Meet The Team
GB Maxibasketball is coordinated by a committed group of people with many years experience of playing, coaching, sports science support and national team management in performance basketball environments. These include FIBA European Basketball Championships, Four Countries International Tournaments, Pre-Olympic qualifying tournaments, World University Games and more recently at FIMBA World Maxibasketball Championships. With the programme being integrated within a national Talent Pathway, remote medical support is available via the GB Basketball Chief Medical Officer.
Programme Coordinators
Former international players, Sadie Mason MBE and Emma Parslow have co-ordinated the GB Maxibasketball programme since its inception in 2018. Collectively, they work behind the scenes to manage recruitment, camp logistics, marketing and communications, whilst liaising closely with Basketball England, sponsors and external suppliers.
Sadie is an ex-England & GB international baller, and has seven years logistics experience having worked in a performance environment as Team Manager for England & GB U18 Women’s Basketball team (2011-18).
Emma is also an ex-England international, and brings over a decade of National League (Div 1) experience, and knows what it takes to succeed in a performance environment.
Jesse is a well respected national and international coach, with 12 years service as the Canterbury Academy EABL Head Coach, five seasons as England U15 Men’s Head Coach and three stretches as England U16 Men’s Assistant Coach.
Coach Lee comes to us with national and international coaching experience, including as an England Talent Pathway Development Coach, England U18 Women’s Assistant (2013) and Wales Senior Women. He currently coaches the Sheffield Hatters WNBL 2 team.
Mark is Director, Consultant Physiotherapist and Performance Coach at Dayson Physio & Sports Rehab. Mark currently works with the GB U20 Men’s Basketball Team, and has supported England Teams at 10 FIBA European Championships from U16 to U20 age groups, and has over 140 international game-experiences to his name.
Louisa is a former basketball player and community coach who now runs her own business, as well as looking after her family. She is a huge supporter of maxibasketball in the UK and abroad.
Alessandro is based in Canterbury, Kent and is an experienced events manager. A native Italian, Alessandro is no stranger to the game of basketball, but unfortunately injury now prevents him from taking to the court. Known as ‘AP’, he will be operating as lead Team Manager for the Women’s programme for 2024/25.
Korrie operates as our Team Manager leading on the Men’s programme for 2024/25. Korrie is known to many as the administrative force behind the Nottingham Wildcats youth and WBBL teams. She also has experience of Aspire Talent camps
Now that James is retired from teaching, he is looking forward to becoming more involved with GB Maxis as a Team Manager.Â
