Bill Paterno

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Bill Paterno (born March 24,  1955 in Spring Lake, New Jersey ) is an American basketball coach and former player.

career

Paterno grew up as the oldest of eleven siblings in Spring Lake, New Jersey , and played basketball at the University of Notre Dame from 1973 to 1977 . The 1.96 meter tall winger played a total of 116 games for the "Fighting Irish" and scored an average of 9.8 points and 4.7 rebounds per encounter. His best university season was 1974/75, when Paterno posted averages of 13.3 points and 6.8 rebounds. In his last two years he was the captain of the university team. In 1977 the Kansas City Kings (predecessor of the Sacramento Kings ) secured the rights to Paterno in the third selection round in a total of 45th place in the draft process of the NBA . Paterno did not play an NBA game. In the 1977/78 season Paterno was under contract with the Italian club Hurlingham Trieste. He also played as a professional in France. In 1997 he was inducted into the Sports Hall of Fame in his home region of Jersey Shore for his achievements as a basketball player.

As a coach he was in charge of the German Bundesliga club TuS Herten in the 1990/91 season and was then employed as a coach for the Italian club Montibasket Montichiari until 1997. Until 1992 Paterno was assistant coach of the local men's team in the second Italian league as well as youth coach, in 1992 he took over the head coaching position of the Montichiari men, which he occupied until 1996 and then was again assistant coach and coach in the junior division for a year. Between 1997 and 1999 Paterno was the coach of the Austrian Bundesliga club Swans Gmunden and led the teams into the quarter-finals of the championship round in both years.

Paterno returned to the United States for several years, from 2008 to 2010 he headed a basketball youth project in Italy and was introduced as the new coach of the Austrian second division BBU Salzburg in January 2010. In May 2010 he took over the coaching position at the Luxembourg second division club US Heffingen and led the team to promotion. He stayed in office until October 2011.

For the 2012/13 season Paterno, whose wife comes from Recklinghausen  , took up the position of coach at Citybasket Recklinghausen  (promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga ProB ). End of January 2013, came to separate, Paterno was but continued to work for the club at youth level as a coach, he was also the 2013/14 assistant coach of the syndicate metropolitan Baskets Ruhr in the junior basketball league (NBBL), and had 2017 / 18 in the team with Predrag Radanovic as coaching double head, the management of the Metropol Baskets in the NBBL.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Basketball Family Goes to the Hoop . ( nytimes.com [accessed October 6, 2018]).
  2. ^ Bill Paterno College Stats | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved October 6, 2018 .
  3. ^ Fine Line Websites & IT Consulting: Bill Paterno - The Draft Review. Retrieved October 6, 2018 (American English).
  4. ↑ LEGABASKET SERIE A LEGABASKET SERIE A. Retrieved October 6, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b c Bill Paterno and Predrag Radanovic take over the NBBL team of Metropol Baskets Ruhr - Citybasket Recklinghausen. Retrieved October 6, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Jersey Shore Sports Hall of Famers List. Retrieved October 6, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Westdeutsche Verlags- und Werbegesellschaft mbH & Co. KG: Dirk Ewald and Tobias Trutzenberg take over - Markus Horn is the new sports manager . In: lokalkompass.de . ( lokalkompass.de [accessed on October 6, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Coach Profile . In: www.eurobasket.com . ( eurobasket.com [accessed October 6, 2018]).
  9. ↑ basketswans.at - Chronicle. Retrieved October 6, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Basketball: BBU hired new coach . In: salzburg24.at . ( salzburg24.at [accessed on October 6, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Paterno succeeds Adam . In: mywort.lu . May 26, 2010 ( wort.lu [accessed October 6, 2018]).
  12. ↑ RTL NewMedia: RTL.lu - Le BC Heffingen licencie son coach . ( rtl.lu [accessed October 6, 2018]).
  13. ↑ The ProB season 2012/2013 . In: DZ . ( dorstenerzeitung.de [accessed on October 6, 2018]).
  14. ↑ "Era" Paterno is over . In: DZ . ( dorstenerzeitung.de [accessed on October 6, 2018]).
  15. ↑ By Meike Holz: Targeted promotion of young people . ( derwesten.de [accessed October 6, 2018]).
  16. ↑ http://www.schoenen-dunk.de/news_a62515_Jugend_Metropol-Baskets-Ruhr-starten-wieder-in-der-NBBL-und-JBBL.htm
personal data
SURNAME Paterno, Bill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball coach and former player
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Spring Lake, New Jersey