Manuel Pena Garces
Manuel Peña Garcés (born January 2, 1983 in Castellón de la Plana) is a Spanish basketball coach, who is currently the Assistant Coach in Gran Canaria at Liga Endesa with Jaka Lakovic. 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 was also the head coach of the U15 men's English National Team[1] during 2016–2017 and 2017–2018.
He was teacher in the course for coaches level 3 CES for the Spanish Basketball Federation FEB from 2011 till 2018.
He is also cofounder of SportCoach, a website for development, learning and teaching for coaches.
References
External Articles
- 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