Billy Donovan Named Head Coach of 2015 USA Basketball Men’s U19 World Championship Team
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 | Men's Basketball
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Billy Donovan will return to the sideline for USA Basketball this summer and lead the 2015 USA Basketball Men's U19 World Championship Team. USA Basketball also announced on Tuesday that Sean Miller of Arizona and Ed Cooley of Providence will serve as Donovan's assistants, reuniting the staff that led the 2014 USA Basketball Men's U18 National Team to a 5-0 record and gold medal at the FIBA Americas U18 Championship.
“USA Basketball has been a first-class organization to be a part of over the past several years, and it is an honor to be able to come back and represent our country again this summer,” said Donovan, who was named a co-recipient of the 2013 USA Basketball Developmental National Coach of the Year award. “Sean Miller and Ed Cooley are both great guys and excellent coaches. It was very rewarding for me working side by side with them on the U18 team last summer, and it will be great to have that continuity with the staff again with the U19 team.”
Defending U19 gold medalists, the USA squad will attempt to replicate that feat at the 2015 FIBA U19 World Championship for Men, which will be held June 27-July 5 in Crete, Greece.
Donovan, who becomes the USA's first repeat U19 head coach, owns an unblemished 19-0 record as a USA Basketball head coach, after also having led the 2013 USA U19 World Championship Team to a perfect 9-0 record and the gold medal in Prague, Czech Republic, and the 2012 USA U18 National Team to a 5-0 slate and gold in Sao Sebastiáo do Paraiso, Brazil.
The coaching staff was selected by the USA Basketball Junior National Team Committee, which is chaired by Syracuse University head coach Jim Boeheim, and approved by the USA Basketball Board of Directors.
