Víctor Antonio Lapeña Tortosa (born 12 March 1975, in Zaragoza) is a Spanish basketball coach who is the head coach of the Canada women's national basketball team.
Club career
He coached several teams in Spain, both in the second tier league (2003-2008) and the first tier league (2008-2018). He won the Spanish League in the 2012-13 season, and the 2014 Spanish Cup with CB Avenida.[1]
In the 2018-2019 season he coached his first team abroad, Nadezhda Orenburg from the Russian Premier League, winning the second-tier 2018–19 EuroCup Women. On 29 June 2019 he signed for Turkish club Fenerbahçe[2]
National team
Lapeña has worked with the Spanish Basketball Federation as both assistant and head coach in the youth teams and the senior team, winning a total of 14 medals.[3] In November 2015 he was the head coach of the senior team for two games.[4]
2007 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship (youth) (assistant coach)
2007 Eurobasket (senior) (assistant coach)
2009 Eurobasket (senior) (assistant coach)- 8th 2010 FIBA Under-17 World Championship (youth) (head coach)
- 2011 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (youth) (assistant coach)
2012 FIBA Under-17 World Championship (youth) (head coach)- 2013 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (youth) (head coach)
2013 Eurobasket (senior) (assistant coach)- 2014 FIBA Under-17 World Championship (youth) (head coach)
2014 World Championship (senior) (assistant coach)- 2015 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (youth) (head coach)
- 2015 Eurobasket (senior) (assistant coach)
- 7th 2016 FIBA Under-17 World Championship (youth) (head coach)
2016 Summer Olympics (senior) (assistant coach)- 2017 Eurobasket (senior) (assistant coach)
2018 World Championship (senior) (assistant coach)
References
- ^ "Victor Lapena Basketball Coach Profile, Mann Filter Zaragoza, staff, biography, career - eurobasket.com". www.eurobasket.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-19. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
- ^ "Víctor Lapeña: "Entrenar al Fenerbahçe es entrar en otra dimensión"". www.gigantes.com.
- ^ Aragón, Heraldo de. "Víctor Lapeña, el coleccionista de medallas". heraldo.es. Archived from the original on 2018-08-14. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
- ^ "Mondelo no dirigirá a la selección femenina en el PreEuropeo". Marca.com. Archived from the original on 13 September 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2019. (in Spanish)
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