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PARIS WORLD GAMES PHOTO DUMP! 📸
We went back to Paris for the 2026 PWG and it was awesome! Despite incredibly challenging circumstances, our U17 Boys finished with the BRONZE and our U15 Boys brought home the GOLD! 🥉🥇 Our group took in the views from the top of the Eiffel Tower, saw the Mona Lisa among many other works of art in the Louvre Museum and toured the Palace of Versailles! We can’t wait to go back next year! #GoForGold 🇺🇸🏀 #RepTheUSA #PhDHoopsUSA

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Summer of 2026 was a good one… #RepTheUSA #PhDHoopsUSA #GoForGold 🇺🇸🏀

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Proud of our Summer, 2026 teams! What a year for #PhDHoopsUSA!!! 🇺🇸🏀🏆

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*BREAKING NEWS! Our inside sources tell us that, due to recent developments, LeBron may choose #PhDHoopsUSA as the next destination for his 24th and likely final NBA season. The pendulum has swung and is sure to send shockwaves throughout NBA Free Agency. 🇺🇸🏀

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@phdhoops #basketball #parisworldgames

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Went to the heat just like Giannis
Paris World Games 🇫🇷 @phdhoops

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We’re proud of our U15 & U17 Boys Teams at the Paris World Games! Amidst a slew of adversity, including France’s historic heat wave which greatly altered the tournament’s planning, our players persevered thru it all! #PhDHoopsUSA 🇺🇸🏀🏆

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TODAY IS THE DAY! Please wish our 2 Boys Teams (U17 & U15) the BEST OF LUCK as they prepare to #GoForGold at the 2026 Paris World Games! 🛫🇺🇸🏀 #PhDHoopsUSA #Paris #France #ParisWorldGames

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IT’S TIME!! 🇺🇸🏀 Many of our ALUMNI Players & Coaches are ready for our 2026 Teams to #ContinueTheStandard and #GoForGold!!! #PhDHoopsUSA

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THEY DON'T PUT THIS IN THE JOB DESCRIPTION 😂🧺

We asked Coach Mike Apple, two time NJCAA National Champion and Athletic Director at Sandhills Community College, what duties he has as a coach that nobody talks about.

His answer?

Laundry.

Every. Single. Day. 😂

And not just any laundry, Coach Apple is separating the whites from the colors, making sure everything comes out right. Been doing it so long that his wife had NO idea how good he was at it until he told us on the podcast. She knows now, Coach. She knows now. 👀

But then he said something that stopped us in our tracks.

He sweeps the floor before EVERY practice.

Not because nobody else will do it. Not because it's in his contract. But because he wants his players to SEE that their head coach, a two time national champion, is just as bought into that practice as they are. Before a single basketball is touched. Before a single player walks through the door.

THAT is leadership. 🙏

No cameras. No highlights. No glory. Just a championship coach with a mop and a message.

This is the side of coaching at the small college level that nobody talks about. No big budgets. No army of staff. No one to hand things off to. You wash the clothes, you sweep the floor, you drive the bus, and then you go out and compete for a national title.

And Coach Apple has done all of it. Twice.

New episode is LIVE now — link in bio. Go listen and share this one with every coach you know. 🎙️🔥

@LifeOnTheRoadPodcast
@CoachAKSB

#LifeOnTheRoad #MikeApple #NJCAABasketball #JucoNation #CoachsJourney

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Great coaches don't just delegate. They develop.

In this episode of Life on the Road: A Coach's Journey, Coach Mike Apple of Sandhills Community College breaks down what it really takes to empower your assistant coaches and step back with confidence.

His formula is simple but powerful: train them first. Make sure they understand exactly what you want and are comfortable teaching it. Without that foundation, letting go is nearly impossible.

Coach Apple also shares the story of Larry Shields, a childhood friend turned assistant who committed to learning the system inside and out, teaching it exactly the way it was taught to him, and deferring to the head coach every single time. Even in the grocery store.

That's loyalty. That's trust. That's how staffs win together.

Full episode out now. Link in bio.

@LifeOnTheRoadPodcast hosted by @CoachAKSB

#LifeOnTheRoad #CoachingPodcast #BasketballCoach #Leadership #CollegeBasketball

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🚨 IT'S TUESDAY AND WE'RE DROPPING HEAT! 🚨

The new episode of Life on the Road: A Coach's Journey is LIVE and this one hits DIFFERENT. 🎙️🔥

Coach Mike Apple of Sandhills Community College has been quietly doing something SPECIAL in Pinehurst, North Carolina for over a decade and today the world gets to hear his story.

Think about this for a second…

He walked into a junior college program in 2011 and won a National Championship in his FIRST season. 🏆

Then he came back EIGHT YEARS LATER and did it AGAIN. 🏆🏆

Not once. Not by accident. TWICE.

500+ career wins. 5 Region X titles. 2x Coach of the Year. A home court record so dominant that opposing teams already know what's coming when they walk through that door.

But here's what makes Coach Apple truly special when you ask him what he's most proud of, he doesn't talk about the trophies.

He talks about the 35 young men who left Sandhills and went on to four-year colleges.
He talks about the kids who found direction when they had none.
He talks about what basketball is SUPPOSED to be.

This is the episode you send to every coach who thinks winning and developing people are two different things. They're not. Coach Apple has been proving that his entire career. 💯

🎧 Go listen NOW link in bio!

🎙️ @LifeOnTheRoadPodcast
📸 @CoachAKSB
🐦 @CoachAKSB

#LifeOnTheRoad #MikeApple #NJCAABasketball #JucoNation #CoachsJourney

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