Tom Maher is a basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 coach from Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, who is the most successful coach in the WNBL history, having won seven WNBL titles. He was WNBL Coach of the Year in 1987 and 1992, and is a Life Member of the WNBL.

Maher led the Australia women's national basketball team

Australia women's national basketball team

The Australia Women's National Basketball Team is the women's National Basketball team for Australia. They won Gold at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games 2006 defeating New Zealand's Tall Ferns in the final match with a score of 77–39. They then followed it up with a gold medal at the 2006 FIBA...

 to their first Olympic medal (bronze) in 1996 and then on to silver at the 2000 Summer Olympics

2000 Summer Olympics

The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

 in Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

. He was head coach of New Zealand in Athens 2004, and coached the Tall Ferns to their best-ever performance of eighth. He coached the Chinese National Team at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, finishing fourth.

Coaching career

• 1993-2000 Head Coach, Australian National Women's Basketball Team;
• 2001 Head Coach, Washington Mystics, WNBA;
• 2002-2003 Head Coach, Canberra Women's Basketball Association;
• 2004 Head Coach, New Zealand National Women's Team;
• 2006-2008 Head Coach Chinese National Women's Team.
• 2009 - Current Head Coach Great Britain Women's Team

Coaching achievements:

• Australian National Team:
  • 1994/1998 World Championship - 4th/3rd;
  • 1996/2000 Olympic Games - 3rd/2nd;
  • New Zealand National Team:
• 2004 Olympic Games - 8th;
• Chinese National Team:
  • 2006 World Championship - 12th;
  • 2006 Asian Games - 1st

In May 2009 he was appointed coach of the GB women's team, replacing Mark Clark.

Personal life

Maher is married to former Opals

Australia women's national basketball team

The Australia Women's National Basketball Team is the women's National Basketball team for Australia. They won Gold at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games 2006 defeating New Zealand's Tall Ferns in the final match with a score of 77–39. They then followed it up with a gold medal at the 2006 FIBA...

 captain Robyn Maher

Robyn Maher

Robyn Maher is a retired female basketball player from Australia, who played for the Sydney Uni Flames. A three-time Olympian she was a member of the national women's team that won the bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.-Personal life:Maher is married to former Opals...

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