MEET OUR TEAM

Chris Corbett – Founder

Founder Buzzworthy Basketball Marketing
Director of Player Development & Founder of Austin Youth Basketball
Former Collegiate Basketball Player at University of Maine at Fort Kent
Lifelong Learner and Basketball Junkie
Learned Player Development by Sitting in on Laker and Clipper Player Development Summer Training Sessions
Has played and trained with hundreds of NBA and collegiate stars
25 Year Career in Corporate America focused on delivering more customers, designing quality customer experiences and business development thru sales, on and off line marketing, and management experience
Certified Inbound Marketing Specialist
Venture Forth Graduate of Tech Ranch Austin Business Accelerator

Mike VandeGarde – Advisor

Academic All American Basketball Player at Illinois State
Professional Basketball Player in Europe and South America
Division 1 Coach at Texas State
Has helped groom several NBA talents
15 Years as NBA scout with the 76ers.

Kevin Koym – Advisor

Co-Founder of Tech Ranch Austin – committed to accelerating entrepreneur success and changing the world.
Leader of community consisting of vibrant tech start-ups and more than 300 entrepreneurs in software, hardware, alternative energy and emerging technologies have participated in Tech Ranch Austin programs.
Chief Architect and Firestarter of Bootstrap Austin

Chris Price – Content Development Director

Collegiate Basketball Player at University of Texas
Player Development Coach forAustin Youth Basketballl
Lead Camp Director
Content Development Director for Buzzworthy Basketball Marketing
Successful Career in Retail Banking and founder of Tungsten Logistics
BA in Business from the University of Texas

"Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life."

"Your true happiness comes from giving, not getting."

"The best way to improve the team is to improve yourself."

‎"No trophy has ever produced the deep satisfaction in me that the act of teaching produces... The bond between teacher and student is a sacred trust. I treated that bond with the utmost respect."

“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”

“If I am through learning, I am through.”

“Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.”

"I don’t look for ‘greatest’. I seek greatness. And it is available to each one of us."

"People ask if I raised my own family the way I ran the UCLA Basketball team. I tell them, 'No, I ran the team pretty much like I ran my family.' Only with the family I had the greatest co-coach working alongside me, by the name of Nellie."

"Each of us must make the effort to contribute to the best of our ability according to our individual talents. And then we put all the individual talents together for the highest good of the group. … Understanding that the good of the group comes first is fundamental to being a highly productive member of a team. "