Basketball Manitoba is excited to announce that Kirby Schepp has been hired as its new 'Provincial High Performance Coach' for the 2007-08 year! This is a newly created position for Basketball Manitoba that will bring Kirby on in an official capacity in managing the Association's coaching and high performance strategies, including the Provincial Team and Centre for Performance programs over the next year. This includes acting in a consulting and technical support role for the coaches in these programs. The position itself is a one-year trial and may grow to become a regular fixture for Basketball Manitoba. On top of this, Kirby will also be undertaking a number of other projects looking at the
big picture of basketball development in the province, including…
Kirby Schepp
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- The development of comprehensive practice plans for coaches
for teams ages 6-18 to be mass distributed for free by web technologies
- The development of basketball skills videos to be mass distributed for free by web technologies
- The
development of an off-season basketball conditioning program to tie
into a new web-based athlete training log on the BM website to be mass
distributed for free by web technologies
- The development of
comprehensive grade appropriate phys ed. lesson plans for teachers to
be mass distributed for free by web technologies
Kirby has over 12 years of coaching experience and is…
An active high school basketball coach and phys ed teacher (Silver Heights)
- The head coach of Canada Basketball’s CP Prairie Region Boy's Program
- Basketball Manitoba's most active NCCP Course Conductor (Levels 1-3)
- Very involved in the redevelopment of the NCCP model at the national level
- The past-president of the MBCA
- A former provincial team coach, university assistant coach and university athlete at the University of Winnipeg
Kirby was also just recently named both the AAAA Boys Coach of the Year AND the Coaching Manitoba School System Coach of the Year in 2007.
His term officially begins with Basketball Manitoba on April 30, 2007.
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Basketball Manitoba would like to acknowledge Sport Manitoba in their tremendous support in making this a possibility!
