Marvin Harvey (basketball) facts for kids

Marvin Wayne Harvey, born on May 12, 1954, is a famous American basketball shooting instructor. He used to play and coach college basketball. Today, he owns and runs a special training center called Shot Lab™ in Tampa, Florida. He also runs the Marvin Harvey Basketball School of Excellence.

He has been teaching basketball players how to shoot since 1982. As a coach, he has won over 400 games in high school and college. For more than 28 years, he has trained some of the best shooters in the world. Two of his well-known students are Raja Bell and Tamika Catchings. People often call him the "Shot Doctor" because he's so good at helping players improve their shooting.

Marvin Harvey's Early Life

Marvin Harvey was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He went to Paseo High School. After high school, he decided to try out for the basketball team at Penn Valley Community College. He played there for two years.

Later, Harvey received a scholarship to play basketball at Ottawa University. He graduated from Ottawa University in 1980. In 1982, Harvey tried out for the NBA in Los Angeles, California. He made it to the final tryout group. Then, Marty Blake, who was a chief scout for the NBA, chose him to attend two more training camps for different NBA teams.

Coaching in Kansas and Missouri

Marvin Harvey became the head coach for both the boys' and girls' basketball teams. This was at Santa Fe Trail Jr. High School in Olathe, Kansas. During his time there, his boys' team had three seasons with only one loss each.

In 1983, he became the Shooting Coach for the University of Kansas Women's Basketball team. After that, he worked as a Shooting Coach for many major colleges and universities in Missouri and Kansas. He started the first program in Kansas for individual and small group player development. This program was called the Basketball Workshop.

As his program became well-known, Harvey began training his first NBA player. This player was Clay Johnson. Clay Johnson later won an NBA Championship with the Los Angeles Lakers. During the same summer, Harvey traveled across the United States. He was known as the "Shot Doctor" during these tours. He worked with top NCAA Women's Basketball Coaches for the Lynette Woodard free basketball camps. These tours offered free clinics. They also talked about important topics like character and being a student-athlete. Harvey also created a video called "Shooting the Basketball." It was sold across the country with a free poster to help players learn.

Expanding His Reach: Florida, Alabama, and Texas

From 1991 to 1993, Marvin Harvey traveled all over Florida. He taught girls how to shoot a basketball correctly. Because of this tour, in 1993, Harvey became the Athletic Director for Pine Castle Christian Academy in Orlando, FL. He worked there for six years. During his time, the Academy was nominated three times for a special sportsmanship award.

He then worked for one year as an Assistant Coach for the Women's Basketball team at the University of South Alabama. The next year, he became the Head Coach for the Alabama Mobile team in the NWBL (a women's basketball league that no longer exists). At this time, he also helped with the NCAA Sports Program at Bishop State Community College. He worked with young people who needed extra support. He helped them get on a better path.

In 2000, Harvey stopped teaching and coaching full-time. He wanted to focus on "Individual Player Development." This means helping individual players improve their skills. He moved to Houston,Texas. There, he trained college and professional players at the Tony Westside Tennis Club with John Lucas II. He also worked at training camps and was a shooting coach for the WNBA Houston Comets. He was even allowed to watch the Houston Rockets workouts under coach Rudy Tomjanovich. At the same time, Antonio Lang, an NBA player for the Philadelphia 76ers, hired Harvey. Harvey helped Lang change his playing style from a forward to a guard.

In 2001, Harvey returned to Florida. He started his non-profit organization called C5D Inc. He also started a for-profit academy called Harvey's "Shooter's Touch" Academy. In August 2002, Marvin Harvey received awards in Bogotá, Colombia. This was for training international teams in the SaludCup, a FIBA Basketball Association event. He trained teams and shared his shooting knowledge with coaches from many countries. These included Europe, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Dominican Republic, and Cuba.

In 2003, he took his HSTA/Shot Lab LLC on the road. He became the Shooting Director at the RDV Sports Complex. This complex is home to the NBA Orlando Magic. Here, he started using "video-analysis" to help NBA players. This means recording players and watching the video to see how they can improve. The next year, Harvey became the Director of Basketball Operations at Champions Sports Complex of Orlando. This was also home to HSTA/Shot Lab. After working there for two years, he became the Director of Basketball Operations at the EDGE Training Facility, which was also home to HSTA. In 2005, Marvin Harvey expanded his basketball training program to Monterrey, Mexico. There, he met Vicente Fox, who was the President of Mexico at the time.

The Shot Lab and Recent Work

In 2008, Marvin Harvey worked with a South African Petroleum Company Engen and Octagan Marketing Company. They created a Coaches DVD. This DVD was made to help build basketball programs and increase TV visibility in South Africa. This included cities like Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Durban.

Later in 2008, Harvey moved his C5D Inc Foundation and Harvey's "Shooters Touch" Academy to Tampa, Florida. HSTA also started operations in Monterrey, Mexico. This was part of the New Fundamentals Series, in partnership with the American School of Fundamentals. The year 2009 marked the creation of the Shot Lab. It is known as the most complete way to break down and understand the mechanics of shooting a basketball in the world.

The Shot Lab has been a place where many college and WNBA players have found help. These include college players like John Henson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Dominique Jones (University of South Florida). WNBA players like Alana Beard (Washington Mystics), Marie Ferdinand-Harris (Los Angeles Sparks), and Armintie Price (Atlanta Dream) have also used the Shot Lab for shooting development. In 2009, Harvey officially became the shooting coach for the WNBA Eastern Conference Champion Indiana Fever.

In 2010, Harvey wrote three books. These were Winning Within Reason, The New Fundamentals: Coaches Manual, and The New Fundamentals: Coaches Workbook. His spring tour in 2010 included Italy, France, Serbia, Georgia, and Turkey. His summer teaching tour included the National Basketball Team of Rwanda, Africa, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Colombia, Australia, and Japan.

Harvey joined the Winthrop University Women's Basketball coaching staff for two years (2015–2017). He studied shooting percentages there. He also presented something called Fusion Rehab at the college level. After this, he created the Eight to IX Lab in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and in Jacksonville, Florida. In these labs, he helps players improve their basic skills to professional-level skills.

External links

• Marvin Harvey
• Engen fuels basketball coaching development in SA, MyBasketball
• Marvin Harvey Basketball School of Excellence – Summer Camps, Corbett Preparatory School of IDS
• FIBA.basketball
• Catchings keeps tinkering overtime to figure out why shot is off, IndyStar
• fevers douglas finds herself among the best, IndyStar
• Professional Experience Timeline

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