Brendan Joyce

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Brendan Joyce
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Joyce in 2016
Personal information
Born (1960-05-01) 1 May 1960 (age 64)
Melbourne, Australia
Listed height178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Listed weight79 kg (174 lb)
Career information
Playing career1979–1991
Position Guard
Coaching career1996–present
Career history
As player:
1979–1982 Nunawading Spectres
1983–1984 St. Kilda Saints
1985–1987Nunawading / Eastside Spectres
1988–1990Westside Saints
1991 Brisbane Bullets
As coach:
1996–2007 Illawarra / Wollongong Hawks
2007–2009 Gold Coast Blaze
2021–2024 Kaohsiung Aquas
Career highlights and awards
As coach:

Brendan Joyce (born December 1960) [1] is an Australian professional basketball coach. He has coached all levels of the game. He has been to 3 Olympic Games with both the Australian men's Boomers team 2004, 2008 and women's Opals team 2016 and 2 world championships for Boomers men 2006 in Japan and Opals women in 2014 (bronze medal). Joyce was also assistant coach of the Boomers at the Melbourne Commonwealth games Gold medal team. Brendan is a former professional basketball player and head coach of the National Basketball League (Australasia) the Wollongong Hawks and the Gold Coast Blaze. In October 2021, Joyce took up the Head Coach role at new T1 League franchise Kaohsiung Aquas in Kaohsiung City in Taiwan.

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Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Brendan Joyce grew up playing both basketball and Australian rules football and received an invitation to train and play for the North Melbourne Kangaroos.[ citation needed ] Brendan Joyce decided to continue with basketball and played in the National Basketball League. Joyce played a total of 289 games in the NBL over 13 seasons, playing for the Nunawading Spectres, St. Kilda Saints and finally for the Brisbane Bullets in 1991. Joyce captained both Nunawading and the Westside Saints. Following his playing career, Brendan Joyce became one of the most successful coaches in the National Basketball League, coaching in more than 400 games. [2]

NBL Playing career

Brendan Joyce began his senior National Basketball League playing career in 1979 with the Nunawading Spectres in the National Basketball League's inaugural year. He was a point guard with the Nunawading Spectres team that lost to Launceston Casino City in the 1981 NBL Grand Final. Joyce was renowned for his defensive play and ability to penetrate and create opportunities for his teammates and was an all time NBL league leader in assists for many years. His career highs were 32 points vs. 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 National Basketball League (Australasia) coaching career in 1996 with the Wollongong Hawks and developed the Hawks program with young players such as Glen Saville, David Andersen and CJ Bruton, who all later in their career became Olympians. After a losing record in his first two seasons, coach Joyce then lead the Hawks from the bottom to become a consistent winning team. Brendan Joyce coached the Wollongong Hawks to their first NBL championship defeating the Townsville Crocodiles in 2001. After 23 years in the National Basketball League, the Wollongong Hawks also became the first New South Wales team to win the NBL Championship. This success was followed by another grand final berth in 2005 with a loss to the Sydney Kings. The Brendan Joyce tenure at the Hawks delivered him the 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 Gold Coast Region Coach of the Year and was again a runner up for the NBL (Australia) Coach of the Year.

Australian Basketball Coach

In 2001 Brendan Joyce was named as Assistant Coach to the Australian men's national team the Boomers and continued this role until 2009. Brendan Joyce worked at two Olympic Games, 2004 in Athens and 2008 in Beijing, as well as 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 Technical Director of the COE women's national programs and Australian Opals team Head coach through to 2016 Olympics. [6] Australian Opals win Bronze medal at the 2014 World Championships in Turkey.

Taiwan

Joyce joined the Kaohsiung Aquas in the first season of T1 League. [7] [8] The Aquas played well throughout the year, [9] [10] [11] [12] setting a number of individual and team records. [13] [14] The Aquas secured the number one seed prior to the playoffs, [15] [16] and won the T1 League's inaugural championship in a three-game sweep of 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] mid 2024, the Kaohsiung Aquas announced that Joyce left the team at the end of his 3 year tenure with top 3 finishes including the Championship in 2022. [21]

Awards

NBL awards

National recognition

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References

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  2. ↑ "Joyce jumps into elite company". Archived from the original on 9 May 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2010.
  3. ↑ Coach of the Year
  4. ↑ "Joyce to coach new franchise". 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". Fox News . 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.
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