USA Coaches Announced for 2012 Nike Hoop Summit

USA Coaches Announced for

2012

Nike Hoop Summit

MIKE JONES

DEMATHA

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 2, 2012) – Montverde Academy (Fla.) head coach Kevin Boyle will led the USA Junior National Select Team against the World Team in the 2012 Nike Hoop Summit, with DeMatha Catholic (Md.) head mentor Mike Jones serving as an assistant coach on the U.S. sideline.
The Nike Hoop Summit, the country’s premier annual basketball game for high-school age boys, features America’s top high school seniors playing against a World Select Team comprised of top international players 19-years-old or younger.
Nationally televised by Fox Sports Net and its regional affiliates, the 2012 Nike Hoop Summit will take place at 7 p.m. (PDT) on Saturday, April 7, 2012, at the Rose Garden in Portland, Ore.
The 2012 USA Basketball Junior National Select Team roster will be selected by the USA Basketball Men’s Developmental National Team Committee and is expected to be announced in the next few weeks. The 2012 World Select Team is expected to be announced in March. The USA Junior National Select Team will feature 10 players, while the World Select Team is expected to consist of 11 players age 19-years-old or younger from FIBA’s five geographic zones: FIBA Africa, FIBA Americas, FIBA Asia, FIBA Europe and FIBA Oceania, with the approved sanctioning of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), the world governing body of international basketball.
In addition to Ford, the USA Basketball Men’s Developmental National Team Committee includes: AAU appointees Ron Crawford and Boo Williams; National Federation of High Schools representatives Eric Flannery and John Olive; and athlete representative Kermit Holmes (1999 USA Pan American Games Team).

Mike Jones
A member of three previous USA Basketball coaching staffs, Jones most recently helped the USA to a gold medal as an assistant coach for the 2011 USA Men’s U16 National Team, which wrapped up a 5-0 record at the 2011 FIBA Americas U16 Championship in Cancun, Mexico.
In addition to acting as an assistant coach during the 2011-12 USA Basketball Men’s Development National Team’s two training camps (Oct. 9-10, 2010 and Oct. 15-16, 2011), Jones was an assistant coach for the 2004 USA Basketball Men’s Youth Development Festival East Team that finished 2-3 and collected a bronze medal.
“Coaching in the Nike Hoop Summit has been a goal for me,” Jones said. “In terms of amateur basketball, it’s close to being at the pinnacle of what I can achieve as a coach. Any time you get an opportunity to represent your country in any competition, you have to be excited about it, and I am.”
Jones currently is in his 10th season at the helm the DeMatha boys basketbal team, where he himself was a basketball player and high school student. He was hired as the interim coach in 2002-03 and given the head coach position in the following season (2003-04).
At the start of the 2011-12 season, Jones had compiled a 241-62 (.795 winning percentage) overall record as the head coach at DeMatha. Thus far in 2011-12, he has led his team to a 17-3 record this season (as of Jan. 31, 2012).