Nike National High School Basketball Director Tony Dorado

BallN Gems with Nike National High School Basketball Director Tony Dorado on how NIKE has been ahead of fighting for todays social injustice, growing women’s basketball, The Last Dance and more. Tony has worked at Nike, Inc in Beaverton, OR for the past 25 years as the Nationa lManager of High School Basketball overseeing all the sponsorships and relationships of the country’s top high school basketball programs and tournaments. Prior to joining Nike, he was a head basketball coach for 11 years at high schools in California and Oregon. As a coach, Tony left Moreau Catholic High School in Hayward, California as the winningest boys’ basketball coach in the school’s history and was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame in 2015. Tony has been a featured speaker at basketball camps in the U.S. as well as camps in Spain, Italy, Belgium, Japan and Mozambique. In addition to his day job, in 2003 he founded Lay-Ups, a non-competitive, introductory basketball league for K-2nd graders. For the past 17 years, Lay-Ups has provided an opportunity for over 15,000 kids to learn the game while exercising and having fun.