Manuel Pena Garces

Manuel Peña Garcés (born in Castellón de la Plana on January 2, 1983) is a Spanish basketball coach currently at Basket Zaragoza as Assistant Coach. He was 5 seasons at Reading Rockets in English NBL1 where they got different achievements (1 Regular League, 1 National Cup and 1 Trophy) arriving to different finals and increasing the structure of the club meanwhile Manuel Pena was Head Coach and Technical Director.

Manuel Peña in Time Out in National Cup Final 2015

He was also the head coach of the U15 men's English National Team 2016-2017 and 2017-2018.

He was teacher in the course for coaches level 3 CES for the Spanish Basketball Federation FEB from 2011 till 2018.

He is also cofounder of SportCoach, website for development, learning and teaching for coaches.

References

• Article about the visit of JMA Reading Rockets Academy to Spanish Federation Museum 2017

• Article in the Reading Chronicle about Coaching Clinic in preseason 2016-2017

• Article in Hoopsfix about National Team Coaching Staff 2017

• Article about a life in the day of Basketball Coach 2015