Willie Young (basketball)

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Willie Young
Personal information
Born (1973-06-15) June 15, 1973 (age 49)
NationalityAmerican
Career information
NBA draft 1998 / Undrafted
Playing career1998–2008
Position Head coach
Coaching career2008–present
Career history
As player:
1998 Den Helder
1999–2000 EBBC Den Bosch
2000–2001 Landstede Zwolle
2001–2003Lich Basket
2003–2008 Crailsheim Merlins
As coach:
2008–2012 Crailsheim Merlins (youth)
2012–2014Crailsheim Merlins
2017–2019 Sequatchie County High School
2020–2021 Pajaro Valley High School
Career highlights and awards
As player:

Willie Montrel Young (born June 15, 1973) is an American professional basketball coach and former professional basketball player.

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Career

Young graduated from Norview High School [1] in 1992, before playing college basketball at Brevard Community College (1992–95) [2] and at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (1995–97). As a senior, he was the Mocs second-leading scorer (14.0ppg) [3] and helped the team reach the 1997 NCAA Sweet Sixteen. [4]

He turned professional in 1998 and spent nine years playing overseas in the Netherlands, Israel, Belgium and Germany. As a rookie, Young helped BV Den Helder win the Dutch national championship. Young, who spent the last three years of his playing days with the Crailsheim Merlins in Germany's second-tier league 2. Bundesliga, suffered a career-ending knee injury in February 2007. [5]

In 2008, Young began his coaching career as head coach of Crailsheim's development squad, while also coaching in the club's youth ranks. In August 2012, Young was promoted to the head coaching position at Crailsheim's first team in the ProA league. [6] In 2014, he guided the Merlins to a second-place finish in the ProA regular season and to an appearance in the finals, which earned his team promotion to Germany's top-flight Basketball Bundesliga. [7] He was sacked in November 2014 after a 1–8 season start. [8]

In August 2017, he was hired as head basketball coach for the Sequatchie County High School Indians in Dunlap, Tennessee. [9] Young worked there until 2019, in September 2020, he was appointed as boys basketball coach at Pajaro Valley High School in Watsonville, California. [10] Young coached the Pajaro Valley Grizzlies in the 2020-21 season. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ Rubama, Larry. "A look at All-Tidewater boys, girls hoop teams". Virginian-Pilot. Retrieved 2017-02-24.
  2. ↑ "Mocs Are Causing Big Waves". tribunedigital-orlandosentinel. Retrieved 2017-02-24.
  3. ↑ "Chattanooga - Season Statistics". stats.gomocs.com. Retrieved 2017-02-24.
  4. ↑ "Wiedmer: Former Moc from 1997 Sweet 16 team returns 19 years later to graduate". timesfreepress.com. Retrieved 2017-02-24.
  5. ↑ "Willie Young vor zweiter Karriere". schoenen-dunk.de. Retrieved 2017-02-24.
  6. ↑ "Willie Young neuer Trainer der Merlins - STIMME.de". www.stimme.de. Retrieved 2017-02-24.
  7. ↑ Germany, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Stuttgart. "Basketball – Crailsheim Merlins: Das Märchen der Zauberer". stuttgarter-nachrichten.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-02-24.
  8. ↑ GmbH, Südwest Presse Online-Dienste (2014-11-17). "Enskat übernimmt: Headcoach Willie Young sitzt nicht mehr auf der Trainerbank". swp.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-02-24.
  9. ↑ "Sequatchie County High School hires new basketball coaches". timesfreepress.com. 2017-08-06. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  10. ↑ "Former pro Willie Young, 47, named head coach at Pajaro Valley". Santa Cruz Sentinel. 2020-09-18. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  11. ↑ "Pajaro Valley Basketball History". Maxpreps. Retrieved 2023-02-15.


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