Willie Kemp
Willie Kemp is a basketball coach, owner of Beyond The Game Athletic Training, and budding Entrepreneur. A graduate of Bolivar Central High School in 2005, he was crowned Mr. Basketball Tennessee and offered a full athletic scholarship to the University of Memphis.
There he excelled in basketball and obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Sports Management. He then spent 10 years playing professional basketball in Europe.
After retiring from professional sports, Kemp returned to his old stomping grounds in Memphis, Tennessee and served as a graduate assistant basketball coach at his alma mater from 2021-2022. The following season, he joined the coaching staff at Lemoyne-Owen College as an assistant coach for the men’s basketball team.
Always eager to expand his talents off the court, Kemp alongside his wife built a non-profit dental and medical center in Jonesboro, Arkansas and currently operates WK Construction, a construction company based in Memphis, TN that specializes in low-income home remodeling.
Wanting to pay it forward, Willie sponsors the children of Bolivar, Tennessee with an annual “Back To School” drive, provides gifts to families in the community during the holidays, and entertains the city with his yearly firework show at the park.
Kemp accepted the job as Head Coach of White Haven High School in Memphis TN on (Wednesday) March 17, 2023. Kemp is noted as saying. " I felt that if I was going to (leave) the collegiate level, I was going to go to a high school that’s going to compete... To win state championships and compete on a nightly basis where kids will want to come and parents will want their kids to come." Lastly, Kemp is noted as saying, "Just being at Whitehaven, of course everybody is going to put their big-boy shoes on when they’re coming to play Whitehaven,” Kemp said. “I feel like we wouldn’t want it no other way."
