John Triscari
John Triscari as coach of the Perth Western Stars
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| Born | 4 August 1957 | |||||||||
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| Sport | Wheelchair basketball | |||||||||
| Now coaching | Perth Western Stars | |||||||||
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John Triscari (born 4 August 1957) is an Australian wheelchair basketball coach and school teacher. He was the coach of the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, where the team won a silver medal. Since 2007, he has been the coach of the Perth Western Stars, which won the Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League (WNWBL) championship in 2013.
John Triscari was born on 4 August 1957. He is in charge of physical education and health at Rockingham Senior High School in Perth, Western Australia. He coached the Rockingham Flames and Mandurah Magic in Western Australian State Basketball League.
Triscari was appointed the coach of the Perth Western Stars in the Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League (WNWBL) in 2007. "Basically," he told the media, "my goal is to develop the women's team to get them winning finals." This goal proved to be elusive. Fronted by young talents Cobi Crispin and Amber Merritt, the Western Stars made the WNWBL grand final in 2008, only to be beaten by the dominant Sydney-based Hills Hornets. The Hornets delivered a second grand final loss to the Stars in 2009. The Western Stars went into the grand final as favourites in 2010, but suffered yet another defeat at the hands of the Sydney team, now renamed the Syney Uni Flames. In 2012, the Western Stars made in the grand final again, only to be defeated this time by the Victoria-based Dandenong Rangers. Finally, in the 2013 grand final, the Western Stars came from being nine points down at three quarter time to claim their first ever WNWBL championship.
In 2009, Triscari was named as the coach of the Australian women's national wheelchair basketball team, commonly known as the Gliders. At the same time, Ben Ettridge was named as head of the men's team, the Rollers. Ettridge had worked for Triscari as a physical education teacher at Rockingham three years before, but had since become the coach of an Italian team. Ettridge had then become West Australian director of elite coaching and player development at Basketball Australia, thereby becoming Triscari's boss.
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