Mike Coffin

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Mike Coffin in 2018

Michael Wayne "Mike" Coffin (born August 30, 1970 in Los Angeles ) is an Austrian basketball coach and former player of American origin. He is the head coach of the Kapfenberg Bulls . During his playing career he was under contract with clubs in Austria, Switzerland, Germany and Greece. In 2001 he took on Austrian citizenship.

career

player

The 1.94 meter tall player studied and played from 1988 to 1990 at Cerritos College and from 1990 to 1992 at Biola University (both in the US state of California ). In both of his Biola years, Coffin triumphed as an outstanding basket preparer and achieved an average of 8.2 assists per match. This put him at the top of the university team's all-time list of the best in this category. Coffin took part in a trial training session with the NBA club Utah Jazz in the summer of 1992 , but received no contract. He completed a year of study at California State University Dominguez Hills in 1993/94 before moving to Europe as a professional basketball player.

He started out in Germany, where he played for Wuppertal in the Regionalliga from 1993 to 1995 . In 1995 he went to the Bundesliga team Kapfenberg in Austria and developed into one of the stars of the league. He played in Kapfenberg until 2004 and became national champion with the team in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 under coach Michael Stepwieser .

At the beginning of the 2004/05 game year, Coffin had short stops in Greece at Ilysiakos Athens and in Germany at the second division club Düsseldorf Magics before he returned to Austria and joined the Wörthersee Pirates until the end of the season.

From 2005 to 2009 he was under contract with the Swiss national league team Starwings Basel .

Trainer

Between 2009 and 2015, Coffin worked as a coach (initially as a player-coach) for Mattersburg Rocks , in 2012, 2013 and 2014 the team won the second division championship under his leadership. In 2013 and 2014 he was named “Trainer of the Year” of the 2nd Bundesliga by the internet service eurobasket.com . From 2015 to 2017 he was the head coach of the Bundesliga club WBC Raiffeisen Wels , which he led to the Austrian runner-up in 2016.

In the summer of 2017 he was the head coach of Austria's U18 team. At the beginning of the 2017/18 season, Coffin took over the coaching position in Mattersburg again. Also in 2017 he was appointed assistant coach of the Austrian national team. At the end of December 2017, he moved to the head coach position at Kapfenberg Bulls, where he succeeded Michael Stepwieser. Coffin led the team to the cup victory in March 2018 and the championship title in June 2018, and the captain of the championship team was his son Marck .

In addition to his coaching position in Kapfenberg, he took over the post of Austrian national coach from June 2018. In March 2019, the Kapfenberg team won the Austrian cup competition again. The championship title was also defended in the 2018/19 game year. In the summer of 2019 he resigned after a one-year term as coach of the national team.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oberösterreichische Nachrichten: My vote comes by letter . ( nachrichten.at [accessed December 30, 2017]).
  2. ^ The Official Website for Biola University Eagles Athletics. Accessed December 30, 2017 (English).
  3. ↑ JAZZ CAMP OPENS WITH KNOWNS AND UNKNOWNS
     . In: DeseretNews.com . July 15, 1992 ( deseretnews.com [accessed December 30, 2017]).
  4. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-coffin-913ab64a/?locale=de_DE
  5. ^ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Basketball: Mike Coffin landed at Wörthersee . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed December 30, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Many years of international experience: Croatian veteran for the Starwings . In: bz Basel . July 10, 2017 ( bzbasel.ch [accessed December 30, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Mike Coffin returns . ( bvz.at [accessed December 30, 2017]).
  8. ↑ Austrian Basketball, Teams, Scores, Stats, News, Standings - eurobasket . In: www.eurobasket.com . ( eurobasket.com [accessed December 30, 2017]).
  9. ↑ Austrian Basketball, Teams, Scores, Stats, News, Standings - eurobasket . In: www.eurobasket.com . ( eurobasket.com [accessed December 30, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Mike Coffin is the new head coach at WBC Raiffeisen Wels. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 30, 2017 ; accessed on December 30, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oebl.at
  11. ^ Upper Austrian news: Gmunden caught Wels ice cold . ( nachrichten.at [accessed December 30, 2017]).
  12. ↑ U18 national team with Mike Coffin on the road at EM - Mattersburg Rocks basketball club. Retrieved December 30, 2017 .
  13. ↑ In conversation with master trainer Mike Coffin . ( bvz.at [accessed December 30, 2017]).
  14. ↑ Men's national team, Mike Coffin new assistant coach! - Mattersburg Rocks basketball club. Retrieved December 30, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Mike Coffin new head coach of ece bulls Kapfenberg! - News - ece Bulls. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 30, 2017 ; accessed on December 30, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ece-bulls.com
  16. ↑ Kapfenberg again cup winner - derStandard.at. In: The Standard. Retrieved March 27, 2019 .
  17. ^ Salzburger Nachrichten: Kapfenberg won the ABL title after crime thriller in Gmunden . ( sn.at [accessed June 14, 2018]).
  18. ↑ Dramatic finale: Kapfenberg again basketball champion . In: www.kleinezeitung.at . ( kleinezeitung.at [accessed on June 15, 2018]).
  19. ↑ New head coach for the ÖBV team. In: laola1.at. Retrieved March 27, 2019 .
  20. ↑ ORF at / Agencies red: Kapfenberg wins again Cuptitel against Gmunden. March 24, 2019, accessed March 27, 2019 .
  21. ↑ KAPFENBERG BULLS ARE AGAIN CHAMPIONS OF THE ADMIRAL BASKETBALL BUNDESLIGA. In: ADMIRAL Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved June 5, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Raoul Korner takes over the men's national team - Basketball Austria. Retrieved June 26, 2019 .

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SURNAME Coffin, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coffin, Michael Wayne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Austrian basketball coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles