International Basketball Coaches Clinic

Tara VanDerveer

Head Women’s Basketball Coach – Stanford University

Coach VanDerveer is the all-time winningest coach in women’s college basketball. She has been a member of both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (2011) and the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame (2002) and is considered one of the top coaches in the history of the sport. She is an icon not only in college but internationally as well as she has also coached the USA Basketball National team winning a gold medal in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games with a remarkable run of 60 consecutive wins.

Coach VanDerveer’s numbers say it all! A five-time national coach of the year (1988, 1989, 1990, 2011, 2021) and 16-time Pac-12 Coach of the Year, VanDerveer, who prior to coming to Stanford served as head coach for a combined seven seasons at Idaho (1978-80) and Ohio State (1980-85), has accumulated an impressive 1,125-255 (.815) record in her 42 years as a collegiate head coach and a 973-204 (.827) record over 35 seasons at Stanford. She has led the Stanford teams to three NCAA Championships (1990, 1992, 2021), one of four coaches in the history of the sport to win three titles; with 13 NCAA Final Four appearances, 23 Pac-12 regular-season titles, 14 Pac-12 Tournament crowns, and 32 trips to the NCAA Tournament, coach VanDerveer has built Stanford into a national powerhouse.

On December 15, 2021, she became the sport’s winningest coach, breaking Tennessee’s Pat Summitt’s mark of 1,098 wins. Stanford finished the year 31-2, winning both the Pac-12 regular-season and tournament championships, earning the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, and claimed the national championship for the first time since 1992.

Overall, many of her players have earned collegiate awards, All American Honors, Player of the Year awards, and many of them have moved on successfully at the professional level. Stanford has had 30 players play in a regular-season WNBA game since the onset of the league, with 12 first-round draft picks out of its 27 all-time selections, including 2016 WNBA MVP Nneka Ogwumike, and has had seven players win a total of eight WNBA titles.

Mitch Henderson

Head Men’s Basketball Coach – Princeton University

Mitch Henderson is the third-winningest coach in the history of the Princeton University men’s basketball program. Under his coaching and guidance, ten Princeton alumni have gone on to professional careers, including Devin Cannady ’20 who played eight games for the Orlando Magic in the 2020-21 season and was the NBA G League MVP with the Lakeland Magic.

In 2017, Henderson led his team to the NCAA Tournament and a first-round near-upset of 14th-ranked and fifth-seeded Notre Dame. The 2017 season saw Henderson win Ivy League Coach of the Year honors for the first time in the third year of the award.

While maintaining Princeton’s place as an annual contender in the Ivy League, Henderson has challenged the team out-of-conference, playing teams such as against Duke, Syracuse, North Carolina State, Florida State, Pittsburgh, Maryland, Miami, USC, Arizona State, and Indiana.
Henderson returned to Princeton as the program’s head coach on April 20, 2011, following 11 seasons as an assistant coach at Northwestern under his former coach at Princeton, Bill Carmody.

As a player at Princeton Henderson has had many moments of success during his collegiate career and has earned many honors and awards.

Marshall Cho

Marshall Cho has worked the Nike Hoop Summit several times since 2012 and for the past ten years, he has been involved with the USA Basketball Youth and Sport programs, first as a volunteer and then as a staff member by being a court coach. He also worked the men’s junior national team U16/U17 trials and the 2022 Men’s Junior National Team April minicamp.

Cho also served as the director of basketball operations at the University of Portland from 2012 to 2014 and during his three years, he sent four players to the NBA (Victor Oladipo, Jerian Grant, Quinn Cook, Jerami Grant).

In addition, Cho is a part of the board at the Oregon Athletic Coaches Association and the Oregon Basketball Coaches Association. Cho has also served as the camp lead instructions director for the Yao Foundation Camp in China for four out of the past five summers.

While his knowledge and work apply to all ages of players, his “expertise” lies in the development of basketball skills at the youth age.

Dr. Nyree Dardarian

Director of the Center for Nutrition & Performance – Drexel University

Dr. Dardarian is a Professor in the Department of Nutrition Sciences at Drexel University and Director of the Center for Nutrition & Performance (CNP). She is a Board-Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics.

Dr. Dardarian is also Director of Sports Nutrition professional sports teams, Philadelphia Union (Major League Soccer, MLS), winners of the Supporters Shield, 2021, and the Philadelphia Flyers (National Hockey League, NHL).

Dr. Dardanian’s work has been on the front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer twice, most notably for eating at McDonald’s for 30 days. She is a frequent contributor to local and national media including CBS Philly, WHYY, Prevention Magazine, and Women’s Health Magazine in topics ranging from nutrient content, weight management, sports nutrition, and nutrition for specialized populations.

She developed the formulation of Dragon Gels™, an In-sport fuel used exclusively by the teams she supports. Dragon Gels™ is produced, packaged, and distributed through the Metabolic Kitchen, Drexel University.

Her research projects focus on esports, collegiate and professional athlete knowledge and behavior change, resting metabolic rate, and nutrition-centered workplace wellness programs.