Elite 75 Prep Event Speakers

• Eric Short Guest Speaker 2018 High School Camp

  Eric Short is a New York basketball legend. He played on the basketball courts of LIU, and in the streets of Brooklyn NYC. Eric has been the Elite 75 Prep Camp director since the very first camp in 2006. Eric left the very first camp and two days later found himself going through a triple bypass surgery on his heart. Through many life obstacles, Mr. Short is still here with us, and still running the camp to this day!
  

• Keith Gabriel Guest Speaker 2017 High School Camp

  Keith Gabriel is a successful college and professional basketball player. Also was named a Charlotte Agenda 30 Under 30 class of 2017
  

• Josh Eze Guest Speaker 2016 High School Camp

  oach Josh is a certified Life Coach that lives to help people UNPLUG from the negative influences of Society and PLUG into Christ. His heart is for people to discover their purpose and live their life connected to the eternal source that will never fail them
  

• Omar Carter Guest Speaker 2015 HS Camp

  The O.C. Foundation was founded in 2014 following the sudden and unexpected event that occured to Omar Carter while playing. Omar is an energetic, humble, happy and seemingly healthy 26 year old that suffered Sudden Cardiac arrest. Omar collapsed on the basketball court at Grady Cole Center in Charlotte, NC on July 11th, 2013 just after having returned from the Dominican Republic where he was playing Professionally. No one knew that Omar suffered a Sudden Cardiac arrest, instead they thought he passed out from heat exhaustion. As a Survivor of a 13 minute Cardiac arrest, Omar Carter turned his passion of helping others into action and is making his life’s mission to stop any other family from losing their child due to a lack of awareness, screening and immediate treatment of such a preventable tragedy. The Foundation will focus on the training of athletes and families in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), the use of automated external defibrillators (AED), and work to educate the public on cardiovasulcar education.
  

• Paul Biancardi Guest Speaker 2014(High School Camp)

  ESPN basketball recruiting expert Paul Biancardi will speak to this years 2014 campers. Biancardi, who spent 2007-08 as an assistant coach on Rick Majerus' staff at Saint Louis University, is the national recruiting director for ESPN Scouts Inc. He has 18 years of coaching experience at the Division I level. He was an assistant at Boston University, Boston College and Ohio State before becoming the head coach at Wright State, where he earned Horizon League Coach of the Year honors in the 2003-04 season.
  

• Mike Sutton Guest Speaker 2013 (Middle School Showcase Camp)

  Mike Sutton is a retired American college basketball coach and the former head men's basketball coach at Tennessee Technological University. Before taking the TTU head coaching job he was an assistant coach at the University of Kentucky.
  

• Mandisa Watkins Turner Guest Speaker 2013 (High School Camp)

  Mandisa Turner Watkins is the CEO & founder of Bownce, LLC. Bownce is a web-enabled platform utilizing social media that dramatically reduces the cost of recruiting. This innovative platform allows college coaches to build successful programs by targeting high school recruits in ways that have never been done before. Bownce will maximize recruiting efforts by saving time and money and unlike competitive sites will improve the overall quality of eligible recruits.
  

• Dave Telep Guest Speaker 2013 (High School Camp)

  With the last High School event he would attend. Dave Telep, previous sports and High School basketball analyst, addressed the 2013 Elite 75 Prep camp with a ending speech that left many players motivated and left many spectators touched and moved. This was Dave's last event before taking a job as a NBA scout for the San Antonio Spurs.
  

• Randy Peele Guest Speaker 2013 (Unsigned Senior Camp)

  Randy Peele is a men's basketball coach that was most recently the head men's basketball coach at Winthrop University. Peele previously held the same position at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. While at Winthrop Peele had a taste of success, winning the 2008 and 2010 Big South Conference Tournaments.
  

• Billy Edelin Guest Speaker 2013 (Middle School Camp)

  A former college basketball player for the Syracuse Orange from Silver Spring, Maryland; he was a member of Syracuse's 2003 NCAA National Championship team with Carmelo Anthony. Attended Oak Hill Academy and led them to a 33-0 record and a high school national championship. Edelin also played for the U.S. in the National 18 & Under World Championships, held in Douai, France. The U.S. squad won the event for the first time, and Edelin played a large part, scoring 22 points and eight assists in the title game, a 102-99 victory against Canada. He now helps develop young players in the Upstate NY area and continues to motivate youth through basketball.
  

• Rodney Monroe Guest Speaker 2012 (Middle School Camp)

  Rodney Monroe is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the Atlanta Hawks in the 2nd round (30th overall) of the 1991 NBA Draft. A 6'3" shooting guard, Monroe played only one year in the NBA with the Hawks during the 1991–92 season, appearing in 38 games and scoring a total of 131 points. Monroe also played professionally in Australia, Greece, Israel, Italy, Spain, and the Philippines. Currently, Monroe is the director of basketball operations and men's basketball coach at SouthLake Christian Academy in Huntersville, North Carolina.Monroe played collegiately at North Carolina State and was ACC's Player of the Year in 1991 after averaging 27.0 points per game. He broke David Thompson's school scoring record at NC State and is 4th on the ACC's all-time scoring list with 2,551 career points. In 2002, Monroe was named to the ACC 50th Anniversary men's basketball team as one of the fifty greatest players in Atlantic Coast Conference history. "Fire and Ice" was the popular nickname given to Monroe and backcourt teammate Chris Corchiani during their years with the Wolfpack.
  

