Beau Archibald

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Beau Archibald
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CBA Playoffs
Current position
TitleHead coach
TeamAl Jaysh
Biographical details
Born (1976-12-19) December 19, 1976 (age 49)
Los Angeles, California
Playing career
1996–1997Washington State
1998–2001UConn
PositionForward
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2001–2002UConn (assistant)
2002–2003Texas Tech (assistant)
2003–2004Florida Atlantic (assistant)
2004–2005Jacksonville (assistant)
2005–2006FIU (assistant)
2007–2010UConn (asst.)
2011Foshan Dralions
2011–2012Shanxi Zhongyu (Associate HC)
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame

Beau Archibald (born December 19, 1976) is an American basketball coach, currently coaching internationally with El Jaish in Doha, Qatar. He previously coached the Zhejiang Guangsha Lions of the Chinese Basketball Association and the Shanxi Zhongyu Brave Dragons and Foshan Dralions. Before coaching Internationally Archibald coached under Hall of Fame coach Jim Calhoun[1] at his alma mater, the University of Connecticut[2] where he was a part of the Huskies' Final Four run in 2009.

Before coaching at Connecticut, Archibald worked at Florida International, Texas San Antonio, Jacksonville University,[3] Florida Atlantic University[4] and started his career as a volunteer assistant at Texas Tech with Bobby Knight. Throughout his coaching career Archibald has worked with some of basketball's best coaches, including Jim Calhoun and Bobby Knight. Archibald has also worked with Hugh Durham[5] and Wang Fei, who was the former China men's national basketball team) coach.[6]

Archibald has a daughter named Kennadi,[7] who was born on June 10, 2003.

Biography

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Early life and education

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Archibald was born in Los Angeles, California. He started high school in Tempe, Arizona at Corona del Sol High School, where he won a state championship in 1994.[8] Archibald's family moved his senior year to Provo, Utah where he graduated from Timpview High School in Provo, Utah in 1995.[9]

Archibald's father Lynn (1944–1997) was a Division I head coach at Idaho State (1977–1982) in Pocatello, Idaho, and Utah (1983–1989) in Salt Lake City.

References

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