This will be his first experience at the Maccabi Games, but Dave is no stranger to the International game after coaching for Canada Basketball for ten years, highlighted by qualifying as the first Canadian age group team (Men or Women) for a World Championship in 2004 and then defeating the USA before capturing Canada's second ever medal at a FIBA event (the last previous was the 1936 Olympics) at the 2005 Young Men's World Championships.
These days Crook teaches in the Kinesiology faculty at the U of W, is the marketing coordinator of Wesmen athletics and volunteers as the grade 8 developmental coach at Balmoral Hall School.