Athletic Director and Girls Varsity Basketball Coach at the Noble and Greenough School

A graduate of Nobles in 1990, Alex Gallagher has a passion for the game of basketball coupled with a devotion to those he coaches. Gallagher has led the Nobles Girls Basketball Program to 13 ISL championships in 15 years while compiling an overall career record of 402-97. He also comes off the 2016 season having led his team to their 5th consecutive New England Class A Title. Before coming to Nobles, Gallagher coached the Weston Boys Basketball Team to two Dual County League championships, two North Sectional Championships, and one State Championship in 1998. He was honored in 1998 by the Boston Globe as the Massachusetts Coach of the year for his title-winning team. 

Gallagher has served as the Athletic Director at Nobles for the past seven years. He graduated from Nobles in 1990 and returned to work at his alma mater in the 2000/2001 school year. Gallagher also teaches history and was the Varsity Baseball coach at Nobles from 2004 - 2010. In the spring of 2016, Gallagher led a group of 19 Nobles students to Rwanda where they served the Shooting Touch communities. 

Owner, Abelard Psychotherapy Inc.

Dr. Abelard is an advanced practice nurse with over 22 years of experience in mental health nursing including academia and clinical practice. Dr. Abelard consults and provides trainings to hospitals, colleges, and organizations on a variety of topics including suicide awareness, integrative health, team building, restraint reduction, Myers Briggs, mental health, tele- mental health, and cultural awareness.

As the director and owner of Abelard Psychotherapy Inc. (APA), a group psychotherapy practice located in Stoughton and Dedham Ma., Dr. Abelard serves diverse clients across the lifespan. APA has been in business since 2007 and is an established and well-respected group psychotherapy practice with over 2500 clients in the South East Region of Massachusetts. Clients consist of individuals across the lifespan with a diversity of professional, cultural, and developmental backgrounds.

Dr. Abelard received her Integrative Health Certificate training, Post- Masters and Doctorate degree from Regis College, and received her Bachelors and Master’s degrees from the College of Nursing at UMASS Amherst.

Head Coach of Harvard Women’s Basketball Team

Kathy is the winningest head coach in Ivy League history, head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith enters her 36th season with Harvard basketball in 2017-18. Delaney-Smith has put Harvard basketball on the map and expanded its reach both nationally and internationally as one of the longest tenured coaches in collegiate women’s basketball.

Delaney–Smith grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, one of six children. She attended Sacred Heart high school, but the school had no gym classes so she picked up her basketball skills playing on basketball courts across the street from where she lived. She played on the basketball team in high school and became the first female in Massachusetts basketball history to score 1000 points.

Delaney-Smith resides in Newton, Mass.. Her son, Jared, is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and currently works for Credit Suisse in New York City.

Vice President, Player Development & Organizational Growth at Boston Celtics

Prior to joining the Celtics, Feaster spent three years with the National Basketball Association, where she most recently served as Player Personnel & Coach Relations Lead for the NBA G League. A 10-year WNBA veteran, Feaster enjoyed a successful 17-year professional playing career and competed in European leagues in Spain, France, Italy, and Portugal.

Feaster holds an MBA from Universidad Europea de Madrid and a BA in Economics from Harvard College. While at Harvard, she was the first athlete in any sport to be honored as Ivy League Player of the Year three times and was also named Ivy League Rookie of the Year. As a senior, Feaster and her Harvard teammates became the first No. 16 seed in the history of the NCAA DI basketball tournament to defeat a No. 1 seed when the Crimson upset Stanford, 71-67.

Beyond the court, Feaster has always taken great pride in using her platform in professional sports to promote the many values gained through sports and competition. This includes service as an ambassador for the NBA across the globe, and as a Sports Envoy in several countries for the U.S. Department of State´s SportsUnited sports diplomacy program. Feaster also champions the advancement of women and girls around the world and has collaborated on numerous initiatives geared towards women’s and girls’ empowerment.

