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Améleté Abalo

Améleté Abalo (March 7, 1962 – January 9, 2010) was the assistant coach of Togo national football team and manager of ASKO Kara.

Ferdinando Gentile

After being named the assistant coach of Lottomatica Roma under Jasmin Repeša, on 9 December 2008, Gentile was appointed as the head coach of the club, after the resignation of Repeša.

Jenny Whittle

In 2013, Whittle was one of several former players on new Opals head coach, Brendan Joyce, list to be appointed as the assistant coach, but she declared herself unavailable.


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1975 NBA Finals

The remainder of the game was directed by assistant coach Joe Roberts.

2012–13 GlobalPort Batang Pier season

January 3: Junel Baculi was appointed head coach, with Glenn Capacio assistant coach.

2013–14 Albany Devils season

Former New Jersey Devils center Sergei Brylin was hired in September as an Albany assistant coach, joining Tommy Albelin and Dave Caruso.

2013–14 Harrisburg Heat season

The team, owned by Harrisburg Heat Sports Group, LLC, is led by general manager David Grimaldi, head coach Richard Chinapoo, and assistant coach Gino DiFlorio.

Adam Setliff

He currently lives in Dallas with his wife and 3 children and is an assistant coach at St. Mark's School of Texas as well as a practicing attorney.

Anatoliy Korobochka

On 30 July 2007 it was confirmed that Korobochka would take permanent charge of Hearts for the 2007-08 season, joint with Stephen Frail who had acted as Interim assistant coach the previous season.

Asen Bukarev

In June 2009 he had been appointed as an assistant coach of Velislav Vutsov in Slavia Sofia.

Bonnie Henrickson

Henrickson served as an assistant coach, under head coach Rene Portland, of the USA representative to the 1999 World University Games (also known as the Universiade).

Cal Murphy

He pursued his master's degree while an assistant coach at Eastern Washington University under Head Coach Dave Holmes.

Chris Tierney

Tierney also played club soccer in the Boston Bolts youth program, under New England assistant coach Paul Mariner.

Clarke Central High School

The current head football coach, Leroy Ryals, is a former LSU Tigers (under Nick Saban) and South Florida Bulls assistant coach.

Clement Teo

Before he was appointed as the assistant coach of the Rams, Teo was the head coach of NFL Division 2 side, Katong Football Club.

Dane Fife

Fife is the former head coach of the Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) Mastodons men's basketball team and former college assistant coach at Indiana University.

Danièle Sauvageau

In 1999-2000, she became an assistant coach for the Montreal Rocket of the QMJHL.

Darryl Fisher

Fisher played for, and later became the assistant coach of, the Hibiscus Coast Raiders in the Bartercard Cup.

Dave Fuller

Fuller was also an assistant coach for the Florida Gators football team for twenty-nine seasons from 1947 to 1976 under four different head coaches—Raymond Wolf, Bob Woodruff, Ray Graves and Doug Dickey.

Donovan Warren

Warren's godfather, former Pro Bowl defensive back Mark Carrier, is an assistant coach with the Jets.

Đuro Bago

In 2002, He became the assistant coach for the famous Croatian coach Miroslav Blažević when Blažević became head coach of first professional team of Dinamo Zagreb.

Ed Chynoweth

Dean Chynoweth is a former National Hockey League player, and is currently an assistant coach with the New York Islanders.

Ed Ulinski

John Brickels, an assistant coach for the Cleveland Browns in the new All-America Football Conference (AAFC), noticed Ulinski when he was playing at Marshall.

Egon Coordes

Coordes entered coaching with OSC Bremerhaven in the Regionalliga North and worked his way through to the post of assistant coach at Bayern Munich by 1984.

Fort Wayne Freedom

He had worked previously as an assistant coach at the University of St. Francis, an NAIA institution, and NCAA Division II Hillsdale College in Michigan.

Gary Gait

Gary Charles Gait (b. April 5, 1967 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian retired lacrosse player and currently the head coach of the women's lacrosse team at Syracuse University, where he played the sport collegiately, and an assistant coach with the Hamilton Nationals in Major League Lacrosse.

Gene Cross

Cross was lured away from the Red Claws to become the lead assistant coach by the defending NBA Development League champion Iowa Energy and its new head coach Kevin Young with whom Cross worked for the previous season with the Utah Flash.

Gerry Sandusky

Sandusky is the son of John Sandusky, who played in the NFL for the Cleveland Browns and Green Bay Packers, and who later was an assistant coach for several NFL teams, and head coach for the Baltimore Colts.

Glenn Burke

Toward the beginning of his career, an assistant coach described him as the next Willie Mays.

