Pete Alexandrou & Jason Franzen are the co-owners of 3rd Side Basketball. They coach together at Clearwater Academy International High School & PostGrad.
Over the past 10 years Pete has served as both an assistant and head coach at the high school level in the Tampa, Florida area winning multiple district and County Conference titles. Pete has developed numerous players into All-County selections from 3 different high schools.
In 2019 Pete accepted the position of Head Coach at Clearwater Academy International. In year one, the team earned a 21-7 record against one of the states toughest schedules, and helped get all five Post Grad players a college scholarship after the season.
Jason has been a High School Coach for 24 years in Tampa area, coaching under Randall Leath & David Thorpe. Jason took over a program that had lost 42 games in a row, had not made the state playoffs in 15 years & had not won a state playoff game since 1967. In 4 years they accomplished all those & more advancing to the State Sweet 16. Franzen then left to work for a friend & hall of fame coach, Tom Shaneyfelt, with Pete. Pete & Jason then left to help Clearwater Academy International start a basketball program & through that they fell into the post grad level of basketball.
Both Jason & Pete work with Coach David Thorpe training HS, College, & Pros during the off-season.
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Website – http://www.3rdsidebasketball.com/
Email – alexandroupeter@gmail.com franzenj@pcsb.org
Twitter - @coachpete01 @franzenj07
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