Mike Klinzing played his high school basketball at Strongsville, OH High School. During his career at Strongsville, Mike was a three year varsity player. He was named first team All-Pioneer Conference in his junior and senior seasons. As a senior Mike was named Pioneer Conference MVP, All-District, and All-State. In 1995 Mike was elected to the Strongsville High School Hall of Fame.
COLLEGE
Mike went on to earn a full scholarship to play basketball at Kent State University in the Mid-American Conference. While at Kent Mike became just the 15th member of the university's 1,000 Point Club. As a three year starter, he was named to the All Mid-American Conference Academic Team three times. Mike was also named to the GTE-COSIDA All-America Team three times. He still holds several records at Kent for three-point shooting including the most in one game (9) and the record for most steals in one game (8).
COACHING CAREER
Mike began his high school coaching career back at Strongsville, OH High School as a junior varsity assistant coach. From there Mike returned to school to earn his elementary teaching certificate. During those two years Mike was the Junior Varsity Head Coach at Bay High School in Bay Village, OH. Mike was hired as a teacher at Richmond Heights, OH Elementary School in 1995 and has been the Assistant Varsity Basketball Coach at Richmond Heights High School the past twelve seasons.
HEAD START BASKETBALL CAMP DIRECTOR
Mike began working at basketball camps while still playing at Kent State. He was able to work with and learn from coaches at camps like Michael Jordan's Flight School, The Ron Harper Basketball Camp, The Scott Roth Basketball Camp, The Ohio State University Basketball Camp (Gary Williams and Randy Ayers), and The University of Michigan Basketball Camp (Steve Fisher). After graduating from Kent and with his vast camp experience Mike set out to develop a camp that would be great fun for kids and teach them the game too! That is how the HEAD START BASKETBALL CAMPS came to be and why they are so successful today.
AUTHOR
Mike and his father Jim have written four books designed for the young basketball player who wants to develop their skills: Basketball For Starters and Stars, Beginning Basketball, Fundamental Basketball, and The Head Start FUN-damentals Booklet. Click Book Links to order from our publishers.
