Directors and Coaches

The Directors of the Minnesota Stars are Brad, Tim and Ron Hested. Brad was one of the founding directors of the Minnesota Stars and has several years of coaching experience at the elite AAU level.  Tim Hested is the founding director of Hoops 101 Basketball Schools, and has several years experience coaching at the elite AAU level.  Ron Hested provides valuable insight and experience to the Stars team.  His 35 years of head high school coaching experience provides steady leadership to our program.  Our goal is to provide the best AAU experience in the country to the girls that are in our program.  

Brad, Tim and Ron also run the Stars Scouting Service - a recruiting guide for college coaches that accurately rates the top 100 players in the state of Minnesota.  The Stars Scouting Service also organizes and runs two top exposure events.  The adidas Mid American Women's Basketball Championships is a premier national tournament during the July "live" recruiting period, and the adidas Stars Shootout every September, a one day "live" event with top Dl and Dll college coaches analyzing over 175 players. 

In the last 5 seasons we showed that hard work, quality coaching and top talent can lead to outstanding success on the basketball court.  With the partnerships of All Star Girls Report, adidas, and the Stars Scouting Report the Minnesota Stars elite basketball program offers young women the best opportunity to take their game to the next level and become a top college basketball recruit!!!

Our 2008 coaching staff is a top notch "professional staff". From Minnesota State Hall of Fame Coach (Ron Hested), to coaches who have had their teams in the State High School Tournaments (Willie Taylor), to a couple of the best, young up and coming coaches in High School and AAU, the 2008 Minnesota Stars Coaching Staff is a solid group of professional coaches.


Mark Smith 16U
President of the Minnesota Stars, Mark has coached at the AAU Level for 10 years. 6 of those in Indiana with 4 years here in  MN. In 2001 coached his 12's team to a State Championship in the state of Indiana.  In 2004 he formed the team ATTITUDE and coached  the 15's team to various AAU tournament wins with a 2nd place finish in the GREAT Lakes Shootout.  Mark will add tremendous energy and professionalism to our staff.

Tim Hested 16U
Director of the Minnesota Stars and the Stars Scouting Service. Has coached elite girls basketball for 8 years. His teams have won the Minnesota 16U State Championship 2 out of the last 5 and have been second or third in the other years.

Tom Eckmann 16U
Director of the Minnesota Stars, Tom is one of recruiting guru's of the Minnesota Stars.  The father of a Minnesota Star player (Rachelle), Tom adds instant credibility to the program when he is out and about on the recruiting trail.  "Tiny" as he is called is the ultimate ambassador for the Minnesota Stars Program.

Bruce Borowicz 16U
Director of the Minnesota Stars, Bruce has coached AAU with the South of the River Racers over the past 4 seasons leading the team to successful tournament trips to Memphis, TN and Portland, OR the past two summers.  On the high school level Bruce has served as an assistant coach with the Jordan girls program for 2 years and as the head coach of Lake Park - Audubon girls basketball as well.  He spent 5 years as an assistant coach at the college level with Moorhead State University, Moorhead, MN and Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR.  His duties included assisting the varsity teams, coaching posts, and serving as Head Coach of the Junior Varsity teams.

Scott Antl 11U
Director of Minnesota Stars, cott is currently an assistant girls coach at Centennial High School.   He has coached in youth basketball (AAU) & (Traveling) programs for the past 10 years. In the 03' - 04' season he won the state championship at the 14U level.  He has also coached girls fast pitch softball and has been to Nationals the past 4 years and last year his team finished 5th in the nation.

