Dickson Jensen, President

Coach: 6th boys, 8th boys, 7th girls, 9th girls, 10th & 11th girls

As a coach for the last nine years, Dickson Jensen founded All Iowa Attack Basketball in 2004. It represents the desire to promote youth basketball and to establish an arena to develop leaders among the youth in the state of Iowa.  Dickson Jensen is also the founder of the Jensen Group enterprise, which includes Jensen Property Management, Jensen Design Build, Jensen Development Corporation, The Harvester Golf Club, and All Iowa Attack Basketball.

Besides being a true entrepreneur, Dickson, an ISU alum with an engineering degree and two masters degrees, is also an example of what it means to be Dad and a wonderful husband. Dickson has been married to his wife Luann for 22 years and they have five children: Blake (20), Ally (18), Samantha (16), Mason (13), and Kolby (11).

On most occasions you will see Dickson directing the girls program of All Iowa Attack Basketball. With his dedication, the girls program has been established as one of the top programs in the country.  It is visited by many college coaches looking for the next young girl to become a leader at their university. As Dickson continues to build this program with its tradition of excellence, he has embraced directing the entire program inclusive of both the boys and girls.

Building a tradition of excellence, Dickson has guided this program in selecting high-level coaches as well as quality character kids that are responsible, respectful, and hard workers on the basketball court as well in life.

Jensen previously stated, “As you can see, to me it is about the kids and their gain for their lives now and in the future. Luann and I love kids and desire to influence them positively at these very influential years in their lives. A good kind of influence, that is honest, giving and yet firm and directive. To do this, the excellent staff of All Iowa Attack has worked very hard and are committed to continue to do this in the future, and for that I say thank you.”

Keith “Lefty” Moore

Fall Skills Instructor, Individual Trainer,  and Coach of AIA  7th, 9th, 10th & 11th grade boys

Coach Moore has been an assistant coach with the Iowa Energy of the NBA D League for the last two seasons. Moore’s basketball background includes playing in the CBA, overseas and Division 1 college basketball. He has also coached at the High School, AAU, College and Professional levels. Many Iowans will recall his days as the starting point guard for Iowa State University, where he was an All Big 8 performer his senior year. Lefty owns a skill development company out of Raleigh, North Carolina called “Elevate Basketball” that works with boys and girls ages 9 through college.

Ken Johnson

Coach: 8th girls

Coach Johnson, former Head Girls Basketball coach at Dell Rapids St. Mary’s in Dell Rapids, SD (1991-1992), brings 11 years of coaching expertise to the Attack program.  Prior to joining the Attack program five years ago, Ken coached the Iowa Maroons – AAU (1996-1998 – including a top 16 finish in 1998).  He was also very active in the Dowling Athletic Club (Des Moines) community.  As a prep, Ken was All Conference at Salem SD in his senior year.

Justin Morton

Coach: 10th and 11th grade girls

Coach Morton has been coaching with All Iowa Attack since May 2008. Justin is currently coaching at Nevada High School and brings 5 years of coaching experience from Nevada, Colfax-Mingo, and Colo-Nesco school districts.

Justin, an Iowa State University graduate, prepped at CAL Community School, Latimer, IA, where he was a 3 year starter, letter winner and Honorable Mention All-Conference in basketball.

Coach Morton’s Motto: “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather, a lack of will.” -Vince Lombardi

Randy Mauro

Coach: 10th Girls

Randy has been involved with coaching basketball for the past 20+ years. He is currently the boy’s assistant varsity coach at Des Moines Lincoln in his 2nd year. Prior to that, he held the same position at Dowling for 5 years. Randy spent a total of 10 years coaching at his alma mater. His initial years of coaching were working with elementary and junior high boys and girls. He loves teaching the game of basketball, especially the finer points, to give his players an edge in competing. Randy has 3 children, Morgan (15), Mason (15), and Gabi (11). His wife is Jodi and he thanks her for allowing and tolerating all of the time he has spent coaching.

Deb Yount-Woods

Coach: 5th & 6th girls

Coach Deb, has been a former Head Girls Basketball and Volleyball Coach for Bondurant Farrar Schools in the ‘80’s and has been coaching youth girls sports for the last 6 years in the Altoona/Southeast Polk area.  Coach Deb is a Simpson College graduate with a B.S. in Education and Business Management after starting 4 years for the woman’s basketball and softball team.  Deb received First Team All Conference honors all 4 years for both sports.  She also was inducted into the Simpson College Athlete Hall of Fame.   Coach Deb also holds two Master degrees from Drake University in Exercise Science and Adult Learning.

Previously she was the Member Service Administrator for the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, in West Des Moines for 19 years before joining Stroke Detection Plus in Des Moines as their Vice President of Business Development.

Coach Deb currently is a board member for the Wellness Council of Iowa, Simpson College Hall of Fame nominating committee and Chairperson for the Iowa Department Public Health, Fit for Life committee.

Coach Deb and her husband Jack reside on an acreage in Altoona with their daughter Jade, along with all of Jade’s pets: five American Saddlebred show horses, three cats, three frogs, two dogs, two turtles, one pigmy goat and one, 350 lb., potbelly pig.                                 

Blake Jensen

Coach: 6th boys, 7th, 8th boys, & 9th girls

Coach Jensen, a sophomore at Iowa State University, is no stranger to the All Iowa Attack program. Prior to being a coach for the last two years, Blake is an alumni of the program that taught him the importance of leadership and teamwork.
 
