Manuel Peña Garcés (born January 2, 1983, in
Castellón de la Plana) is a Spanish basketball coach, who is currently the Coach of
Satria Muda Pertamina of the
Indonesian Basketball League (IBL), he was last in
Gran Canaria at
Liga Endesa
The Liga ACB, known as Liga Endesa for sponsorship reasons, is the top professional basketball division of the Spanish basketball league system. Administrated by the Asociación de Clubs de Baloncesto (ACB), Liga ACB is contested by 18 teams, wi ...
and
Eurocup as assistant coach alongside
Jaka Lakovic. In 2022-2023 they won the Eurocup title.
During 2021–2022 he served as Sporting Technical Director at
Stadium Casablanca after serving three years at
Basket Zaragoza as Assistant Coach i
Liga Endesa He spent five seasons at
Reading Rockets in English NBL1 where they got different achievements (1 Regular League, 1 National Cup and 1 Trophy) arriving to different finals and increasing the structure of the club; meanwhile Manuel Pena was Head Coach and Technical Director.
He alsos served as the head coach of the U15 men's English National Team
in the years 2016–2017 and 2017–2018.
From 2011 through to 2018, he taught at the level 3 CES course for coaches under the
Spanish Basketball Federation
The Spanish Basketball Federation ( es, Federación Española de Baloncesto; FEB) is the governing body of basketball in Spain. It is based in Madrid, Spain. It was founded on 31 July 1923 as ''Federación Española de Basketball'' in Barcelona, S ...
FEB.
Additionally, he is a co-founder o
SportCoach a platform focused on development, education, and training for coaches.
References
External Articles
Interview Manuel Peña Preseason 2017-2018 BBCArticle in Hoopsfix about National Team Coaching Staff 2017Article about the visit of JMA Reading Rockets Academy to Spanish Federation Museum 2017Article in the Reading Chronicle about Coaching Clinic in preseason 2016-2017Article about a life in the day of Basketball Coach 2015
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pena Garces, Manuel
Basketball coaches
1983 births
Living people