Patrick Hunt (basketball coach)
Australian basketball coach
Patrick Hennessy Hunt AM (born 7 March 1953) is a leading Australian basketball coach particularly in the field of player and coach development.
Coaching career
Australia
Hunt commenced his coaching career in the New South Wales regional town Tamworth. Hunt then progressed to coaching New South Wales state teams from 1972. Results for these teams were: gold medal for U20 Men's in 1979 and silver medals for U16 Men in 1972, U16 Men in 1973 and U20 Country Men in 1978. In 1981, he was appointed Head Coach of the National Basketball League team the Canberra Cannons. He held this position until he was appointed Men's Basketball Coach with the Australian Institute of Sport in July 1981, a position he held until 1993. During this period, with Head Coach Adrian Hurley, Hunt coached future Australian Olympic players including Mark Dalton, Luc Longley, Shane Heal, Mark Bradtke, Andrew Vlahov and Brett Maher.
In the early 1980s, Hunt completed a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Sports Studies from the University of Canberra.
From 1993 to 2008, Hunt was the Manager of National Player and Coach Development for Basketball Australia and Head Coach of the National Intensive Training Centre Program. In this role, Hunt assisted in developing an 'Australian way' of coaching and playing basketball and players to come out of this development included Lauren Jackson, Penny Taylor, Andrew Bogut, Patty Mills and Matthew Dellavedova.
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