Wayne Dawkins Interview – Burundi P.H.A.S.E. 1 Academy Mission.
It has always been my plan to go to Africa but I never imagined my first trip would be to
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Experiencing Pro Ball in Burundi, Africa. – Wayne Dawkins
What an incredible feeling experiencing professional basketball in Africa. The passion for the game despite the lack of infrastructure and
Read moreInternational Women’s Day – The All Canada Classic-Rumble Girls Legacy 2004-2012
Happy Women’s Day! These young women represented in P.H.A.S.E. 1’s All Canada Classic-Rumble in the T-Dot national all-star game as
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Podcast – Who Is In Your Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame (Simeon Mars, Hayton Morrison, Nicole Pennie, Harry Baird and Wayne Dawkins)
Who Is In Your Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame? – Simeon Mars, Hayton Morrison, Nicole Pennie and Harry Baird, pioneers who witnessed the rise of basketball in Canada, enlighten Wayne Dawkins on the true origins of elite level basketball North of the U.S. border. Collectively the panel gives their unanimous choices for builders, trailblazers, events and milestones that changed the game at different stages and inspired others to take the game to the levels we see today.
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Canadian Basketball Black History – Stories of the Omitted
Black History triggered my story writing because when it comes around the mainstream channels begin to put the usual handful of stories into circulation. I appreciate the efforts but it always left me wondering who inspired that person to do great things? Was there other trailblazers that prepared the way or do we just know who made the first footprint? What about the underlying stories NOT told of people and events that influenced the great legacies that we hear about today.
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2021 P.H.A.S.E. 1 Journey Awards – Prt. 1
Celebrating outside of our immediate circle isn’t easy to do but it is truly one of the greatest ways to
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My Black History – Wayne Dawkins
My Black History:Wayne Dawkins – Social Entrepreneur In light of Black History (and getting old, lol). I decided it’s important
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Natasha Ming – Yoga for Youth Wellness
As everything in the world is put on pause because of the Covid-19 Pandemic the emotional and social development of our children have been put on pause as well. The competing stressors and responsibilities parents face may have resulted in reduced attention to the psychological and emotional needs of their children.
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Pt. 1 – 2010 All Canada Classic-Rumble – 10th Anniversary – The 2010 Posters
On Monday, June 14th, 2010, 40 talented young athletes will got the amazing opportunity to play on the very same
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P.H.A.S.E. 1 Academy – 10th Anniversary of the 1st Canada/U.S.A. Prep Program
It’s 2020 and year round basketball focused prep schools are popping up in every province across Canada. Many people are
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The NPSAA – Canada’s First Prep League
In 2010 approximately 100 of Canada’s top high schooler ballers were in prep or high school basketball programs in the
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Ashton Smith – The Rise Out of the Shadows
Ashton Smith – Mini BioMr. All Decade, Former Raptor905, West Hill CI Alumni… At West Hill CI the hardest workers
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Jamaica Basketball – 24 for 24 Discussing the Road to the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France
Ashton Intro – 0:02 Wayne Dawkins Explains Involvement – 0:51 Akeem Scott – 6:09 Dave Black – 23:10 Nathaniel Mitchell
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Wayne Dawkins – A Personal Interview on Basketball and Life
Wayne Dawkins is a Canadian basketball coaching pioneer. Immigrating from Jamaica as a young child before settling in Alberta and then moving to Toronto and being recruited by Eastern Michigan. Over his life, he’s helped 100s of young men and women receive scholarships and has built a school for young children in his home country of Jamaica. We thank him immensely for sitting down with us at The Jaleel Sobers Show.
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Wayne Dawkins, The Home Team’s Toronto Raptor
10 years ago, inspired by my work in the community, Canada’s #1 children’s author Eric Walters collaborated with Johnnie Williams
Read more2001 Min-Documentary – From Wayne Dawkins to P.H.A.S.E. 1 Youth Association
Kingdom Community Projects As we prepare to launch our upcoming Kingdom Community Projects, we would like to share a mini-documentary
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Wumi Agunbiade: On A Mission To Inspire
In many cultures, it’s believed that a name connects you to your past and can predict your future. For Wumi Agunbiade (given name Omawumi), the latter would seem to be the case. The name ‘Omawumi’ literally translates to ‘a lover of children’, and what better name could there be for a woman who spends her life enlightening and empowering young women?
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Charles Kissi – Sauce for Coaching Success
When I had initially wrote about Charles Kissi success as a coach it was before he turned pro and he was working tirelessly preparing himself by redefining the Brock University men’s basketball team for five seasons. At one point leading them to a 31-win season and a birth in the U-Sport Final 8 national tournament.
