2011 Metro Stars Coaching Staff
Steve will be the head coach of the Metro Stars Black team in 2011. 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. Steve is the head girls varsity coach at Blaine High School where he has over 300 wins in his coaching career. Steve was inducted into the Minnesota Girls Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2007.
You will not find a more professional coach in the state of Minnesota than Steve Reiter.
Mike joined the Metro Stars coaching staff in 2010 and will be the head coach of the Metro Stars 15U team in 2011. 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.
Jamie (Broback) Waldo will be the head coach of the Metro Stars 14U team in 2011. 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 4th season as the Assistant Varsity Girls’ basketball coach at Providence Academy. She has also been the girls Varsity soccer coach at Providence for 2 years.
Ellen will be head coach of the Metro Stars 13U team in 2011. Coach Wiese joined the Metro Stars coaching staff in the spring of 2008 and has been coaching AAU basketball since 2001. In 2010 she lead her 12U team to a second place finish in the state championship and eighth place finish in the classic bracket at Nationals.
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.
Carl joined the Metro Stars coaching staff in the spring of 2005 and has coached the 12U, 15U, and 16U age levels. Carl has led multiple Metro Stars teams to 30 win seasons and the teams he has coached have been named "most dangerous second team in a program" and "most improved over the course of a season" by Kevin Anderson of Girls Basketball Recruit.
His most recent high school coaching experiences were as the Eagan HS Girls' varsity head coach as well as an assistant coach with the Eastview HS Boys' varsity program. Prior to this, Carl coached for six years in the Hopkins Girls' Basketball program. He got his start in 1999 with the Hopkins traveling program, winning a State Championship with his 8th Grade-A team in 2001. He coached for four seasons as an assistant girls' varsity coach as well as head coach of the sophomore team at Hopkins HS. During that time, the Hopkins varsity team had two consecutive 3rd place state tourney finishes (2002 & 2003), won the 2004 AAAA State Championship and captured a 2nd place finish in 2005.
Carl works as a Senior Consultant for the San Francisco based McKesson Corporation. He and his wife Kellie have 2 sons, Caden and Kenji.