NBA and Coaches clinics for children and teenagers in USA
Aleksander Mrozik is an active coach of Jr. NBA for which in the years 2019-2025 he did run clinics for children and adolescents teenagers at biggest basketball event in the world, NBA All-Star Weekend.
2019 – Charlotte
2020 – Chicago
2023 – Utah
2024 – Indianapolis
2025 – San Francisco
During these events, he shared the court with former and current NBA players/stars such as: Bruce Bowen, Jerry Stackhouse, Lauri Markkanen, Dikembe Mutombo +R.I.P+, Seth Curry, Del Curry, Blake Griffin, Jameer Nelson, Ben Simmons.
Basketball Camps
Since 2011, Coach Mrozik HoopLife has been organizing basketball camps for children and teenagers.
During this time, he managed to organize 52 sessions of training camps, attended by over approximately 10,000 players, including: players such as today’s and former Polish national team representatives, Karol Gruszecki, Jakub Karolak, Jakub Nizioł and Jakub Garbacz, and hundreds of other players currently playing in PLK or the 1st League in Poland.
Sports camps were always serving to develop players and set them on the right track to achieve their maximum potential in the future.
Apart from many camps in Poland, coach Mrozik organized many camps in other countries, including: in the USA (other camps that participation in NBA events), Hungary (Budapest) and Ukraine, where the HoopLife organization is extremely popular.
Scouting/Scholarships in the USA
Thanks to scouting at various tournaments in Europe and at HoopLife Basketball Camps, he managed to connect nearly 200 players (since 2013) with high schools and universities in the USA and with clubs/schools in Greece, Spain, Serbia and Italy.
Many of these players continue their basketball careers today, while others used their experience, international education and english language skills for pursuing professional careers in other fields than sports.
Coaching career and basketball club activities
Coach Mrozik has always been convinced that POLISH BASKETBALL must start developing from the bottom of the training pyramid.
Since 2013, coach Mrozik was closely associated with training children and youth in Lublin, Poland in clubs such as:
– 2013 – 2016 – Pro-Basket Lublin
– 2016 – 2021 – HoopLife Academy
– 2021 – 2024 – Lublinianka Basketball
Thanks to his commitment, he created and ran sports clubs that gave children of all ages the opportunity to practice basketball.
Today, Lublinianka Basketball, which he created from scratch, is the largest basketball club in the Lublin region, where nearly 285 children train every week.
In 2015, coach Mrozik also worked for a few months in Europe, at the Spanish CBA (Canarias Basketball Academy), to better understand the structures of Spanish basketball. During his work at the CBA Academy, he served as a specialist in the technical preparation of peripheral players.
In 2012 and 2014, he led the unofficial U21 national selection of POLAND at the prestigious Touroi Basket Mondial tournament in Lille, France, where clubs and national selections of teams from the USA, Canada, Serbia and Russia gathered every year.
The best player from 2014 to compete in the tournament in France was Malik Beasley, current NBA player and participant of the 3-point shooting contest at the 2024 NBA All-Star Game.
Career as a basketball player
Coach Mrozik is a graduate of AZS Lublin, who, at the age of less than 18, went to the USA to the Reserve Christian school in Louisiana.
In the first year of his stay in the USA, playing on one team with the record holder of points scored of all time in high school, Demond Tweety Carter, he competed against future NBA players such as Dwight Howard, Glen Davis , D.J Augustine and Gerritt Temple.
In the second and third year of his high school stay, he moved to the state of Georgia to the CCS school, where in two years, was competing at the highest level of the prep school league and in many games with other future NBA players, such as Gerald Green and Lou Williams.
After 3 years in the USA, he signed the NIT with Birmingham Southern, where he suppose to play an important role on the team starting from the first year of his studies. Unfortunately, the university from Birmingham lost financial liquidity and local sponsors 5 months before the start of the season in which Mrozik was supposed to join the university team. This resulted in the team moving from NCAA D1 to NCAA D3 (where it is still today) and Mrozik’s full atletic scholarship was canceled at the last minute.
Coach Mrozik ultimately earned an NCAA D1 athletic scholarship to the Youngstown State Pengiuns at the last minute, but the team had older than him all-conference players and top scorers in the Horizon League conference at his position.
Despite episodes in games against Michigan State and UCLA, in which he played 12 minutes and scored 3 points against players such as Kevin Love, Russell Westbrook and Daren Collison, he was unable to break into the game rotation at this university and moved to NCAA D2 in Ashland University.
After returning to Poland, he played 1 season in the 1st PL League, after which he decided to hang up his boots and start rebuilding Polish basketball, which continues to this day.