Blue Star Basketball

Contributing Authors

Mike Flynn
Mike Flynn is owner and operator of Blue Star Basketball and U.S. Junior Nationals. He is a National Evaluator and publishes the Blue Star Report which ranks the top 100 high school girls basketball players in the nation. He also serves as Secretary of the Middle Atlantic District AAU, National Chair for AAU Lacrosse, Consultant to Gatorade for girls basketball, member of the McDonalds All –American selection committee, and Consultant for Nike Global Basketball.

Chris Mennig
Chris Mennig is the National Evaluator for Blue Star Basketball, & Event Coordinator for US Junior Nationals. Mennig was a women's college basketball assistant coach/recruiter for over 10 years, with stops at Bryant College, Brown, St. Bonaventure, Illinois State, & the University of Illinois. Presently a member of the McDonald's All-American committee, he has lectured at various recruiting clinics as well as at the Women's Basketball Coaches Association Convention.

Kevin Lynch
Kevin Lynch has been a member of the Blue Star Basketball family for nearly 15 years. Lynch was regarded as one of the most successful and respected travel team coaches in the country. He was a coach for the Nike sponsored Philadelphia Belles for 14 years. Lynch has guided the program to a national title in 2003, and runner-up in 2005 & 2006. Lynch has had the opportunity to work with over 50 players that went on to compete at the Division I level. Including five McDonald's All-Americans, seven WBCA-All-Americans, and 11 Parade All-Americans. Lynch is presently a member of the McDonald's All-American committee.

Duffy Burns
Duffy Burns is a national evaluator for Blue Star Basketball after over 25 years in collegiate basketball. Duffy spent his first six years on the men's side with stops a programs such as UMass & Pittsburgh working with the likes of John Calipari. He has now spent nearly 20 years on the women's side. Holding assistant positions at Central Connecticut State, Ball State, & Toledo, as well as eight years as the head coach at Cleveland State. Burns, is one of the more respected and long standing members of the WBCA, he has served on the Kodak All-American Committee, the WBCA Board of Directors as the Male Coaches of Women's Basketball representative, and on the Francis Pomeroy Naismith Committee just to name a few.

Wendy Parker
Wendy Parker is a sportswriter, blogger and web editor who has followed women's basketball for nearly two decades. She has covered 15 Women's Final Fours, primarily for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she also wrote about college football and other college sports, the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics as well as the 2002 men's soccer World Cup and the 1999 and 2003 Women's World Cups. She has been a correspondent for Basketball Times since 1991 and currently serves as women's editor for the magazine and is a longtime member of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association.

Winston Kelly
Winston Kelly is owner and operator of GameBall Magazine. He created GameBall to cover the basketball market of New York City and the surrounding quad-state area of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New York. He has been a talent evaluator for the Blue Star Report for over 10 years. He is a Member of the McDonalds All-American selection committee. Winston also does Talent Identification for the Big Apple Evaluating Services and a number of other minor reports. He is a member of ExodusBasketball.com/ExodusTV.