Chad Clifford - Co-Founder, Director & Head Coach
Jordan Mason - Associate Head Coach - Boys
Lucian Sauciuc - Assistant Coach
Winston Brown - Head Coach - Girls
Karn Sharda - Resident Coach (1)
Luke Wera - Resident Coach (5)
Rupinder Dahia - Resident Coach (5)
Reet Sidhu - Resident Coach (4)
Anthony Sohal - Resident Coach (5)
Brandon Chan - Resident Coach (5)
Emerson Murray - Resident Coach (5)
Doug Plumb - Resident Coach (5)
Sean Burke - Resident Coach (5)
(Years with DRIVE)
As Students
Each Drive Staff member is either currently finishing a University Undergraduate program or has already completed a University degree while playing Varsity basketball. The Staff includes High School and University Teachers/Instructors as well as Coaches working on Post-Graduate degrees in Coaching Science.
As Players
The Drive Staff is comprised of a number of former or current University Student-Athletes. The staff has competed at a variety of levels within British Columbia and abroad. The Staff includes NCAA Division I players and Canadian National team members with playing experience including AAA Provincial and CIS National Championships.
After two seasons at Clemson, Pasha won the 2004 Canadian University Player of the year at Simon Fraser University. At Simon Fraser, Pasha was a two-time Canadian leading scorer (22.9 ppg, 2003), and (25.3 ppg, 2004), and holds the SFU record for career scoring average (24.1 ppg). In 2004, Pasha also finished #6 in Canada West assists (4.6 apg), while moving over to the point guard position. Pasha was a two-time 1st Team All-Canada West selection at SFU and recipient of Sport BC's University Athlete award. Pasha graduated from Simon Fraser with honors majoring in Psychology and English.
Overcoming a serious ankle injury, Pasha went on to pursue a Graduate program and finished his University career at UBC where he helped Captain the Thunderbirds to their first perfect Regular Season (20-0) and the Pacific Divison title. He finished 1st in Canada West Scoring at 22.1 ppg and was named 1st Team All-Canada West. Pasha holds several UBC Single Season Records.
Pasha has been a guest speaker at several schools and community events in the past decade. He was involved in the 2003 Youth Forum against Violence at the East Richmond Community Center and has spoke at several Terry Fox run's including Walter Lee Elementary in Richmond. He was recently involved in the Heath Elementary Reading program day and worked closely with Hoops 4 Hope an organization that sends used athletic sneakers and equipment to Africa. Pasha was a keynote speaker at the SATA Teachers event in Surrey in 2008 and spoke at McNeil Athletic Banquet. Recently in August 2008, Pasha was the guest speaker at the annual Sikh Youth Camp held in Vancouver, BC.
Pasha was recently honored in the Richmond Review's Best of Richmond 2008 and 2009 Vote. In 2008, Pasha was named #2 Local Hero behind Rick Hansen, #2 Best Coach behind his high-school coach Bill Disbrow and his 1998 Richmond High Basketball team was #1 Best Richmond Team of All-Time. In 2009, Pasha was named #1 Richmond's All-Athlete & #1 Best Coach. In addition, in 2009, Pasha was named to the "Top 30 under 30" in the Richmond Review.
Phone: 604.818.SLAM (7526)
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.
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.
Phone: 604.818.SLAM (7526)
College Basketball Career
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Winston Brown was born and raised in BC. While in elementary school at University Hill, Winston was introduced to soccer and basketball, quickly becoming addicted to both. In high school at Kitsilano, he continued his love for basketball, but exchanged his interest for European football for the North American version. Following high school Winston pursued many opportunities, which included coaching both basketball and football.
School Background
Winston has earned a Bachelors degree in English (Language) and was honoured as a UBC Gold Key student for finishing in the top 10% of his class. Following in his mother’s footsteps, he went on to receive a Bachelors degree in Education and was awarded the prestigious Dr. Maxwell Cameron Memorial Medal for excellence in secondary education. In the future, Winston’s interest in coaching will probably lead him to complete a Master’s degree in coaching. As he continues to grow and develop as a coach and teacher, his goal is to avoid complacency by actively pursuing innovative and dynamic ways to engage young athletes and students.
Coaching Accomplishments
Winston started coaching at the Junior level in Vancouver (Prince of Wales Secondary School) in 1995, where they won the City Championships. Since then he has gone on to coach Senior Girls at Lord Byng and Kitsilano Secondary Schools, as well as York House School. In that time his teams have won six Vancouver City Championships, eight Lower Mainland Independent School Championships, and seven Lower Mainland Championships. At BC Provincial Championships his teams have placed 5th (1999) and 8th (1997) at the AAA level and has been in the AA finals seven straight years (2004 – 2010) and won the final game four times (including bringing home the title in 2010). In the summer of 2006, Winston coached the Zone 5 (Vancouver and North Shore) U14 girls team at the BC Summer games, where they won gold (the first in the zone’s history). That same year, Basketball BC recognized Winston for his excellence in coaching achievement by presenting him with the Basketball BC Women’s Coach of the Year Award.
DRIVE Basketball
Winston’s passion is developing challenging touring schedules for his DRIVE club teams. Regardless of playing level, he wants his athletes to set goals and be placed in competitive situations where they are able to assess their own progress and (hopefully) set newer, loftier goals. He began coaching in 1995 and gained experience working in camps at UCLA (SUCCESS Basketball), Victoria, UBC, SFU, as well as creating his own in Vancouver. In 2004, Winston saw a lack of opportunities for athletes to experience elite basketball during the spring and summer, so he helped to create Triple Threat Basketball. The success of Triple Threat, motivated many athletes and coaches to create and develop their own club programs. In keeping with his desire to work with and be involved with those that he considered the best around, Winston merged Triple Threat with DRIVE, and has been blown away by the results. In describing his new relationship with DRIVE, and coaches Pasha and Chad, Winston says, “It is nice to be motivated and driven by your peers. The work that Chad and Pasha put in with their athletes is inspiring. They’ve set pretty high expectations for our program’s future and I’m excited to be a part of all of it.” As DRIVE grows and becomes more multifaceted as a club program, Winston is hoping that he will be able to contribute all of his experience in a productive way. Last year, Winston coached a very talented DRIVE U15 team that was able to capture the inaugural BC U15 Club championships. This is, hopefully, the first step towards a very successful future.
