Coach Todd Sundstrom brings over two decades of coaching experience across youth and high school basketball. Currently serving as the Girls Varsity Head Coach at Newton North High School, he leads all aspects of the program—from player development and team culture to offensive and defensive systems. Prior to Newton North, Coach Sundstrom held the same role at Masconomet Regional High School and was a longtime JV and Varsity Assistant Coach at both Reading Memorial High School and Arlington High School, working closely with athletes from freshman to varsity levels.
Coach Sundstrom has coached both boys and girls in Arlington, including roles as a freshman and JV boys coach, and JV girls and varsity assistant coach. As the father of three daughters, he developed a passion for coaching girls basketball, focusing on fundamentals, teamwork, and skill development. He also coached with the Reading Basketball Club, working extensively with youth girls’ teams in grades 5–8. He is a USA Basketball Gold Licensed Coach, a certification that reflects his commitment to advanced coaching education, player safety, and teaching the game with integrity and excellence.
In addition to coaching, Coach Sundstrom has been a middle school social studies teacher in Arlington for over 25 years. He approaches both teaching and coaching with dedication and a focus on helping young people improve and succeed.
Howie Landau has been the Varsity Girls Basketball Coach at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School for the past 6 seasons. For 4 straight seasons, LS has progressed past the first round of the state tournament and also won 2 Dual County League titles.
Prior to coaching at LS, Howie spent 5 seasons as the Varsity Assistant coach at Newton North High School, and has also coached high school soccer, volleyball and lacrosse. He also currently coaches the Unified Basketball and Unified Track & Field teams at LS. Howie was a Graduate Assistant Women’s Basketball coach at Boston University, and also was the Head Student Manager at BU for 4 seasons as an undergrad. Howie loves coaching in a positive manner and helping young people work towards their goals!
Oryx Cohen is the Head Coach for the Natick Girls Varsity basketball team. In his second season he led a turn around from a 5-14 season to 17-6, a #5 ranking in the state, and winning the Bay State Carey Division as well as the Roundball Classic
tournament. Coach O coaches year round, in the off season he is a Senior Coach at the Blazers Basketball Club, where he coaches two elite girls teams and co-created the state of the art Quantum Skills Program. Coach O played college basketball at Lewis & Clark College and has been coaching for over 15 years. During the day Oryx works as the CEO for the National Empowerment Center, an international organization dedicated to improving mental health and wellness across the globe. He helped develop a training called Emotional CPR, which is now an evidence-based practice used worldwide. Oryx believes in positive coaching, hard work, and having fun, using the team sport of basketball to develop confident, selfless team players who can use the life lessons learned through basketball to become happy, healthy, respectful, successful, and caring adults.
We are thrilled to welcome an incredibly experienced and inspiring coach to speak at Metrowest Elite this summer. Coach Glen Magpiong has over two decades of high school coaching experience, he has led both boys’ and girls’ varsity programs at Wellesley High School and Acalanes High School in California. His teams have consistently achieved success, including a North Coast Section Championship and five appearances in the sectional semifinals. His overall varsity coaching record stands at an impressive 196–96, with a 67% win rate across both boys’ and girls’ teams.
But his impact goes far beyond the win column. Throughout his career, he has focused on developing not just athletes, but confident, resilient individuals. He teaches players to harness their passion, embrace responsibility, and push through adversity. His coaching philosophy emphasizes teamwork, positive thinking, accountability, and the value of hard work—skills that serve players on and off the court.
From leading youth programs like Mini-Raiders and CYO to earning the 2023 Bay State League Coach of the Year award, he has always prioritized mentorship and character-building. We’re excited for our campers to learn from someone who truly understands what it takes to grow as both a basketball player and a person.
Latoyia is an Emmy Award-winning anchor on NBC 10 Boston and NECN.
She joined the NBC Boston and NECN family as a morning reporter in 2005, arriving from WWLP-22 in Springfield, Massachusetts, where she had been a weekday anchor.
A native of Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, Latoyia graduated magna cum laude from Emerson College with a degree in Broadcast Journalism. She began her career as a news writer for WBZ 1030-AM radio, and later reported for the Fox affiliate WICZ-TV 40 in Binghamton, New York.
Latoyia was a scholar athlete who not only excelled in the classroom but on the basketball court breaking numerous NCAA Division III rebounding and blocked shots records. Latoyia currently ranks 5th in the nation in blocked shots per game 5.1 and 4th in the nation in rebounds per game 15.2.
Latoyia understands the benefits of being a student-athlete. The powerful messages of teamwork, commitment and dedication that support the values of being a well-rounded student-athlete.
Coach Gaines is an Assistant Coach with the Algonquin Regional High Boys Varsity Basketball program, and has also worked as an Assistant Coach in the Framingham High School Varsity Basketball program. He specializes in teaching basketball skill sets, especially post play and shooting mechanics, to developing players and has many, many “success stories”. He has taught over a thousand players to shoot, working with large groups, small groups, and individual players. He is well known for his diverse and fast paced shooting workouts, and has helped many hundreds of young players to perfect their shooting form, and improve their game.
He has taught shooting at numerous basketball clinics and camps throughout the area and in other states, and is known as “The Shot Doctor” for the success he has had in “fixing” bad shooting form. His method of teaching players to shoot is unique, effective and generates noticeable results in a very short time.
Joe Reedy was named the head coach of the Curry women’s basketball program in the fall of 2021 after serving as an assistant coach with the Curry men’s program for three seasons.
In his first season with the men’s team, Reedy implemented study hall sessions in conjunction with Academic Services, which led to the highest team grade point average in program history. In addition, he was in charge of designing Adidas gear packages for all student-athletes and coaches. Reedy also played a key part in recruiting 12 student-athletes as a part of the Class of 2023, and played an integral part in all parts of the program including scouting, recruiting, and on-court coaching. He also maintained the video database of all games through Synergy and developed scouting reports from the film.
Before Curry, Reedy spent two years as an assistant coach at Wheelock College. In his second season with the Wildcats, he was named Associate Head Coach.
Reedy also has experience as the Head Coach of Rise Above Basketball in Boston in 2019.
As a student-athlete at Wheelock, Reedy was a member of the men’s basketball team from 2013-16. He also played one year at New England College in Henniker, N.H. During his time at Wheelock, he served as a team captain and holds all-time program records in field-goal percentage in a season and a career. Reedy graduated from Wheelock in May 2017 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.
Becca is 41 years old, and lives in Belmont MA with her husband Joe and 14 year old daughter Taylor. She graduated from Belmont High School in 1998. Having been the first American female to run the World Marathon Challenge in 2016- 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days, Becca went back, and made history by running it again and breaking the Guinness Book of World Record in a time of 6 Days, 7 Hours and 58 minutes.
Her current goal is to complete a marathon in all 50 states she has run 40 states. She attributes her success to the her family and the Boston Community who both have inspired her and supported her dreams. She is most passionate about directing the Becca Pizzi 5k race in Belmont (August 28th), and the Becca Pizzi Foundation and Becca is an author of children’s book “Becca’s Feat on Feet.” All book proceeds benefit the Becca Pizzi Foundation.
