Hernando Planells

Coach Hernando Planells enters his tenth season coaching basketball and during that time he has distinguished himself as one of the top trainers for basketball development and as an up and coming coach at the professional level. Coach Hernando has coached at the high school, college and professional ranks.

He has also choreographed sports action in movies, commercials and print-ads.

Hernando’s experience and background has also allowed him to serve as a basketball choreographer on movies and television for Mark Ellis and The Sports Studio (www.sportsstudio.net).

Some of his work includes the basketball scenes and the training of the actors on movies such as “Coach Carter” starring Samuel L. Jackson, “The Longest Yard” starring Adam Sandler, “Rebound” starring Martin Lawrence and Spider-Man 3 starring Tobey Mcguire and others.

His experience has also led him to work on commercials and print for the WNBA, Target and Nissay Insurance ( featuring Japanese Basketball superstar Yuta Tabuse)

His production work has also led him to train the athletes of “Extreme Dodgeball”, the highest rated show on the Game Show Network.

Coach “H” has also appeared on on SPIKE TV’s smash hit SLAMBALL as the head coach for the Bouncers . His three year run with the Bouncers saw them qualify for the playoffs while leading the league in scoring.

Besides his work in sports production Coach Hernando works with former NBA Head Coach Don Casey on basketball related projects including the extremely popular blog - http://templeofzones.blogspot.com