Gordy Combs

He had spent 19 seasons as an assistant coach to Phil Albert at Towson before taking over when Albert retired.

Jim Saia

In his seven years as an assistant coach at UCLA, many of his players went on to play for NBA teams, including Baron Davis, Earl Watson, Jason Kapono, and Matt Barnes.

Joe Galat

After a tour as an assistant coach in the NCAA at Yale University, Miami University, University of Kentucky and for the NFL’s New York Giants and Houston Oilers, the Painesville native was hired as Head Coach and General Manager of the Montreal Alouettes in the Canadian Football League by then owner George Allen.

John Mauer

While coaching the Gators basketball team, he also served as an assistant coach for the Florida Gators football team under head coaches Bob Woodruff and Ray Graves.

Juan Ferreri

Juan Francisco Ferreri Samuel (born 30 July 1970 in Florida) commonly known as Juan Ferreri, is a former Uruguayan footballer who used to play as a midfielder and now is assistant coach of Jorge Giordano in Racing.

Kevin McGuff

During his six years as an Irish assistant coach under Muffet McGraw, Notre Dame went 160-39, including a national title in 2001.

Lynn Howells

Howells was assistant coach to the Wales national rugby union team under Graham Henry during the 1999 Rugby World Cup and took over as caretaker head coach for the 2001 Wales tour to Japan whilst Henry was touring as coach of the British and Irish Lions.

Malcolm Alker

Malcolm started the 2011 season as assistant coach to Shaun McRae at Salford City Reds but his future at the club hangs in the balance due to being dismissed from a training session in April.

McNicholas Quadruplets

Lindsay McNicholas is the wife of Adam Krug, Assistant Coach of the Indiana Ice, and her brother in law is Torey Krug who plays for the Boston Bruins.

Michael Schjønberg

In November 2005, Schjønberg became assistant coach of Hannover 96 to manager Peter Neururer.

Mike Ekeler

After seven years in private business for himself, Ekeler returned to the game when he began volunteer coaching for V. J. and Angela Skutt Catholic High School in Omaha, Nebraska from 1999 to 2001, and as an assistant coach at Manhattan High School in Manhattan, Kansas in 2002, back in the town where he had played for Kansas State almost a decade before.

Mike Hanks

On temporary assignment from Samford, Hanks served as an assistant coach to then Texas coach, Bob Weltlich for the US national team in the 1982 FIBA World Championship, winning the silver medal in Cali, Colombia.

Milan Blagojevic

In 2006 he was an assistant coach on the first series of the Australian television series Nerds FC.

Oklahoma State University men's basketball team plane crash

This crash should not be confused with a second plane crash that happened on November 17, 2011, that killed head coach Kurt Budke and Assistant Coach Miranda Serna, of the OSU Women's Basketball team, as well as State Senator Olin Branstetter.

Robert J. Cleary

In February 2006, in the wake of a police investigation codenamed Operation Slapshot, National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announced that the NHL had retained Cleary to conduct its own investigation into the involvement of Rick Tocchet, an assistant coach for the Phoenix Coyotes, in an illegal bookmaking ring.

Robert Lyles

He is currently the defensive assistant coach for the United States Military Academy.

Roman Sanzhar

On December 2012 Sanzhar announced his retirement and became the assistant coach for the Ukrainian First League club FC Olimpik Donetsk.

Sergio McClain

McClain's father, Wayne, coached Manual High School during its title run, and after Sergio graduated from Illinois, Wayne joined Bill Self's staff as an assistant coach, where he continued to work under Bruce Weber, eventually following Weber to Kansas State.

Seru Rabeni

During the summer 2013, Rabeni moved to the United States to become an assistant coach for the college rugby team of Lindenwood University in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Snoopy's Senior World Hockey Tournament

Some of the former NHLers who have played in the tournament are Red Berenson, Ernie Hicke, Terry Harper, and Mel Bridgman, as well as the current Assistant Coach for the Chicago Blackhawks, Jamie Kompon.

Steve Adlard

From 1982 to 1986 Adlard was an Assistant Coach for the University of Evansville soccer team.

Steve McCormack

In October 2007 Steve McCormack left Widnes and joined Hull Kingston Rovers as assistant coach to Justin Morgan.

Tallahassee Tiger Sharks

Gerry Fleming, a former enforcer who spent ten years with the Fredericton Canadiens as both a player and as an assistant coach, coached the Tiger Sharks in their final season.

Tyrone Nix

He is the brother of Derrick Nix, a former Southern Miss star and former Southern Miss assistant coach as well as a former Atlanta Falcons assistant coach in the NFL.