by Dave Delgado
Guam - The new head coach of the Guam Men's National Basketball Team will be former Guam National player EJ Calvo, while overall Director of Basketball Operations, Tony Thompson, retains coaching duties for the women's program, as well as overall management of coaching assignments and strategic planning for the program.
Thompson has been a part of the Guam Basketball Federation since 1996. Thompson is looking forward to the challenges that the women's program has in store. According to Thompson, "EJ was appointed to the position after it became vacant. He is immediately getting started with a training program and team development initiatives for the next term with the East Asian Games coming up in China. I have total faith in his abilities as a coach to take the program to the next level".
Calvo is a former stand-out athlete from Father Duenas, where he played 3 seasons for Coach Thompson on the varsity squad. Calvo left the island his senior year only to win a California High School State Championship in 1995. He went on to play both basketball and football at the Division II and NAIA level, and returned as a player on the Guam National Basketball Team from 2002 to 2007, where he again played for Coach Thompson.