Mike Montgomery

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Mike Montgomery
Title	Head coach
College	University of California, Berkeley
Sport	Basketball
Born	February 27, 1947 (1947-02-27) (age 61)
Place of birth	Long Beach, California
Career highlights
Overall	547-244
Championships
NIT Championship (1991) Pacific-10 Regular Season Championship (1999, 2000, 2003, 2004) Pacific-10 Conference Tournament Championship (2004)
Awards
Naismith College Coach of the Year (2000) John R. Wooden "Legends of Coaching" Lifetime Achievement Award (2004) Pac-10 Coach of the Year (1999, 2000, 2003, 2004)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1974-1977 1977–1986 1986–2004 2004–2006 2008-Present	Boise State (asst.) Montana Stanford Golden State Warriors California

Mike Montgomery (born February 27, 1947) is the current head basketball coach at the University of California, Berkeley. He was also the men's basketball coach of the Stanford Cardinal from 1986 to 2004 and at the University of Montana for eight seasons prior to coaching at Stanford. He also coached the Golden State Warriors in the NBA from 2004 to 2006.

Contents 1 College coaching career 2 NBA coaching career 3 Current career 4 Personal 5 References 6 External links

[edit] College coaching career

Montgomery compiled a 547-244 (.692) overall record in 18 years at Stanford (1986-2004) and eight seasons at the University of Montana (1978-1986). He recently accepted the head coaching position at California. He boasts 25 winning seasons in his 26 years as a head coach at both Stanford and Montana. Montgomery's Stanford teams reached the NCAA tournament ten straight times from 1995-2004. Stanford reached the Final Four under Montgomery in 1998, the school's first Final Four appearance in 56 years. He made his third appearance along the USA Basketball sidelines in 2002 when he was named an assistant under George Karl for the US national team in the 2002 FIBA World Championship.^[1]

In 2000, Montgomery was named the Naismith and Basketball Times Coach of the Year. He was also named the Pac-10 Coach of the Year four times. Following his career at Stanford, he was awarded the John R. Wooden Legends of Coaching Lifetime Achievement Award.

[edit] NBA coaching career

Montgomery left Stanford to become the head coach of the Golden State Warriors on May 21, 2004. He coached the Warriors for two seasons, during each of which the team compiled identical 34-48 records. Montgomery was terminated as Warriors coach on August 29, 2006. Baron Davis has been critical of Montgomery's tenure in Golden State, and it is rumored he was instrumental in Montgomery's firing.^{[citation needed]} Said Davis of Montgomery, "Mike is a good coach but has the wrong ideas for our squad, he needs to look closer to see how to win."^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Current career

On August 30, 2007, Stanford University announced that Montgomery was returning to the university as Assistant to the Athletic Director on a part-time basis. According to the announcement, "his duties will include fund raising and public relations while also serving as a mentor to Stanford's coaching staff."^[2]

On April 4th, 2008, Montgomery was named the head coach of the California Men's basketball program.^[3]

[edit] Personal

He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in physical education from Long Beach State and a Master's degree in physical education from Colorado State University.

He and his wife Sara have two adult children.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• The biography of Mike Montgomery as a coach
• Purdy: Montgomery wasn't right for the NBA
• Montgomery to coach Cal

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