by Diane Jones | Jul 5, 2020 | Training tips
Perhaps sometimes the restrictions imposed by Covid-19 aren’t all bad. At one Stone Oak area youth basketball camp, young girls are getting to train with a National Basketball Player who can’t return to her overseas team due to the pandemic. Mailee Jones, a graduate...
by Diane Jones | May 6, 2020 | Training tips
We hope that this finds you and your family safe and well. As Texas takes its first steps towards reopening amid COVID-19, we thought it was important to share how this affects us at Shooting For Success. While some businesses have been granted the ability to open in...
by Diane Jones | Apr 18, 2020 | Training tips
As an athlete, we are used to facing challenges. But what we were handed in early March, 2020, when the President of the United States publicly declared actions to stop the spread of a the Novel Coronavirus, a highly-contagious and deadly virus, stopped even the...
by Diane Jones | Oct 28, 2019 | Training tips
Forget shooting a buzzer-beater 3-point shot. According to David Jones, or ‘The Shot Doctor’ as he’s better known in basketball circles around the world, there are other, less physical skills players can demonstrate at basketball tryouts to help them...
by Diane Jones | Sep 3, 2019 | Training tips
Cassie Bell never touched a basketball until the 8th grade. Of course she had passed one around from time to time but she didn’t place her hands on the lines of the basketball gripping its incredible potential until she was heading into high school. Yet, when...
by Diane Jones | Aug 21, 2019 | Training tips
Basketball Pro-Trainer and Youth Coach, David Jones, knows a thing or two about vaping. A player on his competitive basketball team, Shooting For Success, tried it, not long ago, and lost his starting position on the team as a result, per Jones. Likewise,...
by Erin Kirwan | May 29, 2019 | Training tips
Club Basketball is a little like Windex. The cleaning agent. Sounds strange, but allow me to explain. As a young kid, I grew up thinking there was only one product used to clean windows, Windex. After all, that’s how my mom would always refer to the popular blue...
by Erin Kirwan | Sep 25, 2018 | Shot Doctor, success stories, Training tips
Basketball coaches like challenges. Or at least they should, some might argue, since the majority of coaching careers are filled with impending challenges. Developing basketball players with little to no refinement. Sudden player injuries. Losing seasons....
by Erin Kirwan | Aug 13, 2018 | success stories, Training tips
Article by Caitlin Blackmon Former Shooting For Success Point Guard, Mailee Jones, is about to take a giant leap—The 20-year-old will leave college for professional basketball in China this fall. Jones will be the youngest American ever to declare, relinquishing her...
by Erin Kirwan | Dec 21, 2017 | Shot Doctor Nutrition
Blog Written by Erin Kirwan for Shooting For Success Sometimes we discover ourselves at the most unexpected times. Or sometimes, someone else discovers something about us that changes our life. For 13-year-old Pat Thepuatrakul, this unique awakening happened on a hot...
