COACHING STAFF
Tom Topping
Director
Coach Topping has enjoyed success as a college and high school coach while working for a pair of legendary college coaches in Glenn Wilkes (500+ wins) and Gene Smithson (300+ wins). While serving as the director of NTF, he has worked as a Commissioner at the NIKE All-American Camp and a coach at the NIKE Skills Academies. In 2004, Coach Topping was named to the coaching staff of the USA Basketball Youth Development Games. In addition to operating NTF, Coach Topping is currently an administrator in the Pinellas County School System.
Ed Hall
16u Coach
Coach Hall brings a lifetime of coaching experience to NIKE Team Florida with 23 years in the college game including stops at Wake Forest, Tennessee and Old Dominion. He has been a long time lecturer and coach at the prestigious Five Star Basketball Camp as well at the 2006 FHSCA Clinic with Florida Head Coach Billy Donovan and the 2007 NABC Clinic at the Final Four. In April of 2014, Coach Hall was honored with the National Association of Basketball Coach's Guardian of the Game Award at the Final Four in Dallas, TX.
BJ Ivey
16u Coach
BJ is in his second season with NIKE Team Florida. He is currently the Head Coach at Sarasota Riverview High School where he has captured four district titles since taking over in the 2009-10 season. A former standout player at Riverview, Coach Ivey went on to play collegiately at USC-Aiken.
Martin McCann
16u Coach
Martin is in his second season with NIKE Team Florida and is currently one of the youngest college Head Coaches in the country at Palm Beach State. McCann is in his fourth year as a college coach following a 4-year playing career at Hartwick College (NY).