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Becky Hammon

Assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs

All About Becky

Rebecca “Becky” Hammon was born on March 11, 1977 in Rapid City, South Dakota.

Oldest of three. High School accomplishments:

› South Dakota Miss Basketball› South Dakota player of the year› Voted female class athlete

College Career

Attended Colorado State› All-American while playing for the Rams

Set all-time records› 1998-1999 season- Sweet 16› WAC player of the year› 1999- Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award as

best senior player under 5’8.› 2004- inducted into the Colorado State

University Sports Hall of Fame.

Professional Career

Played in the WNBA for the New York Liberty

2004- Became one of the team’s co-captains.

2005- scored her 2000th WNBA career pointAll-WNBA 2nd team

2007- Rivas Futura in the Spanish league Traded to Silver Stars

› “Big Shot Becky”

Coaching Career

August 2014- hired as an assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs

First full-time salaried female coach in NBA history!

Challenges

Biggest challenge: she got the job on her basketball ability and not because of her gender. › “Obviously, this is great and it’s a tremendous honor,

but I think the bigger point is I'm getting hired because I'm capable, because of my basketball IQ, and stuff that they've seen in me personally”.

She believes challenges build character and build a persistence about herself; make her work and study harder.› ''All those little things that you go through year after

year, it builds something in you. Now, taking on this next challenge, I know the same thing that got me through those things are the fibers of what I'm made up of.”

Coaching

Travel’s weekly during the season Keeps track of offensive sets/actions,

defensive efficiency, and defensive contests/ non-contests, missed coverages, and individual player notes.

1:32 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhFq6w3prgQ

Bill Uglow

Vice President of Consumer Products & Licensing for Professional Bull Riders

Bill Uglow

Bachelor’s of science in business at Florida Atlantic University

Assisting & retail leasing (The MGM Grand, Luxor, Monte Carlo, etc.)

Negotiate locations for clients at McCarran International Airport and for high quality Las Vegas shopping centers.

Co-founded iclicensing.com

Career Path

In college, he began his retail career working at JC Penny.

Merchandise operations at Walt Disney World. Promoted to the merchandising and product

development department. Merchandise manager for Walk Disney World. 1993- MGM Grand Resort as its VP Retail Operator

› Designed each of the stores, hired staff 30 days before opening

1997- promoted to President of MGM Grand Retail Vice President of Consumer Products and Licensing for

Professional Bull Riders and SVP Consumer Products and Licensing for United Football League.

Advice

“It is important to do a lot of transference work moving ideas and concepts from one industry to another. Bringing sound to the merchandise brings light to the products you are trying to sell. Get involved with product development; the more you know the better you will be”.

Bill Uglow

What is your biggest professional accomplishment? › I held the unofficial title of having the lowest

cost of goods in the hospitality industry for many years. And the second would be doing a lot of product development. I am really a product guy. The count is over 50,000.

What is your biggest professional disappointment?› When MGM Mirage purchased Mandalay Resort

Group there was a group of us that wanted the reverse to happen.

Sources

http://billuglow.com/secure/index.htm http://www.sbnation.com/2014/1/2/526

6348/nba-assistant-coaches-tracking-stats

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/spurs-hire-wnba-star-becky-070429652--nba.html

http://www.sportscareers.com/sports-career-spotlight.asp?id=136