Hooptech
Meet The Team
DIRECTORS & TRAINERS
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Antonio Maestranzi
Director of HoopTech
Coach Antonio played Division 1 college basketball for four years at Northern Illinois University. As a senior captain, he led NIU to its first ever MAC west championship, finishing his collegiate career 5th all time in total assists and 4th all time in 3-pointers made. After college he then played six years Professionally overseas in the Italian League. He was also selected to play on the Italian National Team in 2010 where he started at point guard playing alongside NBA players as they competed in the European Championships.
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Jack Stevens
Player Development Specialist
Jack Stevens is the #1 player development specialist in Ohio and is building a national training brand for college/pro basketball players all around the country. He has worked with players from 19 different Division 1 Conferences including: Big 12, SEC, Big 10, ACC, and Big East. He has experience working with numerous Professional players from the NBA, G League and top overseas leagues in Europe, Asia, Australia & South America. Jack is also currently in his 4th season as the assistant men’s basketball coach at the College of Wooster, a Division 3 national powerhouse
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Brandon Rodriguez
Player Development Specialist
Brandon has coached at multiple levels on the AAU basketball circuit over the past six years and was the former head freshman basketball coach at Elyria Catholic for two years. Currently, he is the head boy’s freshman coach and the assistant JV/Varsity coach at Lutheran West High School. Brandon has a passion to help develop young men aspiring to be elite high school players and go on to play in college. He is one of the top up and coming young basketball coaches in this area.
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Keonta Howell
Shoot 360 Cleveland Director
Coach Howell played collegiately at the University of Toledo and was the MAC Conference leading scorer his senior year. Twice in his career he received All-MAC Team Honors, and in 2007 he led Toledo to the MAC Conference Championship / NCAA tournament berth. Keonta played Professionally overseas in Germany, England and France over the span of a 7-year career, which included a 2011 Pro B League Championship. After retiring from the Professional ranks he was the assistant men’s basketball coach at Baldwin Wallace University for 3 years, and now is bringing his expertise to HoopTech/Shoot 360
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Toby Hunt
Player Development Specialist
Coach Hunt is the Freshman coach at Elyria High School and has been training some of the top local players for over a decade now.
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Drew Foit
Player Development Specialist
Coach Drew has coached high school basketball and football for 5 years and is a 2nd grade gym teacher in the North Ridgeville School district.
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Andre Smith
Program Director & Player Development Specialist
Smith comes to us from the University of Northwest Ohio. A school where he was the Head Women’s Basketball Coach for the 2021-2022 season. Prior to arriving at UNOH, Smith was in the professional basketball ranks as a scout and involved with player development for various organizations. His most recent position was Director of Scouting for Hoop Dreams of Africa in Zambia, Africa. Before that Smith was the Athletic Director and Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Penn State Shenango were he was in charge of starting an athletic program from scratch, just as he did at Lourdes University from 2009-2015.
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Matt Karn
Adult Program Director / Player Development Specialist
Received 2nd team All-American honors and was top 50 in the country in scoring during his time at Shawnee Community College. He then went on to play at the University of Nebraska. After graduation, he played for the winningest program in semi-professional basketball history. Furthermore, he became an assistant coach in the semi-professional ranks for two years and the head assistant coach for Brescia University. Matthew has over 10 years experience as a player development trainer.
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Ryan Elbert
Player Development Specialist
Bio to come