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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Sports or Recreation |
| Occupation | Basketball Coach and Consultant |
| Location | Camp Springs, MD, United States |
| Introduction | Coach Ed Atlas played as a youth in Hempstead, Long Island, NY in the shadows of the former ABA's New York Nets and NBA legend, Julius "Dr. "J" Erving. Coach Atlas has played and coached for over 23 years on U.S. Army post and company level basketball teams in DC, VA, NC, SC, OK, TX, Korea, Italy and Turkey (including one semi-professional season in Istanbul, Turkey). Coach Atlas played for winning teams with the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon during General Colin Powell's tenure and for the White House Communications Agency during the Clinton Administration. He also played on 1994 and 2003 Washington DC NBA Hoop-it-Up Division Championship teams. Coach Atlas has coached on the elementary school level, also for the YMCA, US Army Dependent Youth Activity leagues, Silver Hill, MD Boys and Girls Clubs, MD Blazers 12U AAU assistant coach, Mid Atlantic Select AAU 14U assistant coach. Coach Atlas is CEO of www.atlas-hoops.com. Coach Atlas obtained a Masters Degree of Education, with a concentration in Curriculum and Instruction from National-Louis University, Washington, DC. and is completing a basketball book entitled, "The Art of Hoops". |
| Interests | basketball, jazz, poetry, computers, youth mentoring and education |
| Favorite movies | Cornbread Earl and Me, Rebound, The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh, Glory Road and Coach Carter. |
| Favorite music | Coltrane, Miles Davis, Theolonius Monk, Oscar Peterson, Public Enemy, KRS-One, Tribe Called Quest |
| Favorite books | The Autobiography of Malcolm X, The Spook who sat by the door, Manchild in a Promised Land |