Tom Newell (basketball)

WNBA team Portland Fire. Coach Newell also has been the Men's National Team Coach of Japan (2000), as well as Coach of the Jilin NE Tigers China Basketball Association team. His extensive travels since leaving the NBA have spanned the globe: Vladivostok, Russia...Yakutsk, Russia...Ireland...Belgium...St.Kitts, St. Vincent Grenadines...Seoul, Korea...Caracas, Venezuela...Guatemala...Canada...Madrid, Spain...Taipei, China...Manila, Philippines...He currently represents the State Department as a Sports Ambassador, teaching coaches and players about the game of basketball...he also represents FIBA as one of the Expert Instructors in their Olympic Development Program for Third World countries. Coach Newell is very active in his community with free camps and clinics for kids ages: 7–15...This camp program is designed to teach kids about being on a team, working together and making right choices away from home and school environs...The themes of his Best Effort Camps & Clinics are: "Eat Right to Play Right" and "Let's Cease to be Obese"...This program received the prestigious "Denny Award" from the City of Seattle Parks and Recreation Department, acknowledging those citizens who volunteer projects in education and environment that enhance the lives of others in the Seattle community (2008)...^[1]