Vincent Collet

Vincent Collet

Vincent Collet in 2014
Strasbourg IG
Position	Head coach
League	French League Eurocup
Personal information
Born	(1963-06-06) June 6, 1963 Sainte-Adresse, France
Nationality	French
Listed height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Career information
Pro career	1980–1998
Position	Point guard / Shooting guard
Coaching career	1998–present
Career history
As player:
1980–1981	AL Montivilliers
1981–1985	Le Mans
1985–1986	Caen
1986–1990	ASVEL
1990–1994	Le Mans
1994–1998	Le Havre
As coach:
2000–2008	Le Mans
2008–2010	ASVEL
2011–present	Strasbourg IG
Career highlights and awards
As player: National 1 Champion (today known as LNB Pro A) with Le Mans (1982) As coach: 2× Semaine des As Champion (2006 with Le Mans, 2010 with the ASVEL) Semaine des As Finalist (2013 with Strasbourg) French Cup Champion (2004 with Le Mans) 2× LNB Pro A Champion (2006 with Le Mans, 2009 with the ASVEL) LNB Pro A Finalist (2013 with Strasbourg) 2× French League Coach of the Year (2001, 2004)
Medals World Cup Bronze 2014 Spain National Team FIBA EuroBasket Gold 2013 Slovenia National Team Silver 2011 Lithuania National Team

Vincent Collet (born June 6, 1963) is a French former professional basketball player and a current professional basketball coach. Currently, he is the head coach of the French League team Strasbourg IG, as well as the head coach of the senior men's French national basketball team.

Club coaching career

Collet first became a head coach in 2000, after a 13-year career as a basketball player in the Ligue Nationale de Basketball.^[1] He coached French squad Le Mans for six years, between the 2000-01 and 2006-07 seasons, leading the team to a 2006 French League championship and the French Cup in 2004, as well as the Semaine des As in 2006.^[2] While with the club, he was named the French League Coach of the Year in 2001 and 2004, before leaving the team in 2007.^[3] He returned to the French League in the 2008-09 season, where he promptly led ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne to the French League championship, their first since 2002.^[4]

French national team coaching career

Collet was hired as the senior men's French national basketball team coach in March 2009, following a disappointing qualifying run towards the EuroBasket 2009, that forced the team to qualify through the additional qualifying round.^[5] After successfully leading the French national team through the additional qualifying round, as the 16th and final EuroBasket qualifier, he coached the national team for the first time at EuroBasket 2009.^[6] He led the team to a fifth place finish, which was good enough to qualify for the 2010 FIBA World Championship. He coached France to the first gold medal of its history at Eurobasket 2013 in Slovenia.

References

Sporting positions
Preceded by Sergio Scariolo	FIBA EuroBasket Winning Coach 2013	Succeeded by Incumbent