• Tony Bruin Guest Speaker 2011 (High School Camp)

  Tony Bruin was one of the most highly recruited players in Syracuse history. A high school phenom, 'Red' (so called because of the reddish tint to his hair) was a gifted athlete with a tremendous vertical leap. He was a high school All-American, and won the National AAU Junior Men's Championship in 1979, awarded the tournament's MVP. He had a successful career at Syracuse, and was one of the tri-captains his junior and senior seasons, though he he never lived up to the high expectations that preceded his arrival to campus. Bruin had a tendency to have big games during nationally televised games, in an era when most Syracuse games were not televised. With his vertical leap, he was a spectacular player near the hoop, especially above the rim with several highlight slam dunks. His perimeter shooting was peculiar in that he put virtually no rotation on his shots; in essence he shot a "knuckle ball". Even with the unorthodox shooting style, he was a solid free throw shooter.He missed portions of his junior and senior seasons due to injury. Bruin was drafted by the Philadelphia 76'ers in the 7th round of the 1983 draft.
  

• Keith Gatlin Guest Speaker 2008 (High School Camp)

  Head Men's Basketball Coach at Wesleyan Christian ACC Legend, and Former McDonalds All-American McDonald’s High School All-American 1983 North Carolina High School basketball player of the year 1983 University of Maryland Basketball 1984-1988 University of Maryland – BA African-American Studies Helped lead the Terps to the ACC championship over the Duke Blue Devils in 1984 Left Maryland as the Terps all-time assist man and one of the best point guards to ever play in the ACC Played Professionally: In the CBA, WBL, USBL, and Euro Leagues Keith Gatlin founded 334 Sports where he worked in player development for high school, college and professional players from around
  

• Stephen Miss Guest Speaker 2007 (High School Camp)

  Head men's basketball coach at Belmont Abbey. Prior to joining the Abbey, Miss served one season as an assistant coach at Towson University during the 2003-04 season. That year, the Tigers doubled the previous seasons win total and recorded the program’s first ever Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) conference tournament victory. From 1998 until 2003, Stephen was an assistant at the University of Georgia, beginning as a graduate student assistant and eventually becoming administrative assistant for the Bulldogs. While Stephen was on staff at Georgia, the Bulldogs won the Southeastern Conference (SEC) Eastern Division title in 2002, made post-season appearances in the 2001 and 2002 NCAA Tournaments as well as in the 1999 NIT, and were ranked among the top 25 teams in the country for the last 10 weeks of the 2002-03 campaign.
  

• Jenny Yoop Guest Speaker 2007 (Girls Camp)

  Former Queens University Head Coach Womens - Collective responsibility, self-confidence, enthusiasm and passion, toughness and an unrelenting work ethic are the foundation qualities the Royals women?s basketball team worked diligently to establish in the first year under head coach, Jenny Yopp. In 2006-2007 the second-year head coach is thrilled about the abilities and potential of her players and support staff. Coaching the Royals marks the fifth collegiate program Yopp has embraced in an attempt to help provide a catalyst toward a new level of success for the women?s basketball program. Her background as a point-guard for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as a first assistant at the highest level of college competition, and as a head coach at two reputable NCAA Division I institutions gives Yopp a broad-based experience, exceptional recruiting capability, and an understanding of the priority to graduate all of her student-athletes.
  

• Al Wood Guest Speaker 2005-06 Middle School Camp

  UNC Chapel Hill and NBA Legend Al Wood possessed one of the sweetest jump shots in ACC history and led Carolina in scoring in each of his final three years as a Tar Heel with averages of 17.8, 19.0 and 18.1 points per game in 1979-81. Wood was named first-team All-America in 1981 after he led UNC to the NCAA finals versus Indiana. He played brilliantly throughout the '81 postseason, earning MVP honors at the West Regional. He capped off his senior campaign with 39 points, an NCAA semifinal record, and 10 rebounds in a 78-65 win over Virginia in the Final Four. Wood is fourth in Tar Heel history in scoring with 2,015 points, one of only five Carolina players to compile at least 2,000 points. Dramatic highlights filled his career. Always a clutch performer, as a sophomore he hit a dramatic, long jumper with three seconds to play that gave the Tar Heels a 54-53 win at Maryland. As a senior, he totaled 25 points and 17 rebounds in a victory over previously undefeated Wake Forest and had 33 points and six steals against top-ranked Virginia. Wood never missed a game in his UNC career, playing in 126. He was a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Team. Drafted by the Atlanta Hawks in the 1st round (4th pick) of the 1981 NBA draft.
  

• Byron Dinkins Guest Speaker 2005-06 Middle School Camp

  UNCC at Charlotte Legend and NBA former Pro, Euro League Star One of UNCC at Charlotte All-Time leaders Drafted by the Houston Rockets and Played for the San Antonio Spurs Greece European Basketball superstar