PUSH Podcast: Wheelchair Basketball in the United States
Derek Hoot
12 episodes
5 days ago
"PUSH Podcast: Wheelchair Basketball in the United States" follows the standout coaches and athletes of the sport of wheelchair basketball through all levels: youth, college, professional and Paralympic. The host, Derek Hoot, played for the University of Illinois and later Hamburg Sports-Verein.
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"PUSH Podcast: Wheelchair Basketball in the United States" follows the standout coaches and athletes of the sport of wheelchair basketball through all levels: youth, college, professional and Paralympic. The host, Derek Hoot, played for the University of Illinois and later Hamburg Sports-Verein.
Episode 3: Matt Buchi, Head Coach of the University of Illinois Fighting Illini
PUSH Podcast: Wheelchair Basketball in the United States
57 minutes 13 seconds
4 years ago
Episode 3: Matt Buchi, Head Coach of the University of Illinois Fighting Illini
Matt Buchi has been head coach of the Fighting Illini Men’s Wheelchair Basketball Team Since 2013. Matt has acted as assistant coach for the Fighting Illini Men, the Alabama Women, and the USA Women’s National Team. After his assistant coaching career, he took up Head Coaching at Oklahoma State University before landing his dream job as Head Coach at the University of Illinois.
In this episode, we discuss Matt’s transition from college basketball player to coach, the international experiences that strengthened his love for coaching, and the unique challenges that come from this season as well as the future of the college division. I hope you enjoy my chat with Matt in this episode of the Push Podcast. For more wheelchair basketball content, follow my instagram @push_sports_mag. To learn more about the Illinois wheelchair basketball program, follow them on instagram at @illiniwcbb.
Note: the coach quoted as saying “Ask me in [10] years and we’ll see how successful these [my team is] Then I’ll be able to tell you if I succeeded as a coach” is Coach Ward Lambert, who coached John Wooden as a college basketball player at Purdue University.
PUSH Podcast: Wheelchair Basketball in the United States
"PUSH Podcast: Wheelchair Basketball in the United States" follows the standout coaches and athletes of the sport of wheelchair basketball through all levels: youth, college, professional and Paralympic. The host, Derek Hoot, played for the University of Illinois and later Hamburg Sports-Verein.