CEO of Kraft Analytics Group

Jessica Gelman is the CEO of Kraft Analytics Group (KAGR), a technology and services company focused on data management, advanced analytics and strategic consulting in the sports and entertainment industry. During a 15-year evolution that began with Kraft Sports & Entertainment (New England Patriots, Gillette Stadium, New England Revolution), Gelman built a team and technology that transformed the business through analytics and continues to power the business side of Kraft Sports & Entertainment. KAGR provides leading organizations the ability to collect and understand their data across all platforms, while providing the infrastructure to create their own data-driven strategies.

President & CEO at ISlide

Justin Kittredge is the Co - Founder of Shooting Touch, Inc. and chimes in on the operations and development of the organization when he is not busy (which is never) running his new footwear startup, ISlide, Inc. Justin's incredible vision for Shooting Touch has been the founding and driving force behind its fast moving growth here in Boston and overseas. Justin's energy and passion for Shooting Touch is incredible and felt by all who come before him.

Justin spent the past 15 years working in the athletic footwear industry, most recently as the Director of the Basketball Product Division at Reebok. Justin and his team worked to create, market and sell NBA basketball shoes throughout the United States and abroad. In January, 2013 Justin left Reebok to start his own footwear company called ISlide, Inc. which manufactures, markets and sells premium custom athletic sandals. The company having launched in August of 2013 is already garnering the attention and support of big and small box retailers around the country.

Justin was the Guinness World Records™ holder for the most completed basketball free throws in two minutes in 2010. By completing 64 free throws in 120 seconds, averaging a basket every 1.875 seconds, Justin beat the previously held record of 60 shots by Olympic silver medalist and basketball star, Laurent Sciarra, of Paris, France. He also holds the record for most completed blind folded free throws in two minutes and is in the process currently of getting a new record approved.

Justin is a graduate from Northfield Mt. Hermon School and James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia and proud husband and father of two wonderful little girls.

President of TD Garden

In September 2012, Amy Latimer was promoted to President of the TD Garden. As President, Latimer is responsible for all day-to-day operating functions of the arena, one of the most active, highly regarded and successful sports and entertainment venues in North America. With almost two decades of knowledge and experience in the sports and arena industry, Latimer continues to champion the TD Garden as an industry innovator, overseeing the areas of premium service, fan experience and overall revenue generation.

For six seasons as Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Latimer was responsible for developing and leading all sales and marketing strategies for the Boston Bruins and TD Garden. This included the advertising, corporate partnerships, community relations, tickets sales, and Premium Club sales and service. A recognized leader in the sports & Arena industry, she was name one of Sports Business Journal's 'Game Changers' in 2011.

Latimer was part of the inaugural executive team at the TD Garden and started as the Director of Marketing in 1995. She went on to launch the arena's e-Business department, harnessing website strategies and database marketing. She served as the Director of e-Business and then Vice President of Ticketing and then the Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for both the Boston Bruins and the arena before assuming her current position.

The native of Ellicott City, MD received her degree in Political Science from the University of Rhode Island, which she attended on a full basketball scholarship. Latimer also took political management courses at George Washington University and worked for Empower America while living in Washington, D.C. She currently resided in Topsfield, Massachusetts with her husband Jody and their three sons.

Former Journalist and Commentator at ESPN

Jackie MacMullan is a freelance sportswriter and NBA columnist for ESPN.com. In 1982, she joined The Boston Globe, serving as a columnist and associate editor until March 2008. From 1995 to 2000, her work with Sports Illustrated included NBA coverage as a senior writer. From 1996 to 1999, she became a regular contributor to CNN/SI, the 24-hour news network

In 1999, MacMullan worked with Larry Bird on his autobiography, "Bird Watching: on Playing and Coaching the Game I Love." In 2006 she released "Geno: In Pursuit of Perfection" with Geno Auriemma. MacMullan has been a correspondent for several cable television networks such as ESPN, CNNSI, Comcast Sports, and WHDH-TV in Boston. She is also a regular contestant – not to mention the only female, on the ESPN program "Around the Horn."

