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Manuel Pena Garces

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Manuel Peña Garcés
Manuel Peña Garcés in time out during the National Cup Final 2015
Kagoshima Rebnise
PositionHead coach
LeagueB.League
Personal information
Born (1983-01-02) 2 January 1983 (age 41)
Castellón de la Plana, Spain
Coaching career2013–present
Career history
As coach:
2013–2018Reading Rockets
2016-2017, 2017-2018England U15
2018–2021Casademont Zaragoza (assistant)
2021-2022Stadium Casablanca (technical director)
2022–2023Gran Canaria (assistant)
2023Shenzhen Leopards
2024Satria Muda Pertamina
2024-presentKagoshima Rebnise
Career highlights and awards
As head coach:

As assistant coach:

Manuel Peña Garcés (born 2 January 1983) is a Spanish basketball coach, who is currently the head coach of Kagoshima Rebnise of the B.League. He was last coaching at Satria Muda Pertamina of the Indonesian Basketball League (IBL) and 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

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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

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  1. ^ "Squad U15M Basketball England 2018".


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