Coaching. He is an international advocate of youth sports being for the youth (not the adults). Ronn has also been a classroom teacher and athletic director, and is the author of several basketball teaching books and DVDs. |
Founding members at practice session in Los Angeles, Jan. 2010
Back Row L-R: Jim S., Ed, Ronn, Rick
Kneeling L-R: Arnold, Bob
Founding Members
Jim Schatz
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Jim "Makevery" Schatz is one of the leading authorities on basketball's free throw. Jim is the author of, as yet unpublished book, "The Guide To Free Throw Mastery - Beyond Expectation" and is the originator of the NBSA. Jim's background is professional sports. He coached and played on the NRC racquetball pro tour during the early days of racquetball, was an open tennis player and played volleyball in college. He also was the founder, president and tournament director of the Southern California Racquetball Association. |
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Rick has made 100 consecutive free throws at over 259 YMCAs, and over 50 other gyms and outdoor basketball courts. Rick made 1,000 consecutive free throws 12 times, with a best of 2,118 free throws in a row. |
Rick Rosser
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President/Owner CJN Auditing and Consulting Services, Baton Rouge, LA. |
Cindy Morrison
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Rod Kirschner has 38 years of coaching and teaching basketball. He has coached at all levels of basketball, having won over 700 games in his career, coaching in Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Kentucky, and Louisiana. Coach “K” has worked over 100 basketball camps around the U.S. and conducted camps for the Belgian government in summer 2000. |
Rod Kirschner|
A member of the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association, Bob has coached at the youth and high school levels for over 20 years. Read about Bob's amazing world record shooting feats at: www.worldamazingrecords.com/2010/03/bob-fisher-fastest-basketball-shooter.html
Arnold Heilemann Arnold Heilemann is an entrepreneur, businessman, investor, nonprofit organization founder, and president and community leader. He has a master’s degree in engineering and owns his own business in the Santa Clarita Valley, in the north part of Los Angeles. Arnold is a student of free throw mastery, a basketball fan and brings his over 50 years of successful business, management and administrative experience to our association. |
Bob Fisher- Bob Owen
- Jas Thiara
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Honorary Members Dr. Tom Amberry
Fred Newman
Ted St. Martin of www.sharpshooterfreethrows.com
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