2012 Metro Stars Coaching Staff
Mike joined the Metro Stars coaching staff in 2010 and will be the head coach of the Metro Stars Black team in 2012. After graduating from Hopkins High School and being named a Minnesota Mr. Basketball finalist in 1991. Coach Amos started his collegiate career at Creighton University in Omaha Nebraska. As a true freshman he started 25 of 28 games. He was Named to the Missouri Valley all freshman team as well as earned runner-up honors for Missouri Valley Freshman player of the year. After his sophomore year he transferred to the University of Washington in Seattle where he earned PAC-10 all newcomer honors as a junior. By his senior year he was named team captain and made an appearance in the NIT tournament. Amos graduated from University of Washington in 1996 and continued his playing career overseas playing professionally in Australia and Ireland.
Having returned from overseas Coach Amos began his coaching career in 1997 at North Dakota State College of Science as and assistant coach. After winning a regular season conference championship title, Coach Amos was asked to join the North Dakota State University staff in 1998. After placing fourth in the competitive North Central Conference, Coach Amos decided to return to his roots at Hopkins High School to rejoin his former coach and mentor Ken Novak Jr. As part of the Hopkins staff Amos has been apart of a number of conference and region championship teams. He has also been apart of 3 state titles. Coach Amos did take a head coaching position at Orono High School in 2005. His team went on to win the Metro Alliance Conference championship and an Academic Conference Championship honors. Coach Amos was also named Metro Alliance Conference Coach of the Year. However, its hard to stay away from home to long and coach Amos is currently on staff at Hopkins High School as head sophomore coach and varsity assistant.
Coach Amos is a special education teacher at Bloomington Jefferson High School. He and his wife Kara have two son Ryan 12 and Andrew 7.
Steve will be the head coach of the Metro Stars 15U team in 2012. Steve joined the Metro Stars coaching staff in 1999. Steve is one of the most decorated AAU coaches in the state having coached Metro Stars teams to three MN AAU State Championships as well as being named MN AAU Coach of the year after the 2004 & 2010 AAU seasons. His Metro Stars Black 2010 team went 35-7 and ended the season as the number one ranked team in Minnesota by GPrep and in the coverage area by Girls Basketball Recruit.
Steve has taken six Metro Stars teams to the AAU National Tournament as well as national exposure tournaments in Oregon, Illinois, Tennessee, Chicago, and South Dakota. While serving as the head girls basketball coach at Blaine High School, Steve lead the program to over 300 wins in his coaching career. Steve was inducted into the Minnesota Girls Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2007. He will serve as an assistant on the Bethel girls basketball coaching staff during the 2011-2012 season.
You will not find a more professional coach in the state of Minnesota than Steve Reiter.
Ellen will be head coach of the Metro Stars 14U Black team in 2012. Coach Wiese joined the Metro Stars coaching staff in the spring of 2008 and has been coaching AAU basketball since 2001. She has guided each of her Metro Stars teams to the MN AAU State Championship game. In 2011 her 13U Black squad won the Classic Bracket at the 13U AAU National Tourney in Orlando, FL.
Coach Wiese is the Varsity Girls' Basketball Coach at Orono High School. Previously she was the Assistant Varsity coach and Junior Varsity Coach at Maple Grove High School. She is an attorney with her own family law practice.
Shelly Soule
Shelly Soule will be the head coach of the Metro Stars 14U White team in 2012. Look for a coaching bio on Shelly soon!
Dave Stromme
Dave Stromme will be the head coach of the Metro Stars 13U team in 2012. For the past 6 years, Dave has served as the head women's basketball coach at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN. He is a 1983 graduate of St. Olaf prior to St. Olaf was the interim head women's coach at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, helping the Division II Bulldogs to a 15-14 record and trip to the NCC playoff semifinals.
Stromme spent four years at University of Minnesota helping the Golden Gophers to a 95-37 (.742) record and four trips to the NCAA Tournament including a Final Four appearance in 2003-04 and two Sweet Sixteen showings. His primary responsibilities with Minnesota were post players and defense. He also organized the scout team and helped recruiting efforts.
The 2006-07 stint at UMD was the second for Stromme, who was the top assistant for his older sister Karen for 17 seasons from 1985-02. In that time, the Bulldogs were 370-159 (.703) and advanced to 13 national tournaments - the NCAA's five times and the NAIA's eight times.
Stromme was also on staff with the Bulldog football program as assistant offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach from 1993-98 and taught a variety of courses in the physical education department.
Stromme is a native of Duluth, Minn. He and his wife Stephany have three children: Ella, Anja and Andrew.
Jamie (Broback) Waldo will be the head coach of the Metro Stars 12U team in 2012. Jamie started her Metro Stars career as a player for the 14U in 2000. As a player she was a part of many successful teams that placed high at some of the biggest national tournaments. Some of these include: 5th place at the End of the Oregon Trail, 3rd place at Nationals in Las Vegas and 1st place in the Nike Tournament in Chicago. This will be Jamie’s 2nd year as a head coach for Metro Stars. Prior to being a head coach she was an assistant for 3 years with various Metro Stars teams.
Jamie played High School Basketball at Eastview High School in Apple Valley where she was a 4 year letter winner. She was part of two different teams that went to the Minnesota 4A State Championship game. Some of Jamie’s individual accomplishments at Eastview were: Scoring over 1,000 points, All State, Miss Basketball Finalist and Honorable Mention High School McDonald’s All American.
Jamie played her collegiate basketball at the University of Minnesota, where was a 3 time letter winner. During her freshman year in 2004 she was a part of the Gophers team that went to the Final Four. Her individual awards include: All-Big Ten Honorable Mention (2005), Pre-Season Honorable Mention All-American (2006), 2nd Team All-Big Ten (2006), Big Ten Player of the Week, as well as scoring over 1,000 career points.
Jamie is going into her 5th season as the Assistant Varsity Girls’ basketball coach at Providence Academy. She has also been the girls Varsity soccer coach at Providence for 3 years.
Ray Finley
Ray Finley will serve as Metro Stars player personnel coordinator for the 2012 season. Ray was a founding member of the Minnesota Metro Stars Basketball Club and has coached teams Metro Stars team at all age levels of our program. Ray is one of the most successful high school coaches in the state winning state championships at both Blake and Breck. Ray is currently the varsity head coach at Providence Academy.