As a prep, Blake, a basketball standout, was a three-year starter at Ballard High, a three-time All-Conference; two-time All-District; and three-time Academic All-Conference and District performer at Ballard High School. He was a two-year starting varsity quarterback leading Ballard High School to the football playoffs. He was also selected All-District on the gridiron. He was a four-year varsity golfer winning many Conference, Sectional, and District Championships. He capped his well-rounded high school career by winning two straight 3A State Golf Championships. Blake brings a well-rounded, complete teacher and example for our young athletes.

Clay Netusil

Coach: 5th boys

Coach Netusil, former assistant men’s basketball coach at St. Thomas University, MN (1989-90) while earning his masters degree in Sports Administration, brings 5 years of coaching experience to the Attack program. Netusil also took part in two pro tryouts with the New England Patriots and the Miami Dolphins, both in 1987.

Clay has been coaching youth athletics for six years and with the Attack for four years. His championship run includes 
5 Iowa AAU State Championship youth basketball teams (3 with Carroll and 2 with All Iowa Attack) and 1 USSSA National Championship with All Iowa Attack.

Clay was a football standout at the University of Northern Iowa, where he earned AP All-America honors as a senior, and was a 3-year All-Conference punter.

Ed Steyer

Coach: 5th boys

Ed has nearly 20 years of experience coaching youth sports, ranging from ages 8 through high school varsity teams.  He spent 13 years as a paid coach in the Springfield School District in Holland, OH.  During this time he coached teams on all levels from the seventh grade through the varsity team with the last five years as the varsity assistant.  His teams have been very competitive and won league championships at all levels, including the only two league championships in school history as the varsity assistant.  He has also coached 3rd – 6th grade youth baseball and basketball teams in the Ames community.  As a prep Ed was an All-Conference, All-District and honorable mention All-State performer at Springfield High Scholl in Holland, OH.

Ed is a graduate of the University of Toledo with a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree.

Nathan Hill

Coach: 3rd boys & 4th boys

Coach Hill, a Wartburg College graduate, is new to the Attack staff and brings 5 years of coaching experience with two years at the AAU level.
 
Nathan played football all four years in college, and was a three-year starter and All-Conference basketball player at South Hamilton High School.

Jim Keislar

Coach: 8th grade boys and 4th grade girls

 Jim Keislar is from State Center, home of the West Marshall Trojans and The Rose Capital of Iowa. Jim is a life long native of Iowa and attended Iowa Falls High School and graduated from Valley High School in 1988. He has attended Marshalltown Community College and Kirkwood Community College, where he also received his coaching authorization. Jim has coached the AAU circuit for a little over 10 years through out the Midwest.  Six of those seasons he spent coaching and recruiting for the Future Stars Basketball program and also recruited for the Martin Brothers Midwest Shootouts.   When not coaching or putting together a basketball tournament, you can find him coaching the local kids in the driveway.  Jim has been with Mediacom, Des Moines for 15 years and has been married to his wife Rita for 18 years.  They have three children, Taylor, who is a senior this year and an AIA Alumni, and two time State Boys Basketball Qualifier, Trenton, 13 who is ready to follow his older brother in AIA this year, and Abby 9, who is just beginning her basketball career with AIA as well, and Baxter their dog.  Jim looks forward to coaching this year with The Attack and growing with the program.

Ally Jensen

Coach: 7th, 9th, and 11th grade girls

Ally is a 2009 McDonald’s All-America nominee. Ally led her high school squads to a combined 100-7 in her four prep campaigns. She earned all-state accolades as a junior and senior as well as being a three-time all-area honoree and four-time all-conference pick, earning first-team all-conference in her final three seasons. She led her team to a 26-1 record and state championship as a senior. The Bombers won four straight 16-0 Raccoon River Conference championships. Ally owns the school record for most three-pointers (220) and steals (261) in a career and she also set the school record with seven three-pointers made in a game. She averaged 12.3 points and topped the team with 59 three-pointers, 106 assists and 70 steals as a senior. She shot 45.7 percent from the three-point range.

In addition to basketball, she also earned four letters in golf and two in cross country leading her team to numerous championships and state tournament berths.

Ally has been an All Iowa Attack player since the 4th grade. She now has a full scholarship to play basketball at Creighton University.

Barb Franke-Lorenzen

Post Player training coach / Coach: 7th and 8th grade girls

Barb is a Cedar Fall graduate and University of Wisconsin graduate. She is on the Wisconsin women basketball Hall of Fame. Barb is a 1992 member of USA Basketball junior select team as well as a Big Ten freshman of the year. In 1994 she was a member of the USA Basketball Jones Cup team. With second-team honors in 1994 and 1995, AP All- American honorable mention and WBCA/Kodak first team all-district, both in 1995 and 1996, Barb has achieved many great things in her basketball career. She was a two-time Kodak honorable mention All-America and a three-time team MVP. She was University of Wisconsin’s all-time leading scorer with an impressive 1,994 points. She carried a lifetime scoring average of 17.5 points per game while playing in 114 consecutive games. Barb also led the University of Wisconsin to unprecedented three 20-win seasons and three NCAA bids. In 1998 Barb played with the ABL’s Chicago Condors.

Mark Thomsen

Coach: 4th grade girls