Beloit College

James Weber ‘09 played for Sun Prairie High School’s WBCA Hall of Fame member Coach Jeff Boos from 2003-05.  After graduating, he went on to play at Beloit College for Cecil Youngblood and Brian Vraney - scoring a career-high 24 points in his first start.  An internship with the WNBA’s Washington Mystics piqued an interest in coaching that has never gone away.  Weber’s first-year coaching was spent on Coach John Olson’s bench as an assistant for the JV Boys team while also helping assist varsity games on a 2009-10 squad led by a lanky freshman, Nick Fuller, who would go on to become the Big 8 Conference’s All-Time leading scorer.  At the end of the season, Weber was fortunate enough to have an opportunity to assist an absolutely stacked 16U Wisconsin Playground Warriors AAU team boasting a starting lineup of five future high-major NCAA Division 1 players – including future Wisconsin Badgers Bronson Koenig and Sam Dekker.  Weber parlayed that into a Graduate Assistant position at Carroll University under Head Coach Dave Buchanan.  During his three years at Carroll, the team appeared in two Midwest Conference Championship games – winning one, an NCAA tournament, winning an NCAA  first round game as well as securing the second and third most-winningest seasons in the program’s 100-plus year history.

After Carroll, Weber returned to Sun Prairie to assist with the 2013-14 varsity team while also head coaching a group of 7^th graders through the Sun Prairie YBA.  In addition, during this time he began to train a wide assortment of players individually including former Beloit College Buccaneers Rudy Bentley and Steve McAfee, Wisconsin Badger Taylor Wurtz and future Atlanta Hawk first-round draft pick Jalen Johnson. Following a slow start, the 2013-14 Sun Prairie High School team made a deep WIAA tournament run before falling to Mukwonago in a State Sectional Final.  After leading the varsity team to a 33-1 record over the summer, Weber returned to the YBA and led a team of 8^th graders – the core of which, as juniors and seniors, would be a part of the first Sun Prairie High School teams to reach the WIAA State Tournament.  Following a one-year hiatus, Weber spent the next three seasons coaching 7^th and 8^th grade basketball during the winter and AAU seasons for the Sun Prairie YBA and the Madison Spartans, respectively.  Weber spent last year as Freshman Basketball Coach with the Sun Prairie Boys Basketball Program leading the team to a 5-1 record in a COVID-shortened season.