On May 12, 2010, Jackie MacMullan and longtime Cleveland Cavaliers radio play-by-play announcer Joe Tait received the Curt Gowdy Media Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The awards are presented annually to members of the print and electronic media who made a significant contribution to the game of basketball. MacMullan was the first woman to receive the honor in its 21-year history.

Director of Nursing, Partners In Health

Cory joins Shooting Touch as the current Director of Nursing for public health giant Partners in Health. Having lived in Rwanda for a number of years and currently playing a huge role in PIH's rollout of their University of Global Health Equity, Cory's knowledge of the Rwandan public health landscape is not to be rivaled.

Cory is a Registered Nurse also practicing at Boston's Mass General hospital and will be pursuing her PhD in Nursing from Regis College in 2018.

Head Coach of University of Wisconsin–Madison Women's Basketball Team

Marisa Moseley spent the past three seasons as the head coach at Boston University, her alma mater, where she guided the women’s basketball program to a 45-29 overall record. Moseley was named the Patriot League Coach of the Year after her first BU team finished fourth in 2018-19 after being chosen in the preseason to finish ninth. During the COVID19-influenced 2020-21 season, she led her team to a 12-3 finish and a spot in the conference tournament championship game.

Prior to Boston University, Moseley coached three national players of the year and 11 All-Americans while assisting UConn to a 331-14 record and two of the longest winning streaks in NCAA basketball history (111 and 90 consecutive games). In addition to her coaching duties, Moseley served as a member of the University of Connecticut Diversity Council and was on director of athletics David Benedict's Leadership Team. Furthermore, she was a member of the Student-Athlete Development Diversity Committee and was the athletics department's liaison to the Office of Diversity.

Associate Director of Admissions & Multicultural Outreach at Phillips Exeter Academy

Mbakwe Okafor is Associate Director of Admissions & Multicultural Outreach at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH. Formerly he was the Coordinator of Multicultural Recruitment at The Fessenden School in West Newton. A founding board member of the Massachusetts Charter School Athletic Organization (MCSAO). Mbakwe spent nine years at Codman Academy Charter Public School; during his tenure as Wellness Director, the program received the 2011 Gold-Level MA School Wellness Award from the MA Departments of Elementary and Secondary Education and Public Health. In May 2012, Mbakwe was named by The Boston Globe as one of the Globe 100, which recognizes the top innovators in MA. Mbakwe received his Bachelor of Arts in English at The College of the Holy Cross and Masters in Sports Leadership from Northeastern University. He attended the Berkshire School as a postgraduate before earning a basketball scholarship to Holy Cross. Mbakwe lives in Easton, MA, with his wife, Guerlande, and two sons, Ikenna and Ethan, and in his free time enjoys reading to his sons and playing basketball with family and friends.

Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates

Dr. Vadnais received her medical degree from the University of Vermont and her MPH from Harvard University. She completed her obstetrics and gynecology residency and maternal fetal medicine fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Vadnais is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and maternal fetal medicine.

Dr. Vadnais comes to Shooting Touch as an advisor on the organization's health education curriculum here in Boston and overseas in Africa. We know the resources that she will bring to the organization will only help propel its impact in bringing vital health education to under-resourced youth around the world through the power of sport.

NBA Player at the Boston Celtics & Vice President of the NBPA

A beloved player for the Boston Celtics and a leading advocate for women’s equality in sport, Grant is a perfect addition to this incredible group of altruistic minds, eager to advance Shooting Touch’s mission of health, racial, and gender justice through the game of basketball. Prior to Grant joining the Boston Celtics, he was a standout player and person at the University of Tennessee where he received back-to-back SEC Player of the Year awards (2017-2018, 2018-2019) as a member of the men's basketball team and took part in the university's VOLeaders Academy, a group of student-athletes working to create positive change through sport.

Grant is a known leader within the NBA, serving as the Vice President of the National Basketball Players Association and is an active participant in local community service opportunities.

Grant is from Charlotte, North Carolina and was drafted 22nd overall in the 2019 NBA draft.