Fullcourt  Press "Fundamentals First" Skills Academy

Monday and Wednesday Nights

7:00pm - 9:00pm

Long Beach City College
4901 East Carson Street, Long Beach CA  90808

Academy Director: Dinos Trigonis Fullcourt  Press & Pangos)

Lead Skills Instructor:  Schea Cotton
(Former Mater Dei HS and Alabama star)


Cost:  $100.00
per week (4 hours of instruction per week)*
*plus an initial $75.00 registration fee

This academy is designed to teach players (grades 6th – 12th) the fundamentals needed to master the game of basketball.   Particular emphasis will be on developing individual offensive scoring skills.

Players Dinos Trigonis has coached (since 1995) include Baron Davis (UCLA/Los Angeles Clippers), Trevor Ariza (UCLA/Los Angeles Lakers), Brandon Jennings (2008 McDonald's All-American/projected 2009 NBA lottery pick), DeMar DeRozan (USC/projected 2009 NBA lottery pick), Casey Jacobsen (Stanford/Memphis Grizzlies), Tito Maddox (Fresno State/Houston Rockets), Kirk Snyder (Nevada/Minnesota Timberwolves),
Jeff Trepagnier (USC/Denver Nuggets), Dijon Thompson (UCLA/Phoenix Suns), Marcus Williams (UConn/Golden State Warriors), Hassan Adams (Arizona/New Jersey Nets), Julius Barnes (Stanford), Travon Bryant (2000 McDonald's All-American/Missouri), DeMarcus Nelson (Duke/Chicago Bulls), Jamal Boykin (Duke/Cal), Kyle Fogg (Arizona), Jrue Holiday (UCLA), Ellis Myles (Louisville/2005 NCAA Final 4 Player of the Game), Darius Morris (Michigan signee), Ashanti Cook (Georgetown), A.J. Diggs (Cal), Errick &  Derrick Craven (USC), Wesley Stokes (Missouri/San Diego State), Jordan Wilkes (Cal), Wesley  Washington (Oregon State), Matt Thomas (San Diego State), Seketoure Henry (Nebraska), Ed White (Yale), Patrick Haddan (Penn), Joe Shipp (Cal), Carlon Brown (Utah), Julyan Stone (UTEP), Dezon Otis (Texas-San Antonio), Renaldo Woolridge (Tennessee), Leonard Washington (USC), Jeff Withey (Kansas), Justin Holiday (Washington), Hollis Thompson (Georgetown), Gerard Anderson (Cal State Fullerton), Malcolm Campbell (Hartford) and Tyreese Breshers (Washington).  Trigonis is also the editor-in-chief of the Fullcourt Press website (www.fullctpress.net) and Nothing But Net Magazine (www.nbnmagazine.com) and provides 150-plus college subscribers (including North Carolina, Duke, UConn, Kansas, Louisville, Georgetown, Texas and every Pac-10 school)  with his Fullcourt Press private reports.

Schea Cotton was a star at Mater Dei (Santa Ana CA) and St. John Bosco (Bellflower) high schools in the mid-1990s where he attained the status as the #1 player in the nation as an 8th grader, 9th grader and 10th grader and would end his HS career as a Top 5 national prospect.  Schea was invited to three straight Nike All-American Camps and received over 200 scholarship offers.  Cotton would later go on to be a starter at Alabama (earning All-SEC honors) and play professionally in Greece, Italy, France, Serbia, Venezuela, Dominican Republic and Mexico).

Academy Will Initially Be Limited to Only 40 Players and 1st session will be Monday May 18th.

TO REGISTER, QUESTIONS or NEED  MORE INFORMATION
Call Schea Cotton at (562)  508-8704 or e-mail him: cottonvalie@aol.com

www.fullctpress.net