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NCAA Dreams from North of the Border
Things were very different for a young Canadian baller trying to get to the NCAA in the 80’s and early 90’s. This was just before things began to erupt into what we see today. The path to the NCAA dream did not come with the proven roadmap that exists now and hoards of successful basketball peers to guide the way.
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Cordell “Bobby” Llewellyn – Canadian Basketball Gladiator – Part 1
Bobby defined our era of basketball. How we were taught to play by our peers, dictated by the tough, no- blood-no-foul style being played in the NBA. It was a time of psychological and physical basketball warfare.
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Stephany Skrba – Canadian Basketball Wonder Woman
Serena Williams triumphant return to the upper echelon of professional tennis after having her daughter had us all in awe. It also reminded me of the responsibility to provide girls and boys with as many strong female role models as possible, in order to assist in bringing equality to women in sports.
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Chenel Harris – NCAA Women’s Coaching Inspiration
Despite only being 28 years old Chenel’s has seen many of her peers leave collegiate coaching and pursue alternative careers. Chenel has set herself apart because she has managed to find balance within the unbalance of coaching at such a demanding level.
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Mckenzie Sigurdson – Journey to the Air Canada Centre
As a trainer you know not every child possess the same athletic gifts, some are blessed with quickness, some natural strength and some leaping ability. Mckenzie has many gifts but her great hand eye coordination and a natural feel for the ball in her hand separated her from her peers.
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2019 P.H.A.S.E. 1 All Canada Classic Alumni Charity Game
P.H.A.S.E. 1 is inviting you to support the 2019 All Canada Classic Alumni Charity Game on August 11, 2019 (11am Women’s
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Black History – 20th Anniversary of Canada’s 1st National High School All Star Basketball Event
The All Canada Classic (a.k.a. the Rumble in the T-Dot) National High School All-Star Basketball Celebration run by P.H.A.S.E. 1 still stands as Canada’s 1st and longest run national high school all-star game. From 2001-2012, the All Canada Classic consistently featured the biggest names in Canadian boy’s and girl’s high school basketball under the same roof
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My Testimonial About Philip Dixon
At that moment I turned on the television to TSN and my life would change for ever. The broadcasters were talking about Toronto’s Metro All Star Basketball Game and the dunk competition was being being aired. The favorite in the competition was Philip Dixon from Bathurst Heights CI and he was in a heated battle with Everton Shakespeare from George Harvey CI, Wayne ‘Fridge” Robinson from Runnymede CI, and few more Toronto’s high school skywalkers.
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Part 4 – The Implosion Before the Explosion of Canadian Basketball
The team representing Canada was made up of players from Jane & Finch, Rexdale, Regent Park and Jungle as well as a few ballers from Markham and Southern Ontario. These fearless warriors, who had never been further than the east coast of North America, battled for Canada winning the silver medal. They defeated both the Argentinian and Polish National Teams before losing a close battle to a U.S.A. Jr. National Team lead by Carmelo Anthony, Sheldon Williams, Juwad Williams and 4 other high school All Americans.
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Part 2 – The Implosion Before the Explosion of Canadian Basketball
The original Canadian AAU basketball founders and alumni have since been responsible for constructing a clear pipeline for Canadian basketball talent to flood into the United States prep, college and professional ranks. Resulting in over a billion dollars flowing directly back to Canadian families and communities.
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Part 1 – The Implosion Before the Explosion of Canadian Basketball
The groundswell of energy from the older generation of Canadian basketball pioneers and long time Toronto Raptors fans is a byproduct of being forced into a forbidden love affair with basketball because hockey was the bride chosen for us.
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Women’s Pro Basketball Pioneers… Toronto Lady Elite 1’s
I am very proud of the group of talented women out of Toronto Canada, who accepted the challenge of becoming
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Canada Basketball FIBA Qualifiers – P.H.A.S.E. 1 Alumni
It has been 7yrs since P.H.A.S.E.1 ran a basketball program in Canada but we are extremely proud that 25 of
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Paul Coleman – Toronto’s Master Barber to NBA Stars
Coming from another country to a big city is a challenge for most people. For the Raptor players many of them had never even been to Canada before. They would have to figuring out not only their new team but everyday life in Toronto as well. Knowing this I was convinced I would soon start seeing our local NBA stars on our hottest barber strip, Eglinton West, for a crash course on Toronto culture.
