BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN WARING
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In
March of 2006, he expanded the Pacesetter Basketball operation
into Wisconsin, opening training sites in suburban Milwaukee and Madison,
offering talented high school and collegiate players in the Badger state the
opportunity to take their game to the next level. He is the personal basketball trainer for 25 current All-State H.S. players in Illinois and Wisconsin, along with dozens of Division 1 collegiate players who work with him each summer. In the past five years alone, his Pacesetter Basketball program has helped produce
In
January of 2005, he was named Director of Woman's Basketball for Full
Package Athletics, Inc. based in Lake Forest, IL where he was
responsible for all aspects of the women's program including the individual and group training of players, overseeing all of the Full Package national
traveling teams, and the college recruitment of the players in the
program. He left that position in August of 2005 to fufill his dream of
starting PACESETTER BASKETBALL and running a company devoted solely to
the development of women's basketball players throughout the midwest. The
previous four years (2000-2004), he was the Basketball Director and
head coach of the nationally known Illinois Pacesetters Girls
Basketball Program in Illinois. During his tenure of developing,
training, and coaching the players in the program, an amazing 98% of
his players received full-ride basketball scholarships to Division 1 or
II universities. His individual training program helped produce 17
Illinois All-State players during that four year span, including three
1st Team All-Staters. His national traveling teams were known for their
unselfish team play, work ethic, and toughness evidenced by his 2004
16-Under team that finished in the top 5 in the three toughest national
observation events in July and drew an astounding 77 charging fouls in
their 18 games played during that time. Renowned for his expertise on teaching shooting, he is the instructor for Courtney Weibel
(Rockton Hononegah H.S., IL/Marquette University) who in 2007 set a new
National Girls High School Record for Career 3-Point field goals (471);
Tara Michels
(Northern Illinois University), the 2004 Queen of the Hill Illinois
3-Point State Champion and former IHSA State Record Holder for
Consecutive Free Throws made in a season (39) and Sarah Halbrader (Sr; Boylan H.S., IL), the 2005 Class 'AA' Illinois 3-Point State Champion. From
2001-2004, Waring was also an assistant women's coach at McHenry County
College in Crystal Lake, IL where he was in charge of recruiting and
player development and was instrumental in the Lady Scots winning three
consecutive Skyway Conference championships. His
training program helped produce two Junior College All-Americans, Andi
Brooke (Northern Michigan University) and Alyssa Jaenke (Southern
Illinois University), as well as eight Skyway All-Conference players. Waring
made a permanent transition to coaching women exclusively beginning in
1995 when he help start the Fox Valley Feeder League for girls based in
Cary, IL. He coached and instructed 7th and 8th grade girls providing
them with the proper fundamental base that they would later take to the
high school level. He was a fixture in the program until 1999 when he
left to start the Illinois Pacesetters program. He
is also a member of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association which
helps promote the development of the game of basketball as an amateur
sport for women and girls. Waring is a 1982 graduate of Indiana State University and has two daughters, Samantha 26, and Ann 23 and two grandchildren, Nia 4, and Clinton 2. |
During
the past 14 years, John Waring has established himself as one of the
finest women's basketball instructors, trainers, and coaches in the
midwest. He has been a driving force in developing top collegiate
players, nationally rated high school players, and dozens of All-State
players from Illinois and Wisconsin. His unique "Progression System" of
teaching that combines fundamental skill work, conditioning, building
player self-confidence, and individual development within a team
concept has solidified his reputation as one of the truly rising stars
in the women's basketball coaching ranks.