Educating and Developing Girls for Excellence
in Basketball

EDGE is a summer and fall program for developing fundamental basketball skills for girls in the 4th through 8th grade.  The program is conducted in Dublin, Ohio.

About EDGE

EDGE began in 1994 as a six-week summer program for girls basketball.  Our first year 24 players participated.  In 2008 there were a total of 62 players in four sessions.   EDGE is an alternative to, but can also be a supplement for, other week-long basketball camps.  The focus is on reinforcement of good practice habits and fundamental skills. The structure is a 1 hour 45 minute session once a week for six weeks.   Make-up sessions are also available.  Each week reinforces the previous and builds to a fairly simple, yet diverse practice routine which is designed to help players keep working on fundamentals throughout the summer.  Classes are kept small to allow individual attention.  With approximately 13 to 16 players per session and two, three, or four coaches, players get individual attention each week.

About Jim Link, Founder of EDGE

Jim is a basketball coach in the Dublin, Ohio area and has been coaching youth sports since 1966.

He also was an assistant coach for three years at Bishop Watterson High School in Columbus, where the team's record of 55-14 included a district championship in 2004 and a district runner-up in 2003.

Coaching younger players, Jim has been head coach of the Dublin Youth Athletics (DYA) sixth grade traveling (select) girls basketball team for nineteen years.  He was also head coach DYA boys sixth grade traveling basketball team and was twice selected as Coach of the Year by the league coaches.  Jim was seventh grade girls basketball coach for three years at Sells and Grizzell Middle Schools and worked at Dublin Coffman High School on the girls basketball staff and was Jerome High School's first basketball coach.

Jim owns his own actuarial consulting business and serves as athletic director to DYA, a volunteer organization of parents providing baseball, softball, tee-ball, golf, basketball, volleyball, and lacrosse programs for kids in Dublin, Ohio.

Jim and his wife, Linda, are life-long Columbus area residents, living in Dublin since 1981.  Linda is a customer service manager in Worthington, Ohio.  They have two children, Jim and Kelly, and two grandsons, Brady and Parker.

Jim and his wife, Betsy, are graduates of Miami University.   Jim is currently employed by Forest City Enterprises in Cleveland.  Jim lettered in baseball and was an assistant coach with the Miami baseball program.  Among his other accomplishments at Miami was the development of the first web site for the Miami baseball team.  That site has since been incorporated into the Miami athletic department's site.  In his senior season at Dublin High School Jim was co-captain of the baseball team, earning Scholar Athlete and Player-of-the-Year honors in the Ohio Capital Conference Ohio Division.  He was also selected first team All-Ohio by the Ohio High School Baseball Coaches Association.   

Kelly is a graduate of Miami University, having majored in sport organization.  She earned her Masters degree at The Ohio State University in 2002 in Sport Management.  She is a real estate agent in Dublin and was an assistant coach at Jerome High School.  She previously was Manager of Athletic Events in the Department of Athletics at Harvard University.  Prior to Harvard, Kelly was an intern with the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Miami RedHawks, working in game operations.  She earned a varsity letter as a member of the 1998-1999 RedHawks women's basketball team, making the team as a walk-on her sophomore year.  Kelly was one of only five players who played every game for Miami that year and earned a start in the Eastern Michigan game.  Kelly was a four year starter for the Dublin Coffman High School girls basketball team, serving as co-captain her senior year.  She was named to the All-Ohio Capital Conference Ohio Division first team her junior and senior seasons and was selected to the All-Ohio team by the Associated Press.  She held Coffman's all-time leading scoring and rebounding records and was the first player in school history, girl or boy, to score more than 1,000 career points.

Contact Information

            Electronic mail - Your best bet to find me

            General Information: jlink@netwalk.com

           

            Postal address

            6065 Springburn Drive  Dublin, Ohio  43017