Manuel Peña Garcés
EDUCATION
2017-2019 FECC FIBA Course (in progress) / 2015 FIBA EU License Certificate 2015 Coach Certificate Level 3 by the Basketball England
2011 Masters FEB /Development/Practice/Tactics/Management/
2010 Coach Certificate Level 3 by the FEB – /Best Student Award/
2008 Coach Certificate Level 2 & 2007 Coach Certificate Level 1
2016-2017 NLP, Team Leading & Coaching PostGraduate (in progress)
2014-2015 Senior Executives Management Master
2010-2011 MBA /with distinction/
2008-2009 Erasmus Program at the University of Genova (Italy)
2003-2008 2:1 MEng Industrial Engineer. UJI Castellon (Spain)
SPORT CAREER AND AWARDS (I)
2013-2014/2014-2015/2015-2016/2016-2017/2017-2018
Head Coach at NBL1 Reading Rockets Men´s Team & Technical Director
• PlayOffs Runners Up 2016
• National Trophy Runners Up 2016
• National Cup Runners Up 2015
• Clubman of the Year 2015 at Reading Rockets
• Coach of the Year Award 2014 Reading Sport Personality Awards
• National Cup Winners 2014
• National Trophy Winners 2014
• NBL1 League Regular Season Winners 2014
• PlayOffs Runners Up 2014 • Runner Up Coach of the Year. Awarded by Basketball England 2014
• RPC Head Coach South Basketball England /Oct. 2013 to present/
• Senior Tutor/Mentor at FEB Spanish Basketball Federation • Head Coach U15M National Team Basketball England /From Dec. 2016/ – Denmark Invitational FIBA Tournament June 2017 Bronze Medal
• Assist. Coach at National Skills Camp for Nat Squad players for Basketball England – U16&U18 – male & female /2015 Feb/
• Assist. Coach at Spanish National Team U18M. – Guadalajara, Spain April 2015 Easter Camp – Gdansk, Poland Dec. 2014 International Tournament Winners – Barakaldo, Spain Dec. 2013 International Tournament Winners
• Participating in: – NBA Clinic in London /Jan. 2014 and Jan. 2017/ organised by NBA London – Head Coach at Gigantes Camp, Tres Cantos (Spain) /Jun. 2014, 2015 & 2016/ – Christmas Clinic in Shooting Gigantes Camp (Spain) Dec. 2016 – Top50 Deng Camp London /Aug.2015/
• Advised by Mark Bennet (September 2016 to present)
• Mentored by Jaume Ponsarnau (January 2016-March 2016)
• Christmas 2015 Following ACB Practices /Fuenlabrada & Estudiantes/ • Christmas 2016 Following ACB & LF1 Practices /Tecnyconta & Stm Casablanca/
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
• Basketball Coordinator/Coach in lower categories and summer camps /1998-2014/
• Publishing Basketball Articles at Media Sources (Spain) /2006-2013/
• Speaker/Lecturer at sports conferences /2004-2016/
• Attendance to basketball clinics /2001-2016/
• 2001. Driving license B1.
LANGUAGES:
• Spanish and Catalan Mother tongue
• Italian Fluent
• English Fluent
YOUTUBE CHANNEL: http://www.youtube.com/user/PLAYERMPG