Coach Billy Mims leads the Florida Tech Panthers, the basketball team of the Florida Institute of Technology, which competes in NCAA Division II.
Read a brief biography of coach Mims HERE.
Visit Florida Tech’s athletics website HERE.
Coach Mims has 39 years of experience as an NCAA head coach and a total coaching career of 44 years, with more than 600 wins.
He is an established television NBA commentator and the producer of the NBA radio commentary programme The Billy Mims Show. Above all, he is an internationally active coach, with hundreds of talks on youth basketball development and basketball camps around the world.
Last year, three of our teenage players had the opportunity to train with him at his camp in Heraklion, Crete, during the European Youth Championship. Building on that collaboration, we are delighted to announce that this year we can host coach Mims in Elefsina on 17 July. Through the kind mediation of our sports psychologist, Nikos Georgiadis, we have invited him to give a talk entitled “Basketball as a life ticket”.
As a Division II college coach, he knows this subject better than anyone!
At Division II colleges, athletic performance and basketball ability matter, but players’ academic achievement is equally important—perhaps even more so.
In Division I, we speak about basketball and players pursuing professional careers. In Division II, we speak about leading American academic programmes: universities that support sport while placing their main emphasis on education. If you do not study, you do not play.
The talk is for parents of young athletes, teenage and young basketball players, coaches, anyone interested in the student-athlete experience in America, anyone planning a future combining basketball and study, and anyone who wants a different perspective on why we play basketball. It connects our first steps in the game with our academic and professional future. This view of youth basketball development will encourage us to think, compare, set new goals and be inspired.
The talk will take place on 17 July at 19:30, in Warehouse No. 3 at the Old Oil Mill, with a maximum of 80 participants.
The talk will be in English, with simultaneous translation into Greek by Mr Georgiadis. It will last approximately one hour and 15 minutes, followed by 45 minutes of audience questions.
Please register your interest by calling 210-5540440 or emailing info@okebc.gr.
Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
OKE calls Florida, and Florida responds!
We hope you enjoy it!
The event is supported by 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture.
Media partner: Voices of Elefsina.
