Staff

William Kelly

President/Commisioner

Phone866-608-1547

William Kelly founded the WBDA after his acquisition of the WBCBL in efforts to continue the success and history of the original women’s basketball development league. His vision was to rebrand the league by adding value and support to team owners and players by creating the best platform in the industry. William has a background in sales, marketing, finance, sports management and consulting, in addition to being a team owner. He is driven by his love for basketball, business savviness and passion to help progress women’s sports. He is ready to begin the next chapter of change by implementing the new structure and plans.

Darnell Hollis

Assistant Commissioner

Emailcommissioner.wbdapro@gmail.com

Darnell has a background in finance, 20 years in sales and management, 11 years of coaching basketball and two years as a team general manager. His focus will be on creating organizational structure to provide the best platform for teams in our industry. Darnell will also assist in putting plans in place to increase revenue for the association and our teams.

Phil Hamilton

Director of Legal Operations

Dr. Kevin Butler Ph.D.

Director of Pro Player Development & Scouting

Emailproplayer.wbdapro@gmail.com

Dr. Butler is a legend in the basketball development industry, with around 40 years of service and assisting roughly 200 plus professional players. He brings prior basketball operations experience within the NBA, ABA, CBA, IBL, NWBA, and USBL leagues respectively.

Dr. Butler will be responsible for providing player development camps and clinics designed to help individual players and teams improve in skill proficiency while assisting ownership groups in conducting annual team combines. He will take the lead in the development of the following: The All-Star Game, and Annual League Draft Combines. He will also facilitate all pro player combines designed to market our players to teams and leagues overseas. Dr. Butler is the Training Director with All-Star Basketball & Physical Education Academy in Charlotte, North Carolina, His website is: allstarbasketballtraining.webs.com

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Laschelle Brown

Director of Code & Ethics

Emailethics.wbdapro@gmail.com

Laschelle is a Navy veteran with experience as a manager, Executive in Sports and a team owner. She will focus on assisting teams to stay compliant by implementing rules and resources to create a strong platform of unity with our organizations.

Bernell Hooker

Director of Community Engagement

Emailcommunity.wbdapro@gmail.com

Bernell Hooker has received national awards for engaging girls and women to empower themselves through sports. Her goal is to do the same with the organization to give communities the best basketball experience. Bernell is also the Owner of the Milwaukee Aces and Founder/CEO of Images of Us (IOU) Sports Nonprofit Organization.

Kevin Smith

Director of Sales & Sponsorship

Emailsales.wbdapro@gmail.com

Mr. Smith has a background in business, marketing, finance and account management. His focus will be establishing long term partnerships to generate revenue and create opportunities that would allow the WBDA to continue being the largest and most successful Women’s basketball development organization.

Darryl Todd

Director of Officials

Emailofficials.wbdapro@gmail.com

Darryl has officiated in the NCAA, semi pro leagues and the WBCBL. He will focus on creating the platform and structure for our officials, assist with game rule changes and all officials scheduling.

Sandi Brown

Events Coordinator

Emailevents.wbdapro@gmail.com

Sandi has a background in business, finance, management, administration and public speaking. Her goal is to assist in organizing public events by providing presentation, content and resources to maximize all potential opportunities for our organizations.

Sandi is also the proud owner of the Toledo’s first women’s pro basketball team, the Toledo Threat.

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Toccara Tatum

Regional Overseer

Tocarra will be the liaison between the teams in her region and the commissioner.

Coach Toccara Tatum is beginning her first year as the Head Women’s Basketball Coach at Piedmont International University.

Education: Tatum, a graduate of Ferrum College in Ferrum, Virginia holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Marketing. She has also earned a MAS in Sports Management with a concentration in Athletic Administration from Southern New Hampshire University. Tatum also completed an internship at Wake Forest University as an Operations Intern under Coach Kendra Samuels - Eaton (UNC-Pembroke) in 2010.

Professional: Coach Tatum has 16 years of experience coaching girls’ basketball to include:

4 Years: Lexington Sr. High School (Head Varsity Girls Basketball Coach)
2 Years: Team NC Xpress Volunteer
6 Years: Winston Salem Lady Warcats (Associate Head Coach/ Director of Operations) 27-20 record with 2 National Playoff appearances in the Women’s Blue-Chip Basketball League (WBCBL)
1 Year: South Asheboro Middle School (Head Coach- the Lady Comets posted a 13-4 record, completing the season with a trip to the Randolph Middle School Tournament Championship under Tatum’s reign)
1 Year: Glenn High School (Head JV Girls Basketball Coach/ 10-9 Record)
+3 Months: Salem College (Assistant Volunteer Women’s Basketball Coach)
1 Year: Parkland High School (Head JV Girls Basketball Coach)
1 Year: North High School, North SC (Assistant Varsity Coach/ Head JV Girls’ Basketball Coach)

Collegiate: As a standout at Ferrum College, Tatum was a very distinguished player, receiving a host of awards, to include major awards such as WBCA Division III All American, 2005 NCAA Division III National Assist Leader, USA South Player of the Year and VaSID All-State Women’s Basketball First Team. In 2014, Tatum was named to the USA South 50th Anniversary Women's Basketball Team.

Semi-Pro: In 2005, Tatum was selected to play for the San Jose Spiders in the Women’s National Basketball League, but unfortunately the team/league folded prior to her first season. In 2006, she played for the Southern Legends out of Orangeburg, SC for 2 years before relocating to NC. In 2010 she founded the Lady Warcats in the Women’s Blue Chip Basketball League and played for the team for 2 years before becoming the Associate Head Coach/Director of Operations. Coach Tatum worked her way up the ranks and was named the Carolinas Regional Director from 2014 until 2016 and is currently the Atlantic Regional Director.

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Scott Ludwig

Media Relations

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