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Duke vs EMU – 7ft Boubacar Toure “the Underdog”
According to the dominant consensus, to call Eastern Michigan University Men’s Basketball Team the “underdogs” against the mighty Duke Blue Devil’s on Wednesday November 14, 2019 would be an understatement.
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P.H.A.S.E. 1 Adaptive Physical Education
Our work began in August 2014 in Mesa, Arizona at Pathways School for special needs children, when we were challenged with creating our first adaptive physical education program.
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The Rising Stars Showcase – All Canada Classic – Part 2
The Rising Stars Showcase for middle school and high school underclassmen boys and girls was introduced in 2002 and as a key component of the All Canada Classic, it identified and rallied around the young players who would become the future of Canadian basketball.
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Maurice Kirby – 6’9″ Sr. Gets a New Start
“P.H.A.S.E. 1’s “Athlete of the Week” race has heated up with all our athletes responding extremely well to the level of
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Jerome Robinson – A Canadian Basketball Crown Jewel
Like so many of the top ballers in Malton at the time, Jerome’s family came from Jane and Finch in hopes of finding a better place to raise their children. That migration brought together an amazing talent pool of young ballers equipped with the hunger of “the hood” and filled with the passion to become great.
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Ryan Berg – Rebuilding a Beast
Conference Freshman and Player of Year, Ryan Berg Ready to Return to the PacWest at California State San Marcos University! Ryan’s
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Andrew Hunter – Canadian Basketball Ambassador
Andrew Hunter former Greater Toronto Area (GTA) All Star from Jean Vanier Catholic High School, in Scarborough, Ontario, had the honor, very few players get, representing Canada in 40 different countries over a span of a 10 year professional career.
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West Hill C.I. – A Decade of Distinguished Gentlemen
Thank you to all the teachers and administration at West Hill for the commitment to the success of these student athletes. A culture of excellence is not by accident but by design and together we can be proud of the legacy that was created.
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Emerson Jay Murray Turning Misfortune to Inspiration
The last time Emerson Jay Murray from Vancouver, Canada and I crossed paths he was a part of the greatest assembly of high school talent in Canadian Basketball history.
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Marco Morales – Summer Goals, Season Results
Marco came to P.H.A.S.E. 1’s training facility in Mesa, Arizona this past summer wanting to put on 20 pounds for the start of his sophomore season at Phoenix Community College in downtown Phoenix.
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Chris Kraus – 1st Men’s Canadian NCAA Basketball Head Coach
Chris could have easily become complacent in his early journey to becoming the 1st Canadian head coach of a men’s NCAA team.
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Denham Brown – Pioneer at a Price, Part 1
A year later after seeing Denham’s picture in the newspaper as a Toronto Star All-Star, wearing the Kobe’s and being guarded by Toronto Raptors Tracy McGrady, Nike Canada unloaded enough product on us to clothe a small community, not to mention the exclusive Air Jordan’s that used to mysteriously appear in my garage for him.
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Keeping My EYE on the Prize!
There were so many things running through my mind; would I go blind? Would I be able to continue to play sports? Was my football career over? I had just come back from an illness that had me home in Canada for period of time and was making my return to football and now this happens.
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Mark Stoddart – Graphic Artist Legend
From an early age he understood that people easily identified with popular logos and symbols used as trademarks. Whether it is an association like the NBA (who’s logo is the silhouette of Basketball Hall of Famer Jerry West), or a company like Nike, people identify with a brand on their chest. That symbol essentially becomes a representation of their persona. To him, that was a powerful idea.
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Alice Davis “The Mad Stepper”
It’s that camaraderie that allowed Alice and the rest of the team to spearhead the fundraising initiative to pay for the backboard shattered by Tristan Martin in the 2003 All Canada Classic – Dunk Contest at the Centennial College, Scarborough ON.
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Who’s In Your Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame
As leader of my organization my responsibility is to the history of our thousands of alumni. I do hope many of P.H.A.S.E. 1’s alumni will be included in Basketball Canada’s one day however until then, these stories about our Elite 1’s will hold their place in history.
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Jevohn “J-Shep” Shepherd
Canadian basketball fans will always appreciate Vince Carter as the most popular “Air Canada” anyone knows. But for many of us Canadians on the ball scene, we had an actual Canadian “Air Canada” years before.
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Dane Smith Mr.”We The North”
Though Smith says he was naturally talented at both sports, he remembers watching the older kids on the basketball courts around his neighborhood for months. But he built up the courage and was able to join into the games and eventually hold is own.
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