Matt is the Co-owner and President of the Full Package Girls Basketball program, Matt has coached many of our teams to top 20 national rankings. Matt is also regarded as one of the best girls basketball instructors in Illinois. Matt, who coached at various high schools in the area, played at Brandeis University. Matt is also a 7th and 8th grade Social Studies teacher at Deer Path Middle School in Lake Forest.
Co-founder of Full Package Athletics, Steve is regarded as one of the finest basketball teachers in the nation.
Steve has trained thousands of athletes, including professional athletes Elton Brand, Brad Miller, Thabo Sefolosha, Brian Cook and Ruth Riley among many others. Every summer Steve prepares college players for the NBA Draft.
A Full Package coach since the programs' inception, Gesualdo's teams have dominated Illinois and had national success in several prestigious tournaments. Ralph coaches our Full Package Lady Lightning Elite high school teams. Ralph is regarded as one of the finest AAU coaches in the nation.
With coaching in his genes, Justin coaches many Full Package girls' teams both at the middles school and high school levels. Justin has also coached at Lake Forest High School and various feeder programs in the area.
Rick Kolsky, a former Division I basketball player at Brown University, has been coaching youth sports on the North Shore for the past 22 years. By day, Rick is a business consultant and lecturer at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern. Rick's philosophy is "develop leadership, teamwork, and skills...victory and a lifelong love of the game will follow." Since 2003, Rick has coached our 6th and 7th grade girls elite teams, including a final-8 finish at the 2004 AAU Nationals.
Elliot has coached many Full Package high school Teams. Elliot is a teacher at Niles West High School and currently coaches the Sophomore boys team at Glenbrook South High School. Elliot has also coached the girls at Evanston High School. Elliot has helped run basketball camps across the country.
Dan coaches travel teams for Full Package along with helping instruct at our camps. Dan has coached 7th Grade boys' basketball for the past 3 years at Macarthur Middle School. Dan spent the previous 2 years coaching and being an athletic director for Queen of the Rosary school in Elk Grove.