Brendan Joyce

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Brendan Joyce
Guard
Coaching career1996–present
Career history
As player:
1979–1982Nunawading Spectres
1983–1984St. Kilda Saints
1985–1987Nunawading / Eastside Spectres
1988–1990Westside Saints
1991Brisbane Bullets
As coach:
1996–2007Illawarra / Wollongong Hawks
2007–2009Gold Coast Blaze
2021–presentKaohsiung Aquas
Career highlights and awards
As coach:

Brendan Joyce (born 1 May 1960)

Kaohsiung City
in Taiwan.

Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Brendan Joyce grew up playing both basketball and

National Basketball League, coaching in more than 400 games.[2]

NBL Playing career

Brendan Joyce began his senior

Melbourne Tigers (1985), 19 assists vs. Sydney Kings 1985 and 8 three-point shots made vs. Hobart Devils
(1990).

NBL Coaching career

Brendan Joyce began his professional

NBL (Australia) Coach of the Year in 1999 and 2001 and as a NBL All Star Coach in 2005.[3] In 2007–08 Brendan Joyce became the inaugural coach of the Gold Coast Blaze[4] and kept on winning. Brendan Joyce lead the Gold Coast to the playoffs in their first year and the Blaze team became the first ever Gold Coast team to make the play-offs in any Australian national competition.[5]
Brendan Joyce was named the 2008
NBL (Australia) Coach of the Year
. In the 2008–09 season the team missed the playoffs due to an injury-ridden season.

Australian Basketball Coach

In 2001 Brendan Joyce was named as Assistant Coach to the Australian men's national team the

2006 FIBA World Championships in Japan and assisting in leading the Boomers to their Gold Medal win at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in his home town Melbourne. In May 2013 Joyce was hired to be the Australian women's national team coach through the 2016 Olympics.[6]
Australian Opals win Bronze medal at the 2014 World Championships in Turkey.

Taiwan

Joyce joined the

Taichung Wagor Suns.[17][18][19] On June 24, 2022, Joyce received the Coach of the Year award in 2021–22 T1 League season.[20]

Awards

NBL awards

  • National Basketball League (Australasia)
    Most Assists Award Winner 1988
  • NBL (Australia) All-Star Game
    Player 1988 and 1989
  • NBL (Australia) Coach of the Year
    1999 and 2001
  • NBL (Australia) All-Star Game
    Coach 2005
  • NBL (Australia) Coach of the Year
    Runner-up 2005 and 2008
  • National Basketball League (Australasia)
    Champions 2001
  • National Basketball League (Australasia)
    Championship Runner-up 2005

National recognition

  • Australian Boomers Squad member (1981/1982/1988)
  • Australian U23 Captain (1981)
  • Australian U20 team (1978–79)
  • Australian Men's Team Assistant Coach (2001–2009)
  • Oceania Series (2003, 2005, 2007)
  • Olympic Games Athens (2004)
  • World Championships Japan (2006)
  • Commonwealth Games Melbourne 2006 Gold Medalist
  • Olympic Games Beijing (2008)
  • Australian Women's Team Head Coach (2013–2016)
  • Oceania Women's Champions (2013, 2015)
  • Bronze Medal Women's World Championships Turkey 2014 5 wins & 1 Loss
  • 5th Place Olympics Rio 2016 5 wins & 1 loss

References

  1. ^ "Brendan Joyce". Aussie Hoopla. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Joyce jumps into elite company". Archived from the original on 9 May 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2010.
  3. ^ Coach of the Year
  4. Television New Zealand
    . 18 January 2007. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
  5. ^ "Joyce Gold Coast Coach of the Year".
  6. ^ Feinberg, Doug (15 May 2013). "Former Boomers assistant Brendan Joyce appointed head coach of Aussie women's basketball team". foxnews.com. Associated Press. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  7. ^ "Fil-Am guard Jason Brickman eyes T1 LEAGUE championship trophy". Central News Agency. 23 November 2021. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
  8. ^ "Kaohsiung Aquas take T1 LEAGUE opener in thriller". Central News Agency. 27 November 2021. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
  9. ^ "Fil-Am Jason Brickman putting on clinic in Taiwan's T1 LEAGUE". Central News Agency. 7 December 2021. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
  10. ^ Yen, William (30 December 2021). "T1 LEAGUE to end 2021 with top-two showdown". Central News Agency. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
  11. ^ Yen, William (4 January 2022). "INTERVIEW/Brendan Joyce from Down Under makes splash with Kaohsiung Aquas". Central News Agency. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
  12. ^ Yen, William (4 April 2022). "P. LEAGUE+ & T1 LEAGUE/Kaohsiung Aquas top GhostHawks, stay on top in T1 League". Central News Agency. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
  13. ^ Yen, William (20 May 2022). "P. LEAGUE+ & T1 LEAGUE/Fil-Am point guard Jason Brickman sets new assists record in T1 LEAGUE". Central News Agency. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
  14. ^ Yen, William (14 February 2022). "Kaohsiung Aquas raise T1 LEAGUE single-game record to 133 points". Central News Agency. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
  15. ^ "P. LEAGUE+ & T1 LEAGUE/Kaohsiung Aquas bag another win, poised to secure season's top spot". Central News Agency. 16 April 2022. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
  16. ^ Yen, William (18 April 2022). "P. LEAGUE+ & T1 LEAGUE/Kaohsiung Aquas clinch T1 LEAGUE regular-season crown". Central News Agency. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
  17. ^ Yen, William (31 May 2022). "P. LEAGUE+ & T1 LEAGUE/Aquas Kevin Hu hits clutch trey to clinch Game 1 of T1 LEAGUE final series". Central News Agency. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
  18. ^ Yen, William (2 June 2022). "Kaohsiung Aquas bag another win, close in on inaugural T1 LEAGUE title". Central News Agency. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
  19. ^ Yen, William (4 June 2022). "Kaohsiung Aquas make history as first-ever T1 LEAGUE champion". Central News Agency. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
  20. ^ Yen, William (24 June 2022). "P. LEAGUE+ & T1 LEAGUE/Brendan Joyce from Down Under named T1 LEAGUE coach of the year". Central News Agency. Retrieved 25 June 2022.

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