Illinois Elite Basketball Club: Welcome

Illinois Elite Basketball is an AAU Basketball program for young ladies who aspire to play basketball on the collegiate level. Illinois Elite prides itself on its highly qualified coaching staff which includes former WNBA players and many former All American Collegiate players.

Tom Hohenadel is our Founder and Head Coach. He has coached our 17U National team to over 900 wins and three national championships in twenty plus years of coaching. Tom recruits only the finest players in the midwest to join our Elite teams. His list of Division I and Division II players who have received college scholarships to play basketball is quite impressive.

David Yates brings years of experience including the last 6 seasons as the successful Head Girls Varsity Coach at Fremd High School in Palatine, IL where he was named MSL Coach of the Year for the 2009-2010 and 2012-2013 seasons. He also coached his team to the 2010-2011 and 2012-2013 IHSA Regional Championships.

Tracy Summers joins us after spending the last eight seasons coaching in the college ranks. She brings extensive expertise in college recruiting and individual skill training. Most recently, she was the Associate Head Coach at Lewis University with additional stops at DePaul University and Davenport University. Her teams won three conference championships and made four national tournaments. A graduate of Lewis University, Summers finished her playing career ranked among Lewis's all-time leaders in career scoring, three-point field goals, three-point field goal percentage and free throw percentage. Also, she ranked #2 in the nation in three-point field goal percentage her senior year.

Kimrossi Taylor is our ball handling and shooting coach and is recommended by the WNBA if someone inquires who is the best ball handling coach in Illinois. His experience includes coaching at Bolingbrook High School and creating the Kimrossi Taylor basketball camp.

Samantha Rinehart will round out our coaching staff for the 2013 season. The Marian, Iowa native was named All-State, All-Metro, All-Conference and All-district coming out of High School. She continued her playing career at Lewis University where she was a three-year starter and guided the Flyers to a Great Lakes Valley Conference Championship in 2010. She was named GLVC Conference player of the week her senior year. She has been All-Academic all 4 years while double majoring in Biology and Chemistry.

Illinois Elite Basketball Club is first and foremost a teaching academy.  Our practices are intense, collegiate style training with an emphasis on individual skill development.