Coaches
Coach Anwar Gladden
Anwar has been a New York City Department of Education teacher and leader in New York City basketball for over twenty years. For the past eighteen seasons, Coach Gladden has been the Varsity Head Coach for the South Shore High School Girls’ Basketball team, winning the 2017 NYS Federation Championship, and five NYC PSAL Championships. Contemporaneously, Coach Gladden has coached and been associated with premier level girls’ travel programs. During such tenure, he has developed seventeen D1 student athletes. More importantly, he has helped countless players achieve their goal of attending college.
Coach Jenice Winter
Coach Winter played scholastically for South Shore High School and collegiately for the College of Charleston. Following graduation, Coach Winter has served for three years as an Assistant Girls’ Varsity Basketball Coach at South Shore, also winning one Junior Varsity NYC PSAL Championship, and has coached on the travel basketball circuit.
Coach Rock Rosa
Rock Rosa brought his basketball experience and administrative skills two years ago. He has been a pillar in the Harlem community for 30+ years, coaching many young men and women who have gone on to play collegiately and professionally. Coach Rock also served as the head coach at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School for five years. During that time, he was named NYSPHS & Ivy League Coach of the Year, leading the girls program to their 1st Ivy League title.
Coach Michelle Pacheco
Coach Pacheco played scholastic hoops at John F. Kennedy HS and collegiately at Manhattan College, earning First Team All-MAAC and, more importantly, a Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology. After her college years, Michelle played with the Puerto Rico National Team and earned a Gold Medal at the 2011 Pan-American Games. Shortly after, Coach Pacheco hang up her professional shoes to become an educator and is currently working for the Board of Education as a Middle School and High School teacher and coaches the middle school boys and girls program and is the Head Coach of the Girls Varsity Program at Thurgood Marshall Academy High School. Coach Pacheco has been coaching and training throughout NYC for over 10 years now. She has also started her own training company called Major Impact Hoops where she provides both individual and group basketball training to athletes all ages.
Schedule
| September 1-November 3, 2024 | Rose Classic | New York, NY |
| October 26-27, 2024 | NYG Hoops Halloween Fest | Bronx, NY |
| November 16-17, 2024 | Select Events Winter Series I | Manheim, PA |
| December 7-8, 2024 | Select Events Winter Series II | Manheim, PA |
| December 21-22, 2024 | Made Hoops Winter Circuit I | Manheim, PA |
| January 4-5, 2025 | Select Events Winter Series III | Manheim, PA |
| January 18-19, 2025 | Made Hoops Winter Circuit II | Manalapan, NJ |
| January 25-26, 2025 | Select Events Winter Series IV | Philadelphia, PA |
| February 1-2, 2025 | Made Hoops Winter Circuit III | Manheim, PA |
| February 22-23, 2025 | Made Hoops Winter Chips | Manalapan, NJ |
| March 1-2, 2024 | Select Events Winter Chips | Manheim, PA |
| March 15-16, 2025 | NYG Hoops Madness | Bronx, NY |
| April 12-13, 2025 | Select Tune-Up | Philadelphia, PA |
| April 19-20, 2025 | PUMA NXT Circuit | Valley Forge, PA |
| May 3-4, 2025 | Select Main Event | Atlantic City, NJ |
| May 17-18, 2025 | Select Showcase | Atlantic City, NJ |
| May 24-25, 2025 | PUMA NXT Circuit | Cincinnati, OH |
| June 7-8, 2025 | Select Prime Event | Manheim, PA |
| June 21-22, 2025 | Gym Rat Live | Albany, NY |
| July 4-6, 2025 | PUMA NXT Circuit | Manheim, PA |
| July 11-14, 2025 | Nike TOC | Las Vegas, NV |
| July 24-27, 2025 | PUMA NXT Chips | Orlando, FL |