Vincent Lavandier

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Vincent Lavandier
Personal information
Born (1972-02-10) February 10, 1972 (age 52)
NationalityFrench
Coaching career2000–present
Career history
As coach:
2000–2001Poissy Yvelines (assistant)
2002–2003 Paris Basket Racing (assistant)
2003–2006 Élan Chalon (assistant)
2006–2007Trappes
2007–2008Lagardere Paris
2009–2012 JL Bourg Basket (assistant)
2012–2017Angers
2017–2018Tarbes-Lourdes
2019–2020 Glasgow Rocks
2020–2021US Avignon-Pontet
2022 Montreal Alliance

Vincent Lavandier (born February 10, 1972) is a French basketball coach. He was most recently the head coach of the Montreal Alliance of the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL).

Career

Lavandier spent much of his early coaching career in his homeland, learning as an assistant under Jacques Monclar at Paris Basket Racing and Grégor Beugnot at Élan Chalon. [1]

He took his first full head coaching role with Trappes in the NM1 league in 2006. He spent time as head coach of Lagardere Paris in Women's National 1 and then three years as an assistant coach at JL Bourg Basket. [2] Lavandier took over at Angers in 2012, and led them to the NM1 title in 2014 and promotion to LNB Pro B. [3] In June 2017, Lavandier became head coach of Union Tarbes-Lourdes. [4]

In February 2019, Lavandier was appointed interim head coach of the Glasgow Rocks, for the remainder of the 2018–19 season. [5] In April 2019, he signed a deal to remain head coach until the end of the 2020–21 season. [6] He was voted Coach of the Year for the 2019–2020 season by the Basketball Journalists Association. [7]

On March 8, 2022, Lavandier signed as head coach of the Montreal Alliance, an expansion team in the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL). [8] On January 23, 2023, the Alliance announced that he would not return after posting a 4-16 record in 2022. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "Vincent Lavandier". Edusport Academy. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  2. ↑ "Basket Pro B - Vincent Lavandier quitte la JL en fin de saison". lavoixdelain.fr. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  3. ↑ "BeBasket : actualité du basket en France et en Europe : Le coach Vincent Lavandier des Glasgow Rocks à Avignon ?". bebasket.fr. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  4. ↑ "NM1 – Vincent Lavandier nouvel entraîneur de l'Union Tarbes-Lourdes : Basket31.tv". basket31.tv. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  5. ↑ "Rocks appoint Lavandier as interim head coach - British Basketball League". bbl.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  6. ↑ "Rocks secure Lavandier Long Term". Glasgow Rocks. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  7. ↑ "Leedham and PJC Head Season Honours". mvp247.com. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  8. ↑ "Vincent Lavandier tabbed as Montreal Alliance's first head coach". montrealgazette. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
  9. ↑ "L'entraîneur Vincent Lavandier ne sera pas de retour". lapresse (in Canadian French). Retrieved 15 Feb 2023.
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