Brendan Joyce - 'Jump for Joyce'

Coaching in Clubland

Brendan Joyce has been a wonderful servant of Australian Basketball as both a player and a coach in a career spanning over 40 years. Most notably, he was the coach of the Australian Women’s Basketball team from 2013 to 2016, leading the Opals to the Rio Olympics, while also previously being a long term assistant coach of the Australian Men’s Basketball team team from 2001 to 2009, where the Boomers played in two Olympic games, two Commonwealth Games and several World Championships over that period.

In the NBL, Brendan coached the Wollongong (now Illawarra) Hawks from 1995 to 2006, and led the club to their first championship in 2001. He also coached the now defunct Gold Coast Blaze in their start up period as a franchise, taking the Blaze immediately to the playoffs in his first year. Only recently has Brendan been appointed as the new coach of Kaohsiung Aquas in Taiwan, a challenge that he is very excited about. Brendan’s playing career wasn’t too shabby either, playing 289 NBL games from 1979 to 1991 as a point guard and being a two time NBL All Star team representative.