Manuel Peña Garcés (born January 2, 1983, in Castellón de la Plana) is a Spanish basketball coach, who is currently the Coach of Satria Muda Pertamina of the Indonesian Basketball League (IBL), he was last in Gran Canaria at Liga Endesa and Eurocup as assistant coach alongside Jaka Lakovic. In 2022-2023 they won the Eurocup title.
During 2021–2022 he served as Sporting Technical Director at Stadium Casablanca after serving three years at Basket Zaragoza as Assistant Coach in Liga Endesa. He spent five 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.
He alsos served as the head coach of the U15 men's English National Team[1] in the years 2016–2017 and 2017–2018.
From 2011 through to 2018, he taught at the level 3 CES course for coaches under the Spanish Basketball Federation FEB.
Additionally, he is a co-founder of SportCoach, a platform focused on development, education, and training for coaches.
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External Articles
- Interview Manuel Peña Preseason 2017-2018 BBC
- Article in Hoopsfix about National Team Coaching Staff 2017
- 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 about a life in the day of Basketball Coach 2015