Adam Wedlake, Executive Director

Adam was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and has been involved with sport administration at the grass-roots, provincial and national levels for over 15 years. Adam began with Basketball Manitoba in 1992 as a summer student for 3 years and then as its Program Coordinator and Technical Director from 1995 to 1998.   In 1997 he co-founded the Winnipeg Minor Basketball Association and became its Executive Director in 1998 until May 2006. In June 2006, he returned to Basketball Manitoba as its Executive Director.

He is a certified NCCP Level 2 coach and has coached with his father Bill at the University of Winnipeg’s Men’s Basketball program. Adam was also a contributor to Canada Basketball’s ‘20/20 Vision for the Future’, a national plan for where the game of basketball should be moving towards in the next 20 years. 

He has been very involved with basketball as a player and coach and was involved with a number of Games (Pan Am Games in 1999, Western Canada Summer Games in 1990) and is the co-author of Take Charge and Win Using Your Essential Skills (2005). Adam also currently coaches in the WMBA.

He currently resides in Winnipeg, is married and has two children.

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Heather Booy, Program Coordinator

Heather grew up in Winkler, Manitoba where she attended high school at Garden Valley Collegiate, graduating in 2003. She continued her education at Providence College, graduating in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in Recreation Leadership. In September 2007 she began her work at Basketball Manitoba.

Basketball has always been a large part of her life, in which she continued her career after high school competing at the college level for four years.  In her final year, she was named American All-Region at Nationals in Oklahoma and team MVP. She also was a part of the women’s volleyball team her first year and the women’s soccer for three years during her time at Providence.

She has coached at the college level and also coaches in the Todd MacCulloch Hoop School Program.  

She currently resides in Winnipeg. 

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Dan Becker, High Performance Coach / Technical Director

Dan Becker is no stranger to the Manitoba basketball scene. He has been an active player and coach for over 25 years at all levels of the game. His playing history began as a standout player at Fort Richmond Collegiate which took him on to play NCAA Division 1 basketball at the University of Colorado. After graduating with a Bachelor's of Science in Marketing Degree, Dan continued his playing opportunities oversees. His professional career took him all over the world playing in Portugal, Germany, Luxembourg, Israel, Spain, Finland, Mexico and Australia. Dan also suited up in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) in Omaha, the USBL (Long Island), played in the L.A. Summer Pro League and attended an NBA Training Camp with the Indiana Pacers. Dan's playing career also saw him represent Team Canada in the late 80's early 90's on various Student and Training National Teams.

As a coach, Dan has worked with players at all spectrums of the game. Dan completed his NCCP Level 4 education at the National Coaching Institute in Winnipeg. He has assisted at the CIS men's level in 2000 to 2004 and took the interim head coaching duties in 2004-05 with the University of Manitoba Men's Program. Over this same time period, Dan coached a number of Basketball Manitoba's Provincial Teams at the Midget (15U) and Juvenile (17U) levels, culminating with the Canada Games team in 2005. In 2004, Dan was an active coach in the Canada Basketball Centre for Performance Program and an instructor at the Nike All-Canada Camp. Dan has also served as the Basketball Technical Advisor for two feature films; ESPN's 'A Season on the Brink' in 2001 and 'Full of It' in 2005.

Recently, Dan has been working with the Oak Park Raiders Varsity Boy's Program with Randy Kusano and is also coaching his daughter's basketball team in the WMBA.

Dan currently resides in Winnipeg, is married and has 3 children.

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