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About
KERRY O’NEILL
CHARACTER COACH
CHARACTER COACH
An Iowa native, Kerry O’Neill played college basketball at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, OK and internationally in 11 different countries. He spent 8 seasons as Character Coach to the NBA Houston Rockets, including their ’94 and ’95 back to back World Championships.
Coach O’Neill has served on staff with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes for 30+ years. He is a certified 3Dimensional Coaching presenter who has delivered workshops to coaches at every level of sport from over 20 countries. He was honored as a 2015 John C. Maxwell Leadership Award Top 10 Finalist.
He and his wife Barbara have 2 children – Abby is a graduate student at Columbia University in New York City and Spencer, a 2020 graduate of Yale University where he was a high jumper on the Bulldog track team, now lives in Tokyo where he is a software engineer for a gaming company. Inspired by his children, Coach O’Neill followed them to the Ivy League and he is currently completing his Masters Degree in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.