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Camp Reignites Athlete’s Passion for Basketball
Eleven year-old Anthony Watt is a true and determined young athlete. He has dipped his cleats into several sports over the years. He was a basketball player at a very young age. Then, he hung up his Jordans for football. Today, at age 11 the Tejeda Middle...
Overseas Basketball Camp Ignites Player’s Passion To Play Pro Ball
What started with a few shooting lessons between David Jones and a young boy from Germany at an overseas Shooting For Success basketball camp some nine years ago has developed into a life-long mentorship and relationship built around basketball training. The...
DJ, Mailee Arrive in Hanoi for 2022 SEA Games
For the first time in history, an American father-daughter basketball duo hailing from San Antonio, Texas will compete in the SouthEast Asian games, being held this week in Hanoi. The coach and his daughter, one of 12 on the Vietnamese Women’s National Team, will...
David ‘DJ’ Jones Named Vietnamese Women’s National Team Coach, Begins Training
Following a one-year delay due to the Covid Pandemic, David 'DJ' Jones, former professional player and Founder of Shooting For Success Basketball in San Antonio, Texas has officially assumed the role of Head Coach of the Vietnamese Women's National Team after...
Brazilian Teen Comes to Shooting For Success for American-Style Basketball Training; Practices with Club Team
What do you do when faced with online school in the middle of an ongoing pandemic? You travel overseas to train in the sport you love, of course. For a Brazilian teen that sport is basketball and the much-sought-after coach and trainer is Shooting For Success' own...
SFS Players Learn College Recruitment Tips From Basketball Coach James Ingram
Northeast Lakeview College Men's Basketball Coach James Ingram talks to SFS players and their families “It’s not just playing ball when you’re at a D1 school,” James Ingram, the Head Men's Basketball Coach told a group of eager-to-advance SFS club players before a...
David Jones To Coach Daughter, Vietnamese Women’s National Team In 2021
David ‘DJ’ Jones, Founder of Shooting For Success, is Vietnam-bound where he is expected to sign on as Coach for the Vietnamese Women’s National Basketball Team, later this month. Jones, however, won’t be alone. The former professional basketball player...
WOMEN’S NATIONAL TEAM PLAYER & FORMER REAGAN H.S. GRAD FORCED HOME BY PANDEMIC HELPS OUT AT SFS BASKETBALL CAMP
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...
“We’re Asking You To Hang In There With Us A Little Longer” COVID Reopening Update
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...
Shooting For Success Adds Basketball Virtual Training Option Amid COVID-19 Restrictions
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...
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At Advanced Basketball Clinic David Jones Teaches Mental Toughness, Character, How To Make the Cut
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 make the cut....
Despite Late Start to Basketball Former SFS Player Nabs College Scholarship
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 she...
Stone Oak Basketball Pro, David Jones, Teams Up with Orthodontist To Fight Vaping
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. ...
Welcome To Competitive Club Basketball
At Shooting For Success, Coach and Founder, David Jones, has an underlying philosophy which guides his club teams : He doesn't cut. He develops.