Miguel McKelvey will be the Head Coach for the London Elite U14 Boys Team which will compete in the Premier Division of the National Basketball League in the 2023/24 season. Miguel was assistant coach during the 2022/23 season, and brings a wealth of basketball knowledge to London Elite, having played played on the NCAA Division 1 team Oregon Ducks during his college years.
Coach Alek Blagoevski-Trazoff is our truly international basketball coach.
Alek played competitive youth basketball at the U14-18 for BC Rabotnicki in North Macedonia and the Macedonian Youth National Team. He started his coaching career in the mid-90s when he worked with both the Men’s and Women’s college teams for a Sports Olympiad Tournament for two years in a row.
As a youth coach, Alek has worked in the United States with a U12 boys’ team, competing in a North Virginia basketball league; with a Varsity Girls Basketball team in an international school in Sao Paulo, Brazil; he also implemented a community basketball development program, held basketball clinics, day camps and skills improvement workshops there. He briefly coached a Boys Varsity Team in an international school in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Coach Alek currently holds a license from Basketball England and has previously been licensed by the North Macedonian National Basketball Federation and USA Basketball. He also was certified by the National Federation of State High School Associations as a basketball coach. Last season Coach Alek came in at the start of the second half of the season and coached the London Elite U16 Boys with Coach Mauro. He helped the team win all the regular season games and win the promotion to the Premier Division.
Coach Alek is currently the Head Coach for the London Elite U14 Boys Team which will compete in the Premier Division of the National Basketball League in the 2022/23 season.
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Mauro started his career as basketball coach very young, at 18 years old, in Italy as First Assistant Coach/Video Analyst in Italy of the Men’s and Youth Programme. The Men’s team, Virtus Pozzuoli, competed in the Italian 3rd Division reaching the finals in the first year.
His journey continued in London for a Master’s degree and he continued coaching his Alma Mater, University of Westminster, as Head Coach of the 2nd team and as Assistant Coach of the First Team. In the first year, Mauro led the Second Team to promotion in the BUCS League.
Mauro has also helped as an assistant coach of the Basketball England Aspire programme for the London Region, where he won the Aspire Programme Tournament with the U13 Boys.
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