Vincent Lavandier (born February 10, 1972) is a French basketball coach. He was most recently the head coach of the Montreal Alliance of the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL).

Vincent Lavandier
Personal information
Born (1972-02-10) February 10, 1972 (age 52)
NationalityFrench
Coaching career2000–present
Career history
As coach:
2000–2001Poissy Yvelines (assistant)
2002–2003Paris Basket Racing (assistant)
2003–2006Élan Chalon (assistant)
2006–2007Trappes
2007–2008Lagardere Paris
2009–2012JL Bourg Basket (assistant)
2012–2017Angers
2017–2018Tarbes-Lourdes
2019–2020Glasgow Rocks
2020–2021US Avignon-Pontet
2022Montreal Alliance

Career

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Lavandier spent much of his early coaching career in his homeland, learning as an assistant under Jacques Monclar at Paris Basket Racing and Grégor Beugnot at Élan Chalon.[1]

He took his first full head coaching role with Trappes in the NM1 league in 2006. He spent time as head coach of Lagardere Paris in Women's National 1 and then three years as an assistant coach at JL Bourg Basket.[2] Lavandier took over at Angers in 2012, and led them to the NM1 title in 2014 and promotion to LNB Pro B.[3] In June 2017, Lavandier became head coach of Union Tarbes-Lourdes.[4]

In February 2019, Lavandier was appointed interim head coach of the Glasgow Rocks, for the remainder of the 2018–19 season.[5] In April 2019, he signed a deal to remain head coach until the end of the 2020–21 season.[6] He was voted Coach of the Year for the 2019–2020 season by the Basketball Journalists Association.[7]

On March 8, 2022, Lavandier signed as head coach of the Montreal Alliance, an expansion team in the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL).[8] On January 23, 2023, the Alliance announced that he would not return after posting a 4-16 record in 2022. [9]

References

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  1. ^ "Vincent Lavandier". Edusport Academy. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  2. ^ "Basket Pro B - Vincent Lavandier quitte la JL en fin de saison". lavoixdelain.fr. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  3. ^ "BeBasket : actualité du basket en France et en Europe : Le coach Vincent Lavandier des Glasgow Rocks à Avignon ?". bebasket.fr. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  4. ^ "NM1 – Vincent Lavandier nouvel entraîneur de l'Union Tarbes-Lourdes : Basket31.tv". basket31.tv. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  5. ^ "Rocks appoint Lavandier as interim head coach - British Basketball League". bbl.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  6. ^ "Rocks secure Lavandier Long Term". Glasgow Rocks. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  7. ^ "Leedham and PJC Head Season Honours". mvp247.com. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  8. ^ "Vincent Lavandier tabbed as Montreal Alliance's first head coach". montrealgazette. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
  9. ^ "L'entraîneur Vincent Lavandier ne sera pas de retour". lapresse (in Canadian French). Retrieved 15 Feb 2023.