After a successful Season 16 campaign that saw the Under 21 squad win its 3rd Americas championship and clinch a spot in this season's Worlds tourney, the team looks to have a successful campaign in Senegal this season. Returning 3 standouts from last season's squad, the US junior team looks to redeem its Season 15 defeat to China and win its first Worlds Championship.
Head Coach: Rambo VT(22884)Rambo has been an active member of the US community since Season 3, and is currently in the NBBA coming off his first season as U21 head coach.
Assistant Coach: Magiker67(30267)Magiker has been a successful BB manager and is currently in the 3rd division. He also is very active and knowledgeable in our NT discussions on our offsite forum:
http://s3.zetaboards.com/BuzzerBeater_USA_NT/index/Senior Advisor: Namssor(23403)Namssor was the other main candidate in this season's NT election, and has had experience as head coach of the New Zealand National Team. He also is in the NBBA, now entering his 2nd season there.
Lead Scout: Public Enemy #1 aka Wanted Outlaws(29984)PE#1 is entering his 5th season in BB and is looking to bring fresh ideas to the NT.
Public Relations Director: panic129(30802)Panic129 is entering his 4th season in BB and his 2nd in the 4th division. He and NT PR director SpF look to bring you more interesting tidbits about both USA National Teams.
QuotesRambo-This season's staff comes from a wide range of experience and level of competition. I tried to fit everyone's strengths and interests in where I thought they could make the biggest impact. With namssor his experience at the club and NT level should be invaluable and rather than have him write-up scouting reports each week I'm hoping he can just look over my shoulder and make sure I don't do anything egregious. magiker just kind of came out of no where to me, I started reading some of his posts, a lot of it was counter to what everyone else was saying. Jfarb and I both agreed that he was sharp and could be a future asset or coach for the NT and I look forward to getting his insight on our opponents. With PublicEnemy#1, his training of Ed Shepherd kind of speaks for itself and I wanted to give him a chance to continue that on a larger scale. He will be helping pick and develop our depth chart and form a short list of players we can call up. I look forward to working with them all this year and they seem very eager to help.
Please do come out and support your U21 squad, as well as your NT, starting on their Americas quest tonight! We wish them well.