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After a distinguished basketball career that included playing in Europe, Bill Wendlandt was looking for an opportunity to stay close to the game. Having benefited from youth sports experiences that helped him earn all-state recognition at Westlake High School and MVP and Captain for the University of Texas, he decided to create an everlasting payback to the Austin community and created Hoop Zone. Bill has volunteered as a coach for 20 years, and created the renowned Texas Future Stars basketball camp in 1982. For the past ten years, Bill has coached the top 3-point percentage shooters in central Texas and his high school team led all of central Texas in scoring. Bill's Hoop Zone 15U team won the national championship and also has worked with NBA players such as T.J. Ford and Chris Mihm. He has demonstrated a track record at building confidence and character in the players he has coached. During the business week, Bill works in commercial real estate with a company he founded called Office Leasing Advisors, Inc. Bill has two wonderful kids, Shea who is twelve years old and Camryn who is seven years old.

Aaron has had an exemplary basketball experience that began by helping set a standard of excellence at McNeil High School. He led McNeil to the 1996 Final Four Texas State Tournament which helped him earn an All- American Honorable Mention in USA Today as well as Central Texas Player of the Year (1996). Aaron attended Murray State University in Murray, KY where he was a four-year Division1 basketball letterman. He appeared in three NCAA Tournaments, won four Ohio Valley Conference Championships, and was one of the top three point shooters in the conference. Basketball has also taken Aaron overseas to play on a team comprised of college, professional, and NBA players. Through five years of coaching at the High School and College level Aaron has made a commitment to teaching life values as well as basketball skills.