DRIVE Basketball :: DRIVE Staff : Chad Clifford

HEAD COACH: CHAD CLIFFORD

Chad Clifford is the Founder of the DRIVE Basketball Academy

(www.drivebasketball.com) and co-owner of DRIVE Fitness (www.drivefitness.ca).

Chadhas many years of experience as an athlete and coach in basketball and overall physical fitness and athletics.

Chad graduated from the University of British Columbia (UBC) completing his degree in Human Kinetics. Chad was a member of the Varsity basketball team at UBC (2005/06) that had completed a perfect 20-0 regular season in Canada West play and earned the Pacific Division title. Prior to UBC, Chad spent the 2003-2004 season playing for Simon Fraser University. At SFU, Chad was the team’s second leading scorer (16.5ppg) and finished among the top 10 in Canada-West scoring, three point shooting, and free-throw percentage. Prior to SFU, Chad was a two-year letterman at St. Francis University in Pennsylvania, where he led the team in three point shooting. Chad also spent a season in Ohio where he was named to the All-State high school team. Before playing in Ohio Chad was a member of Grass Roots Canada where he was coached by Ro Russell. In high school, Chad won the 1999 AAA MVP while leading the White Rock Christian Warriors to the AAA Provincial title.

His passion is running DRIVE Basketball Camps. He began in the Fall of 2004 and has experience running camps at Saint Francis University and Simon Fraser University. He was also the Co-head coach at UBC's elite summer camp in 2004. Before joining forces with Pasha to create DRIVE, Chad ran Phenom Basketball Camps established in 2001 with former high school teammate Kyle Wilson (2001 AAA MVP).

Chad has coached the DRIVE U13 and U14 selects the past two club seasons and has worked with many young athletes over his 10 years of coaching experience that have moved on to play college or university basketball.

Chad was born and raised in White Rock, B.C. and attended Peace Arch Elementary.

What they are saying about Coach Clifford:

"He has helped me from head to toe. From the player I was 2 years ago to now, it was all because of him. I cannot say enough about this guy. He would do anything for anybody, because he has so much love for the game."

Greg Eliott, Grade 12, Earl Marriott

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