Willie Montrel Young (born June 15, 1973) is an American professional

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coach and former professional basketball player.

Career

Young graduated from

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in 1992, before playing college basketball at

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(1992–95) and at the

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UT-Chattanooga, UTC, or Chattanooga) is a public university in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. It was founded in 1886 and is one of four universities and two other affiliated institutions in the ...

(1995–97). As a senior, he was the Mocs second-leading scorer (14.0ppg) and helped the team reach the 1997 NCAA Sweet Sixteen. He turned professional in 1998 and spent nine years playing overseas in the Netherlands, Israel, Belgium and Germany. As a rookie, Young helped

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win the Dutch national championship. Young, who spent the last three years of his playing days with the

Crailsheim Merlins The Crailsheim Merlins, for sponsorships reasons named Hakro Merlins Crailsheim, is a professional basketball club based in Crailsheim, Germany. Established in 1986, the club plays in the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL), the highest professional leag ...

in Germany's second-tier league 2. Bundesliga, suffered a career-ending knee injury in February 2007. 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. 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

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. He was sacked in November 2014 after a 1–8 season start. In August 2017, he was hired as head basketball coach for the Sequatchie County High School Indians in

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. Young worked there until 2019, in September 2020, he was appointed as boys basketball coach at Pajaro Valley High School in

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. Young coached the Pajaro Valley Grizzlies in the 2020-21 season.

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External links

Basketball Resume

Eurobasket profile
1973 births Living people American men's basketball coaches American expatriate basketball people in Germany American expatriate basketball people in the Netherlands American men's basketball players Chattanooga Mocs men's basketball players Crailsheim Merlins coaches Crailsheim Merlins players Den Helder Kings players Heroes Den Bosch players Dutch Basketball League players Landstede Hammers players {{1970s-US-basketball-bio-stub