Maya Fok - Director
SF Sparks Basketball
Maya Fok is a San Francisco native and attended Katherine Delmar Burke School for grammar school. She grew up training in martial arts and was determined to thrive in sports when she decided to attend St. Ignatius. She was a 4-year starter as the point guard at SI and received league MVP honors her senior year in high school in 1998. She then played 2 years at UC Davis and finished her career at UC San Diego in 2002.
She was an assistant coach for the Varsity Girls Basketball team at St. Ignatius from 2003-2006. She then attended graduate school at Dominican University in San Rafael for a Masters in Occupational Therapy, where she also was an assistant coach at the collegiate level for the 2006-2007 basketball season. After graduate school in the summer of 2009, Maya helped coach an AAU team for 7th and 8th graders through the JCC. She coached at Convent high school from 2012-2014. In 2014, she became the Head Coach at Urban High school and has been there for 6 years.
Maya currently works as a pediatric occupational therapist, working with children with special needs and developmental delay, and she is the owner of a private clinic called Connected Kidz in lower Pacific Heights. She has been a member of the Olympic Club’s National Women’s team since 2009 and is currently still playing, as the oldest member of the team. She has also coached the Men’s Golden Masters (55-year-old) Olympic Club team since 2014 and continues to coach them. In addition, Maya has been coaching OC AAU girls since 2018.
Maya has a passion and love for the game of basketball and truly believes in teaching the fundamentals of the game. She is extremely competitive and strives to stay positive as a player and coach. Maya returned to her alma mater in March 2020, as the Head Varsity Girls Basketball coach!