Jamie Angeli is entering his second season as an assistant women's
basketball coach. He joined head coach Joan Bonvicini's staff on August 31, 2009. In his first season he
helped the Redhawks progress in their transition back to full NCAA Division I status. He assists in all
aspects of the program, focusing on working with the post players.
Last season, Angeli helped develop Tatiana Heck into the second-best
scorer on the team, where she earned All-Independent Second Team honors. For her efforts, she was awarded
the team's Most Improved Player award, as well as team MVP. Angeli also runs the Seattle U women's
basketball camp, Future Redhawks program, and assists with scouting and recruiting.
In addition, Angeli was an advance scout for the WNBA Eastern
Conference Champion Washington Mystics last season.
Angeli boasts over 25 successful years in the basketball profession
as a player, coach, administrator and author. As a professional coach overseas, he owns a 112-25 overall
record, including three consecutive league championships. He led his team to back-to-back Heir Apparent
Cup Championships and Emir Cup Championships, and in 2005, the Asian Cup Championships. Stateside he has
worked for 10 years as an assistant men's coach in the Division I ranks under several decorated head
coaches, including UCLA's Steve Lavin, South Florida's Stan Heath, George Mason's Jim Larranga and
Bradley's Stan Albeck, who have combined for over 1,000 career victories.
He joins the Redhawk women's basketball program after spending the
2008-09 season as a professional head basketball coach of Al Arabi Sporting Club in the country of
Kuwait. Prior to coaching overseas, he was an assistant coach and video coordinator with the University
of South Florida.
In August of 2004, Angeli accepted the position as head professional
men's basketball coach of the Al Rayyan Basketball Club in the country of Qatar.
In his first season as head coach with Al Rayyan, Angeli compiled a
37 - 2 record, a league and three tournament championships. Angeli and Al Rayyan achieved a first in club
history by sweeping the league championship and all tournaments in the country of Qatar in one season. On
June 6th, 2005, Angeli and Al Rayyan concluded their outstanding season by winning the coveted Asian Cup
Club Championship in Manila, one of the biggest tournaments in all of Asia.
Prior to his new position in Qatar, Angeli most recently worked for
six seasons as the Director of Men's Basketball Operations and assistant to head coach Steve Lavin at
UCLA. Along with directing the day-to-day operations of the UCLA basketball program, Angeli served as
Lavin's administrative assistant. Among his numerous responsibilities were assisting the coaching staff
in the coordination of all recruiting efforts, video editing and production, computer technology and
design, database management and correspondence, alumni and booster relations, travel administrator and
game bench duties as assigned by the head coach.
Angeli joined the Bruins after serving seven years as a Div. I and
Div. II collegiate assistant, in addition to four years as a high school head boy's basketball coach.
Prior to joining UCLA, Angeli was the head coach at Norway High School in Norway, MI. In just three
seasons, Angeli became one of the most successful coaches in the school's history. During his final
campaign as head coach, his team won the school's first district championship in almost twenty
years.
A former Michigan All-State high school basketball player, Angeli
continued his playing career at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. He graduated from Wisconsin-Stout in
1985. Angeli began his coaching career during the 1986-87 season as the head boys' basketball coach at
Kingsford, MI High School. Since that time, Angeli has made collegiate assistant coaching stops at
Michigan Tech University in Houghton (1987-88), Bradley University in Peoria, IL (1988-89), Bowling Green
State University in Bowling Green, OH (1989-91) and Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie,
MI (1991-94).
Angeli has had several articles published on basketball. Most
recently, his "Scouting America's Top Basketball Programs" (Vol. 1, 2 & 3) are national best-sellers.
His "Pass Option Offensive Attack System" and "Build a Better Player - Summer Camp Workout" reached
bestsellers status in both paperback and video in 2002. In 1989 his "Zone Offensive Attack" was published
in the NABC Journal and Scholastic Coach Magazine. In the Fall of 2003, he also produced "Storybook
Champions", in interactive CD-ROM that allows you to create an inspirational and motivational story with
you as the main character. In 2004-2005, Angeli released three new books and videos; "Backdoor Buckets",
"Game Time!" and the "Double and Triple Post Zone Motion Offense" and remain popular items among coaches
of all levels. Always searching to develop new technical ideas, Angeli created the "Fusion Offense" and
the "Pass Option Two Offense" in 2006, which he credits in part along with the previously mentioned
Double and Triple Post Zone Motion Offense, for his professional head coaching success. In 2007, Angeli
takes us inside his Al Rayyan practices by creating "The Shooting Machine" DVD and Book, a competitive
and repetitive drill set that teaches post and perimeter game shots, cuts, communication and
conditioning.
During the summer months, he has directed "Jamie Angeli's Basketball
Camp of Champs" for boys and girls throughout the states of Michigan and Wisconsin. In 2003, Angeli
concluded his twentieth and final summer as founder and director of the popular camp that has instructed
and developed more than 17,000 campers during that span.
The 49-year-old native of Iron River, MI, is the father of twin boys,
Riley & Steven, age 17. Angeli was married to Christy Tomlinson from Saugautuck, Michigan on July 5,
2002. Together they have a six-year old son Jacob, a seven-year old daughter Jordan, and a stepson Josh,
age 19.