2024 JAGS COACHES
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Rick Laemmle
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Rick Laemmle is the director of the Louisville Jags program. He has coached youth sports for over 23 years, including coaching basketball for the past 16 seasons. He has coached in the Catholic School Athletic Association for 12 years at St. Stephen Martyr and St. Raphael, winning multiple city championships between the schools as a head coach. He was also the girls varsity head coach at Fern Creek High School, Assistant Coach at Mercy Academy and coached in the Louisville Jags AAU program for 6 years. He served as a grade school Athletic Director for 8 years, and girls Basketball Coordinator for 12 seasons as well where he helped guide other girls CSAA teams to over 10 city championships along the way. He is most proud of helping countless young players achieve their basketball goals of playing quality high school and college basketball, while passionately teaching the most valuable life lessons that sports can parallel. He cherishes the countless friendships formed with the great families he’s met, the quality young people he’s coached, and the fellow coaches he’s worked with through basketball over the years.
He is married to wife Angie (Mercy Academy), and has three daughters: Jessica (University of Louisville Basketball 2016-2020, Mercy Academy Basketball 2012-2015), Jenna (Mercy Academy / Union Volleyball), and Julia (St. Raphael, Louisville Jags Basketball, Union Volleyball).
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Abigail Walsh
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Abigail Walsh is the Assistant Director of the Louisville Jaguars, as well as a coach in the program. She has been coaching in the program for 11 years as both a head coach and an assistant coach. Abigail's teams have won Kentucky state championships, been runners-up in the state, and competed on a National level. Abigail played in the Louisville Jaguars program for 4 years.
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Donnie Shephard
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Donnie Shephard has been part of the Mercy Basketball staff at the Freshman, Junior Varsity and Varsity levels. Over the past 21 years he has coached basketball at the different grade levels in both elementary and middle school. Donnie’s most recent coaching positions include coaching St. Gabriel 8A, 6A and 4A girls basketball and the Louisville Jags 8th grade team. His experience does not stop at basketball, he also coaches softball for Fern Creek Babe Ruth league and the Louisville SWAT 10U travel softball team.
Over the past 12 years Donnie has been a coach for the Louisville Jaguars program. Donnie believes in the Jags program and values the way the program focuses on building fundamentals of the young ladies in the program. He gets excited about watching girls start in the program and then go on to play High School basketball at Mercy or other local High Schools. He has coached several players that have advanced to play in the college ranks.
Donnie noted he has been blessed with some really great players at St. Gabriel and they have enabled him to be part of multiple Basketball and Softball City Championships in the Catholic School Athletic Association (CSAA). He hopes to add another this coming season.
Donnie’s philosophy for coaching is to develop players to get to their next level and not only teach the sport, but help them shape themselves into leaders and great young ladies. His goal is to prepare each girl in all positions to make them more valuable to their team. He demands respect and a high level of work ethic from his players. He truly has a passion for teaching the game he loves.
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Mike Barrow
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Mike Barrow has been coaching youth basketball in Louisville for almost 31 years. He has been a pillar in the Louisville Jags program where he is entering his 17th season. He has coached girls basketball in the Catholic School Athletic Association for over 26 years, and coached boys for multiple seasons prior to that. Mike is a firm believer in developing fundamentals and teaching kids how to play intensive defense. He has coached countless players that have went on to play high school and college basketball.
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Tim Greer
Tim Greer has coached youth sports for over 30 years. He first started coaching boys CSAA basketball at St. Pius in 1978. He was a coach and basketball coordinator at Our Lady of Lourdes for 25 years. He also coaches high school as an assistant at Fern Creek and CAL, as well as coached and coordinated the Christian Academy Middle School program. This will be his 9th year coaching in the Louisville Jags program.
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Tim believes there are multiple ways to communicate and teach the game of basketball as different players learn in different ways. He embraces the culture of teamwork, trust, unselfishness and having fun on / off the court. He also emphasizes diversity is a strength of any team or organization. Tim has a passion for the game, but at the end of the day he believes there is more to life than basketball and we must keep all things in perspective. However, he uses the sport of basketball to help develop and prepare the young ladies for life beyond hoops.
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Tim has three daughters and two grandchildren: Margeaux, 40, resides in North Carolina with her husband who is based out of Fort Bragg; they have two children (Guinevere 6 and Donovan 3), Abigail, 38, resides in Colorado, Kristy, 36, resides in Louisville.
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Tim Luckett
Tim Luckett has been married to his wife Kathy for 38 years and has two children: Amanda, a school teacher at Corral Ridge Elementary, and Anthony, lead supervisor for Tri-Vest industries.
Tim has coached basketball for 30 years, including 4 years of boys basketball and 26 years of girls basketball. He has coached all age groups at many different schools including St. Denis, St. Helens, St. Simon and Jude, St. Nicholas, Holy Trinity, Roosevelt Perry Elementary, St. Paul and St. Raphael (currently).
He enjoys teaching the sport of basketball and providing leadership to young athletes. His greatest joy is watching athletes evolve not only into great basketball players, but also great people. He gets great joy not only from teaching, but also in learning from the young athletes. Basketball has always been a big part of Coach Luckett's life and he is very thankful for it.
Doug Young
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Doug Young has coached basketball for over 24 years, including 17 years at the high school level - serving 10 years as the girls head varsity coach at Kentucky Country Day.
Doug has also taught social studies for 24 years in high school, with the past 13 years at Mercy Academy.
Doug’s family includes wife Laurie, son Alex (at Notre Dame), and daughters Maggie and Molly (7th grade Louisville Jags).
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Kayla Richardson
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Kayla Richardson has been involved with the Louisville Jags for 5 years as a player and 6 years as a coach. She has assisted with a couple of different age groups over the past couple of years, competing at state and regional tournaments. After her soccer and basketball careers at Mercy Academy, she went on to play 4 years at Lindsey Wilson College. Kayla returned to Mercy as the head coach of the Freshman team, as well as JV and Varsity assistant from 2017-2021.
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