Don Beck (basketball coach)

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Don Beck (born June 2, 1953 in New York City ) is an American basketball coach .

career

Beck began his coaching career in 1978 as an assistant coach at Santa Barbara City College in the US state of California , where he was in office until 1981. His other positions as assistant coach were Bentley College in Massachusetts , Rutgers University in New Jersey and Fresno State University (California) until 1990 . In 1989 he took over the post of head coach of the women's team at Santa Barbara City College, from 1990 he served as head coach at Fresno State on an ad interim basis.

In 1992 Beck ventured to Europe and became the coach of the Belgian first division team Sunair Oostende . After a season in Belgium, he returned to the USA for the time being, then accepted an offer from Germany in 1994 and took up the position of head coach at the Bundesliga club TVG Trier . In 1998 he led the team to win the DBB Cup and the playoff semi-finals, and in 2001 they were again cup winners. At that time, his squad included players who are among the biggest names in Trier basketball history, such as Carl Brown , Bernard Thompson , Keith Gray and James Marsh .

“It was great years. We achieved a lot on a small budget - not just the cup wins. We did well in European competitions and we often reached the play-offs. In 1998 we had a real chance of becoming German champions, ”said Beck in an interview with the newspaper Volksfreund in August 2011, looking back on his tenure in Trier.

In 2001 he signed with Bundesliga competitor EWE Baskets Oldenburg , for whom he worked until mid-May 2007. He then looked after the Belgian first division club Euphony Bree and from January 2009 to April 2010 the Dutch Eredivisie club Eiffel Towers Den Bosch , with whom he won the 2009 cup.

Between 2010 and 2015 Beck was the coach of Toyota Alvark in Japan and led the team to the JBL championship in 2012 . That earned him the title of coach of the year that same season. From 2015 he was the head coach of the Japanese women's team Toyota Antelopes. He stayed in office until 2018. For the 2018/19 season he switched back to the men's division and took over the coaching position at the Toyama Grouses in Japan.

Private life

Beck and his German wife, who comes from the Trier area, have two daughters.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A portrait of EWE coach Don Beck. schoenen-dunk.de, accessed on February 9, 2017 .
  2. ↑ volksfreund.de: What is .. Don Beck doing? - volksfreund.de. Retrieved February 9, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Don Beck (ex-Bree) aan de slag bij EiffelTowers Den Bosch . In: HLN . January 7, 2009 ( hln.be [accessed February 11, 2017]).
  4. ↑ a b Kaz Nagatsuka: Beck, Oga looking to change women's basketball culture . In: The Japan Times Online . October 18, 2015, ISSN  0447-5763 ( japantimes.co.jp [accessed February 9, 2017]).
  5. ↑ https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2018/07/05/basketball/b-league/globetrotting-rickert-reaches-end-line/#.W1tKe635w4Y
personal data
SURNAME Beck, Don
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City