Champions Clinics are where champions are! Champions providing basketball camps, clinics, and motivational speeches, building champions in the youth being served. Through an entertaining and educational, interaction full of physical fitness, children improve their basketball skill-level and learn specific values that are indicative to champions, winners, and leaders. Champions Clinics seeks to establish a genuine relationship and identity within the community. In an environment where superstars are often falling stars, Champions Clinics breaks the mold by providing college educated role models that have made it their life’s work to give back to the community.

Bridget Pettis is the daughter of Cherrel, and Donald Williams and sister to seven brothers and sisters. Born in East Chicago, IN she attended East Chicago Central High School where she became a three time All-American. Bridget was also selected on the Indiana All-state first team her junior and senior year. She became the first girl in her high school to be placed on the Indiana All-Star team. She also became youngest player selected on the Olympic Festival team that won the Gold medal.

Bridget received a full athletic scholarship to Central Arizona College for two years where she became a freshman and sophomore junior college Kodak All-American. She then went on to receive a full athletic Scholarship at the University of Florida to complete her degree in education and finish her last two years of eligibility. Bridget was named on the All-SEC team her senior year as well as second team All-America.

1992 began her 14-year professional basketball career. She began playing her first three years in Istanbul,Turkey for Fenerbache, one of the top teams in the country, were she was named to the All-Star team 3 years in a row, and lead the League in scoring her first two years. She then played ten years in Italy, on two different teams.  She spent a year in Faenza, then 9 years in a place Bridget now considers her second home, Chieti, Italy. She was selected as an Italian Star Team all 10 years and lead the league in scoring for seven years. In 2001 Bridget was named player of the year in the Italian League. She became the first American female player to play for the same team in the Italian league and also the first American to become captain to a team in Italy. Her last year of European Basketball was played in Vigo, Spain.

In 1996 she was selected by the Phoenix Mercury in the second elite group, first pick, first round. In 1997, the inaugural season of the WNBA, Bridget scored the very first basket for the Phoenix Mercury. She also helped lead the team to a Western Conference Championship. She is also in the history books for being the first WNBA free throw champion leading the league with shooting over 85% from the line. She was also team co-captain for 5 years. 

Bridget also played 2 years with the Indiana Fever, where she helped the team in its first playoff birth. She then returned home to the Phoenix Mercury for her last year in the WNBA as a player. Upon retiring, she was immediately named an assistant coach. In her second year as a coach she helped lead the Phoenix Mercury to win the 2007 WNBA Championship.

A world championship being won by the Phoenix Mercury while in Detroit after 14 years of overseas hoops is a long way from the inner city. Bridget is very thankful for her opportunities to live her dream and do what she loves. It took a lot of hard work and commitment and focus for all this to happen. Now her dreams include giving back to the community and helping young kids and adults alike, realize that their dreams and goals are reachable as well.

Olympia Ranee Scott was born the day of the closing ceremonies of the Montreal Summer Olympics, hence the name. She is the daughter of Stephan T. Scott, MBA and Jacqueline Parker Scott, Ed.D, MBA, proud mother of BreAzia Richardson, her only child and engaged to Indianapolis native, Rachman Crable. A native of Los Angeles, Olympia attended St. Bernard High School where she participated in a variety of activities especially basketball, track and field, and student government. She was a 4-year starter for her high school basketball team. She led her team to her school's first girl's CIF Championship and back-to-back State Championships her junior and senior years. She set various high school records including recording 39 rebounds in a single game and triple-jumping 37 feet. Olympia was named to the California All-State team. She was also recognized as the Division IV California State Player of the Year and named a Kodak All-American. She also received the Cheryl Miller award for being the best player in Southern California. Olympia was the youngest player ever to play in an Olympic Festival for a team sport in 1994 where she also set the single-game shot-block record of 4.

Olympia received an athletic scholarship to Stanford University where she earned a BA degree in sociology and was a 4 year starter for the team as well. She led her team to 4 Pac-10 conference championships with back-to-back undefeated in conference seasons. She also helped her team to 3 NCAA Final Four Appearances in her four years. During her tenure as a Cardinal she received various accolades including Kodak All-American, All-Pac-10 conference, and was a finalist for the Naismith Player of the Year Award. In 1998, she graduated from Stanford and was picked 11th overall in the 1998 WNBA draft.

Since then, she has played on 6 different teams for a total of 10 seasons. She played her most statistically productive seasons in Indiana for the Fever, where she also played alongside of Bridget Pettis. She was the first player to grab 300 rebounds in a Fever uniform along with being the previous record-holder for most rebounds in a single-game with 17. She also had a career high in points with 31 vs. the Utah Starzz in 2002. Her most significant professional accomplishments are her two championships including the 2005 WNBA Championship  with Sacramento Monarchs and the 2007 WNBA Championship she won with her current team the Phoenix Mercury. She is first player in WNBA history to win 2 championships with 2 different teams.

In her off-seasons, Olympia plays professional basketball overseas in various European countries. She has played in Greece, Italy, Turkey, Spain, and Russia for a total of 9 years. Her daughter, BreAzia has had the privilege of travelling with her mother to all of theses places. She attends school in each country, learns a bit of the language, as well as the culture. It is an enlightening experience for both of them.

As a mother and as a role model in the community, Olympia recognizes her responsibility to give back. It is her goal to enlighten, educate, and inspire others through basketball, fitness and just forward-thinking in general. This is her passion, and Champions Clinics is the perfect outlet for such passion.