Our Staff

 DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

Jey-son Edwards is a NCCP Certified Level 2 and Basketball USA Gold Licensed Coach who has been coaching for 20 years. He is a passionate student and teacher of the game, with a focus on contributing to long-term development of athletes. A graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University (Ontario, Canada) and Fanshawe College, Jey-son has enjoyed many team successes as a shooting guard at the CIS and OUA levels. He’s coached a variety of basketball teams across the country, including the Northern S.S. Senior Girls (Toronto, Canada) and River East C.I. Senior Girls (Winnipeg MB). In addition to high school coaching, Jey-son has been a member of the Toronto Raptors Ambassador Team, coached AAU and Rep Teams for over 15 years, and participated as a coach with PGC College and at Olympia Sports Camp. 

CENTRAL ONTARIO

Dévin Johnson (Savage Training) is a former professional basketball player and 3-time OUA all star. In his 5 seasons at the University of Toronto, Dévin was 1 of 3 players to score over 1200 points in program history, with a total of 1237 points. After graduating from Uoft in 2017, he began his professional career in 2019 for BC Borisfen of the Belarusian Premier League where he averaged an impressive 20.0 ppg, 4.8 rpg and 1.8 apg. Johnson was voted Premier League MVP, Import of the year and selected to the Premier league 1st team.

Johnson also played played 12 games in the Eurasian League, averaging 25.0 ppg, 6.0 rpg and 3.0 apg. He was also voted Eurobasket.com All-Eurasian League Player of the Year, Import of the Year and selected to 1st Team.

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 TORONTO & MANITOBA

Coach Naomi has been coaching since 1993. She began coaching in high school because she wanted to teach as many people as possible to play the sport she loved. She has, and continues, to coach both male and female players from as young as five years old; all the way up to Open Divisions. She has completed the FUNdamentals to Level 2 NCCP through Coaches Canada and is in the process of obtaining higher NCCP level 3 and FIBA coaching certification.

Coach Noami is currently an assistant coach with the University of Manitoba Women's Basketball Team, and is the former Lead Assistant Coach for Seneca College Women’s basketball and is an alumni player of that program. Coach Naomi a 3-time all star and her team went to the OCAA provincials twice, winning bronze once.

Coach Naomi has obtained an advanced diploma in Child And Youth Care (CYC), Life Skills Coach and Restorative Justice Certification from George Brown College.