Team 7D
To become the best, you need to work with the best. All of our trainers are certified experts, and bring experience and skills to help you reach your top performance. When joining 7D Athletics, you will work with the top coaches whose only goal is to help you reach yours!
Kathleen Weber
Founder & Head Coach
Kathleen Weber is a professional basketball coach/motivator. She is a graduate of DePaul University and was an assistant coach for the DePaul women’s basketball program for six seasons. During her involvement from 1988 to 1997 with the Blue Demons, they were three time conference champions, made four NCAA tournament appearances advancing to the round of 32 two times, and made one WNIT appearance. Kathleen was an assistant coach for the University of Notre Dame women’s basketball program for the 1990-91 season in which the team signed a recruiting class ranked 5th in the country and earned their first post season bid in the WNIT. In 1997 Kathleen was named the head women’s basketball coach at the University of North Carolina at Asheville where she lead her team to the conference title game for the first time in the school’s Division I history. Kathleen led the Bulldog program for six seasons. She later was a trainer for Chicago Sky in the WNBA. She has personally trained WNBA players, college athletes and high school All-American’s.
Kathleen played collegiate basketball from 1984 to 1988 at C.W. Post, Long Island University in Brookville, NY. She is the school’s third all-time leading scorer, the program’s all-time leader in assists (503) and steals (408). She currently holds eight school records. Kathleen was inducted into the Long Island University Basketball Hall of Fame in March of 2009.
“I am a former NCAA Division I collegiate basketball coach. During my years coaching, I had the honor and privilege of working with and learning from tremendous influential leaders and team builders. I have taken these lessons and created a management and leadership system that creates individual ownership and accountability. When these programs are implemented appropriately within your organization, you will recruit, hire and train winners and your teams and business will experience unforeseen repeatable successes.”
Tyler Gaffaney
Instructor
Tyler Gaffaney is an Assistant Coach with the Wesleyan University Men’s Basketball team and completed his second season on the Cardinals coaching staff in 2018-19. In his first year, Tyler helped guide the team to their best season in program history as Wesleyan posted a 22-7 overall record and 7-3 NESCAC mark.
Before arriving at Wesleyan, Tyler played professional basketball for two years in Spain. In his rookie season, in Zaragoza, he led the Liga Leb Plata in three-point field goal percentage (48.4%). His second season was played in Moron de La Frontera. For his career, he averaged 12 points per game while shooting 50% on two-point field goals and 42% from three-point range.
Prior to playing professionally, Tyler attended Claremont McKenna College where he earned a dual undergraduate degree in psychology and economics and an MBA and played in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC). He was named First Team All-Conference three times and won two conference Player of the Year Awards. He was All-Western District twice, Western District Player of the Year once and All-American once. He earned SCIAC and Western District All-Academic Team honors twice, and was an Academic All-American once. In his final season, he ranked 10th in the nation in points per game (22.5) and fourth in total points (652). Gaffaney was a four-year starter, whose teams won four SCIAC regular season titles and two SCIAC tournament titles, posting an 83-26 record during his four years.
Tyler is a prolific writer, particularly about the mental aspects of basketball, and you can find many of his writings and thoughtful analyses on his blog HoopGains.
Peter Olausson, Ph.D.
Head of Science and Technology
Peter Olausson has always had an interest in biology and medicine since he was young. After receiving his masters degree in biochemistry at Gothenburg University, Peter was awarded a scholarship to do his PhD thesis work in psychopharmacology. He quickly developed a passion for behavioral neuroscience wanting to understand how the brain controls our behavior, the neural mechanisms involved and how the brain adapts to experience.
After completing his PhD in 2000, he was recruited to Yale University as a researcher at the Yale Center for Genes and Behavior. He subsequently spent over a decade at Yale researching how our memories, motivation and behavioral control together affect our decision-making, and the integration of cognitive and neural functions to optimize behavior.
While Peter’s time doing academic research was both successful and productive, resulting in close to 40 peer-reviewed publications that have been cited more than 3,000 times, he had entrepreneurial aspirations. In 2013 he eventually decided to leverage his scientific research experience outside academia and became a full-time entrepreneur, building a framework for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) that won the Lockheed Martin Innovation Challenge in 2018. His work was further noted by Bloomberg and Goldman Sachs. Peter is also a former elite athlete, and represented his native country of Sweden on the national team between 1991-2000 competing in International Competitions and the World Championships. He is currently heading up the science and technology programs at USNBA, using the latest research, technology and AI to help our athletes succeed.