Follow Through Basketball Academy
About
Playing -
In high school Derek played for the all-time most winning coach in Arizona history Coach Gary Ernst...Derek won a State Championship at Mesa Moutain View in 2000.... Was named the East Valley Region Player-of-the-Year in 2000...Named first team All East Valley.....Second Team All-State.
In College Derek Played for NAU, Columbia College, and finished out at NNU. At Columbia College he led the team to its first ever Elite 8 appearance and led the region in three-point percentage at 47.2%. At NNU Derek was second in the country in assists per game at 8.2 assists and led the GNAC conference in assist to turnover ratio. He then moved on and signed a contract with Tekelspore in the top division of the TBL league in Istanbul, Turkey.
Coaching -
Derek has coached at all levels...High School, College and Pro...Prior to getting into Real Estate in 2018, he started and ran a high School prep program at Bella Vista College prep known as Aspire Academy. The program competed on the national circuit known as the Grind Session in its first year and had over 150 Division 1 college coaches visit the program to recruit players.
Reason for launching Follow Through Academy -
This program was born out of frustration with experiencing a direction of player development that has players playing a multitude of games and not enough skill development/block training in my opinion. It is my goal to implement a more international style model that enhances all aspects of the game and focuses more on the reads and developing mechanics rather than how many games we play in. I look forward to going in a direction that is proven based on the state of the game today at the highest levels.