 Manuel Peña Garcés in time out during the National Cup Final 2015 | |
| Satria Muda Pertamina | |
|---|---|
| Position | Head coach |
| League | IBL |
| Personal information | |
| Born | 2 January 1983 Castellón de la Plana, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Coaching career | 2013–present |
| Career history | |
| As coach: | |
| 2013–2018 | Reading Rockets |
| 2016-2017, 2017-2018 | England U15 |
| 2018–2021 | Casademont Zaragoza (assistant) |
| 2021-2022 | Stadium Casablanca (technical director) |
| 2022–2023 | Gran Canaria (assistant) |
| 2023 | Shenzhen Leopards |
| 2023-present | Satria Muda Pertamina |
| Career highlights and awards | |
As head coach:
As assistent coach: | |
Manuel Peña Garcés (born 2 January 1983) is a Spanish basketball coach, who is currently the head coach of Satria Muda Pertamina of the Indonesian Basketball League (IBL). He was last coaching at Gran Canaria at Liga Endesa and the EuroCup as assistant coach alongside head coach Jaka Lakovic, they won the EuroCup title in 2023.
Coaching career
During 2021–2022 he served as Sporting Technical Director at Stadium Casablanca after serving three years at Basket Zaragoza as Assistant Coach in Liga Endesa. He spent five seasons at Reading Rockets in English NBL1 where they got different achievements (1 Regular League, 1 National Cup and 1 Trophy) arriving to different finals and increasing the structure of the club; meanwhile Manuel Pena was Head Coach and Technical Director.
He alsos served as the head coach of the U15 men's English National Team[1] in the years 2016–2017 and 2017–2018.
From 2011 through to 2018, he taught at the level 3 CES course for coaches under the Spanish Basketball Federation FEB.
Additionally, he is a co-founder of SportCoach, a platform focused on development, education, and training for coaches.
References
External links
- Interview Manuel Peña Preseason 2017-2018 BBC
- Article in Hoopsfix about National Team Coaching Staff 2017
- Article about the visit of JMA Reading Rockets Academy to Spanish Federation Museum 2017
- Article in the Reading Chronicle about Coaching Clinic in preseason 2016-2017
- Article about a life in the day of Basketball Coach 2015
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