Josh Pastner
Pastner in 2016
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Georgia Tech |
| Conference | ACC |
| Record | 16–13(.552) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
September 26, 1977 Glen Dale, West Virginia |
| Playing career | |
| 1996–2000 | Arizona |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 2002–2008 | Arizona (assistant) |
| 2008–2009 | Memphis (assistant) |
| 2009–2016 | Memphis |
| 2016–present | Georgia Tech |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 183–86 (.680) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 3× C-USA Tournament championship (2011–2013) 2× C-USA regular season championship (2012, 2013) |
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| Awards | |
| C-USA Coach of the Year (2013) | |
Joshua Paul Pastner (born September 26, 1977) is an American college basketball coach and the head coach of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Pastner was a player on the 1997 Arizona Wildcats men's basketball national championship team, an assistant coach at the University of Arizona under Lute Olson and at the University of Memphis under John Calipari.
Pastner was born in Glen Dale, West Virginia, in the state's northern panhandle, the son of Marla and Hal Pastner, who is a high school/AAU coach and basketball promoter in the Houston area. However, he grew up in the Kingwood master-planned community of Houston, Texas. Pastner is Jewish, and knew he wanted to be a coach since he was in the 5th grade. By the age of 13 he was publishing the Josh Pastner Scouting Report of local high school talent in the Houston area. At the age of 16, the Houston Hoops AAU squad was turned over to Pastner by his father, his first job as a head coach. While an AAU coach, Pastner coached future NBA players such as Emeka Okafor, T. J. Ford and Daniel Gibson.
Josh Pastner was a walk-on freshman on the 1997 NCAA championship University of Arizona basketball team. After winning the NCAA title, Pastner was able to finish his degree in only two and a half years, taking as many as 33 units per semester. He earned his bachelor's degree in Family Studies from Arizona in December 1998. He finished his master's in Teaching and Teacher Education in December 1999 before beginning work on his doctorate and starting his coaching career in 2000 as a graduate-assistant under Lute Olson at Arizona.
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