Billy Donovan Returns To Lead 2015 USA U19 World Championship Team -- Ed Cooley, Sean Miller Also Back After Assisting 2014 U18 Team To Gold --
Basketball Men’s U18 National Team to a dominating run through the FIBA Americas U18 Championship en route to a 5-0 record and the gold medal, USA Basketball announced the return of the entire coaching staff to lead the 2015 USA Basketball Men’s U19 World Championship Team, headed by University of Florida head coach Billy Donovan and assisted by college head coaches Ed Cooley from Providence College and Sean Miller from the University of Arizona.
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fter helping coach the 2014 USA
held June 27-July 5 in Crete, Greece. Donovan, who becomes the USA’s
first repeat U19 head coach, owns an unblemished 19-0 record as a USA Basketball head coach, after also having led the 2013 USA U19 World Championship Team to a perfect 9-0 record and the gold medal in Prague, Czech Republic, and the 2012 USA U18 National Team to a 5-0 slate and gold in Sao Sebastiáo do Paraiso, Brazil.. “USA Basketball has been a first-
The USA 2014 Men’s U18 National Team coaching staff consisting of Billy Donovan (middle), Ed Cooley (left) and Sean Miller (right) will return to lead the 2015 USA U19 World Championship Team.
“Our U19 team is going to really
benefit from another year with Coach Donovan, Coach Cooley and Coach Miller,” said Jim Boeheim, USA Basketball Junior National Team
Committee chair. “They had great success last summer, winning the gold medal, and we’re confident the squad is going to continue to improve with this staff in place.
Defending U19 gold medalists, the
USA squad will attempt to replicate that feat at the 2015 FIBA U19 World Championship for Men, which will be
class organization to be a part of over the past several years, and it is an honor to be able to come back and represent our country again this summer,” said two- time NCAA champion Donovan, who was named a co-recipient of the 2013 USA Basketball Developmental National Coach of the Year award. “Sean Miller and Ed Cooley are both great guys and excellent coaches. It was very rewarding for me working side by side with them on the U18 team last summer, and it will be great to have that continuity with the staff again with the U19 team.”
Don Showalter Back As USA Basketball U16 National Team Head Coach -- Miles Simon, Sharman White To Serve As U16 Assistant Coaches --
Iowa) will return as head coach for the 2015 USA Basketball Men’s U16 National Team that will compete in the FIBA Americas U16 Championship in the hopes of earning a berth in the 2016 FIBA U17 World Championship. Selected to assist Showalter and the 2015 USA U16 squad are prep head coaches Miles Simon (California Supreme AAU) and Sharman White (Miller Grove H.S., Ga.), both of whom tackle their first assignment as a USA Basketball assistant coach after serving stints as a court coach at a USA Junior National Team training camp. “The committee felt that Don
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Showalter has done a tremendous job with the USA Junior National Team over the past six years and that having continuity within the program has been a key to the success of our teams,” said
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ix-time USA Basketball gold medalist head coach Don Showalter (Iowa City H.S.,
Sean Ford, director of USA Basketball’s men’s national team program and chair of the USA Developmental National Team Committee. “Miles Simon and Sharman White are both very accom- plished coaches in their own right. Miles has played internationally and did a great job helping prepare our 2012 USA U17 World Championship Team during its training camp. Sharman was a court coach last fall during the USA Junior National Team mini-camp and he fit right in with USA Basketball and its philosophy of trying to prepare athletes for future success. We feel this coaching staff will continue to build on the winning culture created by the previous coaching staffs.” The 2015 FIBA Americas U16
Championship will be held June 10-14 in Bahia Blanca, Argentina. The top four finishing teams will earn a berth to the 2016 FIBA U17 World Championship. “For me, this gets more exciting
every year because you get a new group coming in,” said Showalter, who has directed USA teams to six gold medal finishes as head coach of the USA Basketball Junior National Team since 2009. “I’m just thrilled to be a part of it again. It’s been a great, great experience from my standpoint. I’m very blessed to be a part of the USA Basketball U16 National Team again. “I depend a lot on the assistant coach-
es to give me feedback and to help with the development of the kids, and both Miles and Sharman are proven coaches with their high school and AAU teams. They work very, very well with players. That’s what you want, assistant coaches who work really well with players, who develop great relationships with them as well. I’m looking forward to working with them. Once again it’s going to be an outstanding staff. We’ve had great staffs the previous years, and I think this staff will be right up there with the rest of them.”
USA Basketball News
Garrett Ellwood
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