Dave DeWitt 16U
In Coach Dave DeWitt’s first season at the helm of the Anoka Ramsey Women’s Basketball program he guided the Golden Rams to a 26-4 record, the MCCC Southern Division Championship, the MCCC State Championship, the Region 13A Championship and the 2007 NJCAA Division III National Championship. Along the way, he earned Region, District and National Coach of the Year Honors.  Coach DeWitt brings more than 30 years of coaching experience to the Minnesota Stars program.   In 1985, Coach DeWitt moved on to Centennial High School where for 16 years he served as Head Coach of Boys Basketball. During this time his Centennial teams won 2 conference championships, advanced to the section championship game on 2 other occasions and he became the winningest boy’s basketball coach in school history. In 1997 he was selected by his peers to serve as Coach for the MBCA all-star series and in 1999 selected again by his peers as Section Coach of the Year. DeWitt continues to teach Physical Education at Centennial High School and serves as Department Chair as well.

Coach DeWitt also runs a metro summer league for boys and girls at various metro area sites and directs several summer basketball camps including a Shooting and Scoring camp at Spring Lake Park High School, a specialty camp for Post Players at Northwestern College in Roseville and a week long boys Christian Basketball boarding camp also at Northwestern College.

Kevin Carlisle 15U
Kevin is the Minneapolis Curfew/Truancy Director.  He has worked with youth for over sixteen years.  Kevin was Director/Coach of the Minnesota Total Package Girl’s Basketball team since 1996. He has coach his own program for eleven years.  His team’s have won numerous 1^st & 2^nd places during the AAU seasons.  His 15 & Under team from 2006 finished 2^nd place in the State.  Also, he was the Head Coach for the Varsity Boy’s Basketball for St. Agnes and Varsity Girl’s Basketball St. Paul Academy and Summit School.

He has received several community awards from the Hennepin County Attorney Office – Community Leadership Award 2003, Minnesota Timberwolves/Lynx and Jostens – Heroes In the Making 2001, and Diamonds in the Rough – Pioneer of Girl’s and Women’s Basketball 2001.

Ron Hested 14U
A retired Minnesota Hall of Fame boys basketball coach from Fairmont. Ron has worked with elite girls teams for 3 years. He assisted Tim Hested with the 2003 16U State AAU Championship team. He runs several of the Hoops 101 schools throughout the state. One of the best teachers involved in girls elite basketball. Ron is number 21 on the list of all time wins for boys coaches in the state of Minnesota with 508.

Barry Peterson 14U
Barry is in his second year of coaching with the Minnesota Stars.  He is an energetic and positive coach who has the ability to get his teams to play beyond their ability.  A great student of the game Barry has quickly become a great asset to our program and top flight coach.

Curt Setter 14U
Curt joins the Stars with years of basketball experience.  Curt's background includes the head boys coach at Minnetonka High School and was also an assistant coach at the University of North Dakota with Dave Gunther.  Curt as  worked for 15 years at various summer camps for boys and girls.  He also coached a variety of successful teams.  Curt is also a referee for college basketball games throughout the Midwest.

Todd Anderson 13U
Todd joins the MN Stars with several year of high school coaching experience at various levels.

Nate Higgins
Nate brings a great back ground and energy to the Minnesota Stars.  He comes to the Minnesota Stars with many years of head coaching and experience in the game of basketball.  He has coached for 6 years as the head boys coach at Montgomery Lonsdale HS.  He has worked for 7 years at coach K's camp at Duke University.  He also has experience coaching at the college level, spending a year at Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato.

Jamie Jones 11U
Jamie is a sophomore at Concordia University where she is a member of the Women's basketball team.  Jamie was one of the best leaders ever to play with the MN Stars.  Here energy and love for the game of basketball shows every time she plays.  Known for her big heart, she will be a great asset to the Stars organization.

At Irondale HS she led the conference with an Irondale single-season record 535 points, 52 three-pointers, 148 steals and 118 assists during 2004-05 season ... earned nine total letters: four in basketball, three in volleyball and two in track ... named all-metro first team and first team all-defense.  Jamie was a three-time all-conference basketball performer and two-time all-conference volleyball player. She was a two-time basketball team MVP and captain and she arned academic honor roll.  Jamie participated on the student council, the leadership committee, in the Business Professionals of America, as a mentor, and in leadership training.