.:About the President and CEO:

After spending the past three years as a professional head coach in the country of Qatar, Jamie Angeli and his family have returned to the United States and Angeli has rejoined the college ranks as the University of South Florida’s Assistant Coach / Video Coordinator.

Angeli has over 25 successful years in the basketball profession as a student-athlete, coach, administrator, author and Internet entrepreneur. He has coached and taught at the high school, Division I, II and III collegiate levels and the professional ranks.

In August of 2004, Angeli accepted the position as head professional men's basketball coach of the Al Rayyan Basketball Club in the country of Qatar.

In his first season as head coach with Al Rayyan, Angeli compiled a 37 - 2 record, a league and three tournament championships. Angeli and Al Rayyan achieved a first in club history by sweeping the league championship and all tournaments in the country of Qatar in one season. On June 6th, 2005, Angeli and Al Rayyan concluded their outstanding season by winning the coveted Asian Cup Club Championship in Manila, one of the biggest tournaments in all of Asia.

During the 2005-2006 season it was more of the same for Angeli and Al Rayyan, making history again by winning back-to-back league championships and all local tournament championships. He finished third in the Asian Championship tournament, just missing out on reaching the finals by losing a hard-fought game to eventual champion Fastlink of Jordan. He finished the 2005 - 2006 season with a 41 - 5 record.

In now his third season with Al Rayyan in Qatar, Angeli just recorded his third consecutive league championship early on in 2007. His current overall professional head coaching record is an impressive 97 - 13.

You can view his photo essay below from his first season of Life and Basketball in the Middle East:

 

Prior to his new position in Qatar, Angeli most recently worked for six seasons as the Director of Men's Basketball Operations and assistant to head coach Steve Lavin at UCLA. Along with directing the day-to-day operations of the UCLA basketball program, Angeli served as Steve Lavin's administrative assistant. Among his numerous responsibilities were assisting the coaching staff in the coordination of all recruiting efforts, video editing and production, computer technology and design, database management and correspondence, alumni and booster relations, travel administrator and game bench duties as assigned by the head coach.

Angeli joined the Bruins after serving seven years as a Div. I and Div. II collegiate assistant, in addition to four years as a high school head boy's basketball coach. Prior to joining UCLA, Angeli was the head coach at Norway High School in Norway, MI. In just three seasons, Angeli became one of the most successful coaches in the school's history. During his final campaign as head coach, his team won the school's first district championship in almost twenty years.

A former Michigan All-State high school basketball player, Angeli continued his playing career at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. He graduated from Wisconsin-Stout in 1985. Angeli began his coaching career during the 1986-87 season as the head boys' basketball coach at Kingsford, MI High School. Since that time, Angeli has made collegiate assistant coaching stops at Michigan Tech University in Houghton (1987-88), Bradley University in Peoria, IL (1988-89), Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH (1989-91) and Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, MI (1991-94).

Angeli has had several articles published on basketball. Most recently, his "Scouting America's Top Basketball Programs" (Vol. 1, 2 & 3) are national best-sellers. His "Pass Option Offensive Attack System" and "Build a Better Player - Summer Camp Workout" reached bestsellers status in both paperback and video in 2002. In 1989 his "Zone Offensive Attack" was published in the NABC Journal and Scholastic Coach Magazine. In the Fall of 2003, he also produced "Storybook Champions", in interactive CD-ROM that allows you to create an inspirational and motivational story with you as the main character. In 2004-2005, Angeli released three new books and videos; "Backdoor Buckets", "Game Time!" and the "Double and Triple Post Zone Motion Offense" and remain popular items among coaches of all levels. Always searching to develop new technical ideas, Angeli created the "Fusion Offense" and the "Pass Option Two Offense" in 2006, which he credits in part along with the previously mentioned Double and Triple Post Zone Motion Offense, for his professional head coaching success. In 2007, Angeli takes us inside his Al Rayyan practices by creating "The Shooting Machine" DVD and Book, a competitive and repetitive drill set that teaches post and perimeter game shots, cuts, communication and conditioning.

During the summer months, he has directed "Jamie Angeli's Basketball Camp of Champs" for boys and girls throughout the states of Michigan and Wisconsin. In 2003, Angeli concluded his twentieth and final summer as founder and director of the popular camp that has instructed and developed more than 17,000 campers during that span.

The 45-year-old native of Iron River, MI, is the father of twin boys, Riley & Steven, age 12. Angeli was married to Christy Tomlinson from Saugautuck, Michigan on July 5, 2002. Together they have a two-year old son Jacob, a four-year old daughter Jordan, and a stepson Josh, age 16. They currently reside in Doha, Qatar.