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Saturday, July 21, 2018

The Collegiate Career of Jermaine Hall

An experienced basketball coach, Alex Groothuis has served as head coach of the Coral Springs Charter School men's team since 2010, during which time he has led the team to two district championships and one regional championship. Earlier in his career, Alex Groothuis was an assistant coach with Wagner College, where he assisted in the development of Jermaine Hall, one of the school’s all-time great scorers.

A native of Dublin, Georgia, Hall joined Wagner for his freshman season in 1999 and averaged 16.6 points, 6.5 rebounds, and 1.4 assists per game. The forward improved upon his point per game average in each of his four seasons with the team, culminating in a career-high 21.4 points per game during his senior season in 2002-03, when he won the NEC Player of the Year and NEC Tournament MVP and earned All-NEC First Team honors for the second consecutive year. The 6-foot-5, 220-pound forward also averaged career-best figures in rebounds (7.2) and assists (1.6) during his senior campaign while finishing first in the NEC in field goal percentage, effective field goal percentage, and win shares.

Although he went undrafted in the 2003 NBA Draft, he has since played for professional teams in Portugal and Israel. Hall most recently played for Maccabi Ashdod of the Israeli Basketball Premier League.

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Alex Groothuis has taught alongside and learned from successful coaches at the collegiate and national levels. Alex Groothuis’ extensive training and schooling prepared him well for his current position as Head Coach of the men’s basketball team at Palm Beach Community College, where Alex Groothuis oversees practices and strength conditioning, academic support programs, and budgeting.

Upon graduating from Syracuse University in 1995, Alex Groothuis instructed fundamental skills and basic game strategies at summer basketball camps for the university. In addition to his work with Syracuse, Alex Groothuis has taught game-winning abilities to collegiate athletes at instructional programs for Fordham University, Hofstra University, the Five-Star Basketball camp, and the Eastern Invitational clinic, a series of summer courses offered by one of the largest basketball instructional organizations in the world.

In 2001, Alex Groothuis assistant coached for former Detroit Pistons and Portland Trail Blazers Coach Herb Brown, training the USA Maccabi basketball team for the summer Maccabiah Games, an international Jewish sporting event held every four years. As Assistant Coach, Alex Groothuis planned new game strategies, scouted for talented recruits, and assisted at practices. With the involvement of Coach Alex Groothuis, the 12 Division 1 and professional players won a gold medal at the games that year in Tel Aviv.

Under Head Coach Dereck Whittenburg, Alex Groothuis worked as an Assistant Coach to the Wagner College men’s basketball team. Coach Alex Groothuis witnessed and coached two record-winning years for the Seahawk’s team, including the 2002-2003 season in which the Wagner players advanced to the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament and into the history books with the school’s first bid to the tourney.

Coach Alex Groothuis also successfully coached the Division III Brooklyn College Bridges basketball team. The men’s team won 16 games in 1999, under the guidance of Assistant Coach Alex Groothuis and his superiors, and went on to play at the final four of the City University of New York Athletic Conference.