Thomas Anthony "Tab" Baldwin (born 16 May 1958) is an American-New Zealand

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coach who currently serves as the head of the Gilas Pilipinas Youth national basketball program and head coach for the

Ateneo Blue Eagles The Ateneo Blue Eagles are the collegiate varsity teams of the Ateneo de Manila University that play in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP), the premiere collegiate league in the Philippines. The collegiate women's ...

of the

University Athletic Association of the Philippines The University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP), established in 1938, is an athletic association of eight Metro Manila universities in the Philippines. The eight-member schools are Adamson University (AdU), Ateneo de Manila Univers ...

(UAAP). Baldwin also served as a consultant of

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club team

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Coaching career

New Zealand

Baldwin was born in

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and played for the Bishop Kenny High School under the coaching of his father, who played basketball for Notre Dame in the 1930s. From

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, he went to New Zealand in 1988 to coach the

Otago Nuggets The Otago Nuggets are a New Zealand basketball team based in Dunedin. The Nuggets compete in the National Basketball League (NBL) and play their home games at the Edgar Centre. For sponsorship reasons, they are known as the Night 'n Day Otago ...

. He was promoted with them from the second division to the NBL and then joined the

Auckland Stars The Auckland Stars were a New Zealand basketball team based in Auckland. The Stars competed in the National Basketball League (NBL) and played their home games at ASB Stadium. Team history The Auckland Stars, then known as Auckland Metro, were ...

in 1994. In eight seasons with Auckland, he won five NBL titles (1995, 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2000), and was named NBL Coach of the Year four times (1995, 97, 99 and 2014). He remains the most victorious coach in the history of the New Zealand NBL. Baldwin's involvement continued with the Stars as a co-owner for another eight years after he left as coach. In 2001, he took the reins of the New Zealand national team. By winning the 2001 FIBA Oceania championship, the Tall Blacks — as New Zealand are known — qualified for the

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, and even reached the semi-finals; this is the best performance by an Oceania team in the history of the World Championships. Baldwin was appointed an Honorary

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in the

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, for services to basketball. For his achievements as coach of the New Zealand team, Baldwin was awarded the coach of the year at the Halberg awards — New Zealand's premier sports awards — for both 2001 and 2002.

Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan

Baldwin has coached Banvitspor in

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, PAOK Thessaloniki B.C. in

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and U Mobitelco Cluj in

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. On 16 April 2010, he was appointed as

Lebanon national basketball team Lebanon national basketball team can refer to: * Lebanon men's national basketball team ** Lebanon men's national under-19 basketball team ** Lebanon men's national under-17 basketball team * Lebanon women's national basketball team ** Lebanon wome ...

head coach., and on 15 August 2010 Lebanon won the

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with Baldwin as head coach. In June 2011, Baldwin was hired to coach the Jordanian national basketball team.

Philippines and Ateneo Blue Eagles

On 23 December 2014, the

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formally announced the appointment of Baldwin as head coach of the Philippine men's national team (popularly known as ''Gilas Pilipinas''), replacing

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. Baldwin's two-year tenure as coach officially began on 1 January 2015. On 7 December 2015,

Ateneo de Manila University , mottoeng = Light in the Lord , type = Private, research, non-profit, coeducational basic and higher education institution , established = December 10, 1859 , religious_affiliation = Roman Catholic ( Jesuits) , academic ...

formally announced the hiring of Baldwin as the head coach of its collegiate men's varsity basketball team. He will be coaching the Blue Eagles in between the 2016 Olympics men's basketball qualifying tournament and the qualifying rounds for the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup, concentrating on the national team during the UAAP offseason. A few days later, the Ateneo management reconsidered its decision to place Baldwin as the team's head coach following an objection by the Basketball Coaches of the Philippines, and instead was to be appointed as the collegiate team's consultant. On 18 October 2016, SBP executive director Sonny Barrios declared that

will return as head coach of Gilas while Baldwin will stay with the national team as the team's consultant, the same coaching setup the national team had during its historic 2013 FIBA Asia Championship and 2014 FIBA World Cup runs. On 3 December 2017, Baldwin led the

to their 9th

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against the De La Salle Green Archers. Baldwin won 2 more championships with Ateneo. In 2019, he coached the Blue Eagles to a 14-0 sweep of the elimination round of

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, with an average winning margin of 17.4 points per game. On 20 November, Ateneo completed the season sweep and won their third consecutive title with Baldwin by defeating the

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, 86-79. In May of the same year, Baldwin was also appointed as program director for the Philippine youth national team. In June 2021, Baldwin returned to take over as head coach of the Philippines, leading the Philippines to three wins out of three games in the final window of the

2021 FIBA Asia Cup qualification The 2022 FIBA Asia Cup qualification was a basketball competition that was played from February 2018 to August 2021, to determine the fifteen FIBA Asia-Oceania nations who would join the automatically qualified host Indonesia at the 2022 FIBA As ...

, completing a sweep for ''Gilas''. However, weeks before the first window of the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification, Baldwin stepped down from his post as ''Gilas'' coach, choosing to focus on Ateneo's campaign for the

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. He was replaced by

Summary

*League Coaching Career: **

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, 1983–86 ** UCF -

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, 1986–88 **

- NBL, 1988–90 **

- NBL, 1994–2001 ** Perak Red Eagles - MNBL, 1996–1997 ** Banvitspor -

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, 2004–06 ** PAOK Thessaloniki B.C. - A1, 2007–08 ** U Mobitelco Cluj - Divizia A, Dec 2007 - Jun 2009 ** Kepez Belediyesi S.K. -

, Sep 2009-Dec 2009 **

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, 2010–12 ** Fujian Xunxing ( China, 2012–13) **

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(New Zealand, 2013) *International Coaching Career: **Head coach of

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(2001–06) **Head coach of

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(1996) **Head coach of

(2010–2011) **Head coach of Jordanian national basketball team (2011–2012) **Head coach of Philippines men's national basketball team (2015–2016, 2021) *Other Basketball Ventures: **Team Consultant of Philippines men's national basketball team (2013–2014, 2016–present) **Team Consultant of

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- PBA (2014–2016, 2018–2020) **Team Consultant of Ateneo de Manila University Blue Eagles - UAAP (2016) **Head coach of Ateneo de Manila University Blue Eagles - UAAP (2016–present) **Head of the Gilas Pilipinas Youth national basketball program

Personal life

Baldwin was previously married to Efthymia, originally from Greece. Efi is the owner-operator of a touring business, ''Definitely Greece'', with tours of Greece and the Greek islands. Baldwin is committed to reside in the Philippines at least until 2019.

Coaching record

Domestic Leagues

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1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicist ...

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1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson ...

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1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake str ...

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1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

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1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...

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2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...

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2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

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Fujian Sturgeons Fujian SBS Xunxing Sturgeons (Simplified Chinese: 福建SBS浔兴鲟) or Fujian Xunxing or Fujian SBS are a Chinese professional men's basketball team in the Chinese Basketball Association, based in Jinjiang, Quanzhou, Fujian. The "SBS" reflects c ...

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2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fa ...

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Collegiate record

References

External links

Basketball New Zealand profile
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