About Us

Ron Esser has been involved in youth sports for over eight years, with coaching and sports administration experience in mainly basketball and football during this time. For the past seven years, Ron has been involved as a volunteer basketball commissioner within the WCWAA. Three of those years Ron was the head basketball commissioner. In his tenure, the enrollment for basketball grew from approx. 350 to over 750 kids ranging from 6 to 15 years in age. Ron played a vital role in moving the program to a web based registration platform and creating a culture of playing for fun, learning the fundamentals and playing with class and integrity. Fun, fairness and sportsmanship were the staples of his programs. A former high school basketball player from Northern Virginia, Ron and his wife Tracey have one child, Cody, age 16.

Scott Chitwood has been involved with youth sports for over 20 years. Scott has coached basketball from the high school varsity level all the way down to instructional leagues for 5 and 6 year olds. A former division III player, Scott has an incredible amount of basketball knowledge and a true passion for the game. He implemented the current evaluation program within the WCWAA that promotes the ultimate fairness and competitiveness in our recreational leagues. Scott was the right hand person in charge, with Ron, as a member of the WCWAA over the past two years. Scott is also well connected in the community with local school coaches, sport trainers and motivational speakers. Scott and his wife Melanie have two children, Zachary and Tyler, ages 15 & 11 respectively.



Barbie Curry is our Program&Events Director.  In addition to her responsibilities as our Program&Events Director, she will oversee our volleyball programs and form a volleyball board in which she will chair.  She is a graduate of Wingate University with an undergraduate degree in Sports Management and earned her MBA.  While at Wingate, Barbie was a 4 year starter, two time team MVP and 1st team all conference her senior year.  Barbie played her HS & JO Volleyball in Ohio.  In addition to playing Volleyball, Barbie has 8 years of coaching experience (from youth to college to Jr Olympics).  The past year, Barbie worked as a grad assistant coach to current Wingate head coach Shelton Collier.  Barbie and her husband Mason reside in Charlotte.



Matt Jones is our Basketball Operations Manager.  Matt will run all youth basketball programs at Carolina Courts and oversee all instruction.  In addition, Matt will chair our basketball board.  Matt is a local graduate of Charlotte Christian and Appalachian State University.  He has a Business Management degree from ASU and earned a full basketball scholarship on the men's basketball team, finishing 3rd all time in steals for his career.  Matt was invited to play professional basketball overseas for the Wellington Saints in New Zealand.  Over the past 2 years, Matt was with 2XSalt as their Director of Basketball Operations.  While at 2XSalt, Matt worked with youth from 6 years old to 18 years old on basketball skill development, running leagues, academies, camps and clinics, as well as private lessons.  Matt is the son of former UNC tar heel, 1972 Olympian and NBA defensive star Bobby Jones.  Matt and his wife Ashley reside in Charlotte.




Shelton Collier is our Sr Director of Volleyball Operations.  Shelton will work closely with Barbie on our volleyball curriculum and sit on our volleyball board.  Shelton is currently the Woman's Head Volleyball Coach for the Wingate Bulldogs.  He has been at Wingate since 2002. Shelton has over 27 years of college level volleyball coaching experience.  From 1980 to 1988 he coached at the Univ of Pittsburgh, where he had a 296-93 record and was Big East AND Northeast Regional coach of the year in 1987.  For the next 2 years, Coach Collier was an assistant to the USA Women's National Team.  In 1990, he was the head coach for the first USA Women's Youth National Team Program. From 1991 to 2002, Coach Collier was the Woman's Head Volleyball Coach for Georgia Tech.  In those 11 years, he compliled a 565-207 record, achieving the highest winning percentage (.732) in their programs history.  He was ranked in the top 15 of NCAA Division I coaches in total wins and winning percentage.  He was also named ACC Coach of the Year, Tachikara Southeast Region Coach of the Year and Georgia Collegiate Coach of the Year.  Other achievement over the past  six years include:  2002, 2004, 2005 Head Coach for the Junior National Team - winning a gold medal in 2004.   2003&2006 Head Coach for the USA Youth National Team.  In 2006, his team participated in the World Championships in Mexico.  They also won a gold medal at the NORECA Championships, which qualified the team for the 2007 Junior World Championships in Ankara, Turkey.  Shelton and his wife Diane reside in Union County.