Aaron McCarthy

Aaron McCarthy
Player information
birthday	November 24, 1961 (58 years and 281 days)
place of birth	Vallejo , California , United States
size	188 cm
Clubs as coaches
1987–1988 Utah Utes ( NCAA ) 1988–1993 Bobcat Gent 1993–1994 Iso Castors Braine 1994–1995 Steiner Bayreuth 1995–1999 Torpan Pojat Helsinki 1997–2001 Finland 2000 Espoon Honka (as GM) 2001–2003 Telindus Oostende 2003–2005 X -Rays Würzburg 2006–2007 Tigers Tübingen 2008–2009 Lebanon 2009 Changan 2009–2010 Fujian SBS XunXin 2010 TBB Trier 2010–2012 RBC Verviers-Pepinster 2017–2018 Al-Ahli 2018–2019 Al-Shorta SC 00000 00000 00000

Aaron McCarthy (born November 24, 1961 in Vallejo , California ) is an American basketball coach who has coached several clubs in the German national basketball league . The father of three trained, among other things, the Belgian Royal Basket Club from Pepinster and worked in Finland and Asian countries.

Career

After coaching a high school team in his home country for two years, McCarthy became the assistant coach of the Utah Utes , the college team at the University of Utah , in 1987 . After a year he moved to Europe as head coach and trained the professional basketball team based there in Ghent, Belgium . In 1992 he won the Belgian cup competition with Ghent. After a stopover in Braine-l'Alleud , he came to the Franconian Bayreuth for the 1994/95 season . He worked there under sports director Lester Habegger . McCarthy came under fire during the season. The young coach, whom Habegger partly supported in training, was troubled by the small squad and the injury-related loss of development player Derrick Taylor . Nonetheless, McCarthy and the Bayreuthers managed to move into the championship round as third in the table in the Bundesliga southern season, where they were eliminated in the quarter-finals against Alba Berlin .

After one season he moved to Finland and trained in Helsinki with Torpan Pojat, one of the most renowned Finnish basketball clubs, with which he was three times Finnish champion from 1996 to 1998 and cup winner in 1996 and 1997 and vice-cup winner in 1998. As the successor to Henrik Dettmann , he also acted as national coach of the Finnish team from 1997 to 2001. After he was fired by Torpan Pojat in November 1999 , he worked in Espoo in 2000 as a sports director at Honka . In February 2001 he went back to Belgium and coached the local top club Telindus from Ostend , which he was able to lead to the championship and cup victory in Belgium. He was released in November of the same year. In March 2003 he finally came back to Franconia and succeeded Keith Gray with the X-Rays from Würzburg . By adding two teams to the Bundesliga for the 2003/04 season , it was possible to stay in the league despite a relegation place. After relegation was also achieved athletically in the following season, relegation could no longer be avoided in the 2004/05 season .

In January 2006 McCarthy finally found a new engagement with the Tigers from Tübingen as the successor to Patrick Elzie . After relegation, his contract was extended and in the following season 2006/07 McCarthy came with the team in the vicinity of the play-off places for the German championship. After a failed season start in the 2007/08 season , McCarthy was dismissed by the Tübingen team in December 2007. From September 2008 he worked as national coach in Lebanon before he was in charge of the Parklane Donguan team in China in 2009 , with which he won the championship in the NBL. He then trained Fujian SBS XunXin from the Chinese province of Fujian . After his release in February 2010, he was signed by the relegation-threatened Bundesliga club TBB Trier as the successor to Yves Defraigne , so that he returned to Germany again. Despite the successful relegation, his contract was not extended. His successor in Trier was Henrik Rödl for the 2010/2011 season . At the end of December 2010, McCarthy was again coach in Belgium, this time at the Royal Basket Club from Pepinster , which, however, had the worst record of all Belgian first division teams in the 2011/12 season, which is why his contract was not renewed.

In the 2017/18 season he again took on a coaching position and looked after Al-Ahli in Bahrain . In 2018/19 McCarthy worked in Iraq , where he coached Al Shorta.

Web links

• Aaron McCarthy, Head Coach ( Memento of 23 August 2011 in the Internet Archive ) - Portrait on the RBC Verviers-Pepinster website (in French)
• Aaron McCarthy ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) - (BBL portrait)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hansjörg Lösel: Basketball: Interview with ex-Tigers coach McCarthy. Schwäbisches Tagblatt , March 26, 2010, accessed on March 30, 2010 (press article with interview). 
2. ↑ Dino Reisner: Because Steiner and Lester Habegger couldn't leave each other . In: 111 reasons to love Medi Bayreuth: A declaration of love to the greatest basketball city in the world . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86265-770-4 , pp. 130-132 .
3. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Basketball: Aaron Mc Carthy, the new trainer of Lebanon )
4. ^ Coach Profile Aaron McCarthy. In: asia-basket.com. Retrieved May 26, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Aaron McCarthy new sporting manager at TBB Trier. Schönen Dunk website, March 19, 2010, accessed July 25, 2017 (press release). 
6. ↑ Norbayerischer Courier Germany: Ex-Bayreuth in Iraq: Trainer mission in former enemy territory - North Kurier. Retrieved May 26, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Al-Shorta SC • الشرطة: Welcome to the club, American basketball coach Aaron McCarthy! Let's hope he can help bring that title back to Al-Shorta. كرة السلة ايرون مكارثي الأمريكي مرحبًا بك في نادينا المدرب الجديد لفريق pic.twitter.com/lO65bP84nC. September 17, 2018, accessed May 26, 2020 .