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Don Beck (born June 2, 1953) is an American professional basketball coach.

Don Beck

Beck coaching Toyama Grouses in 2018
Kumamoto Volters
Position	Coach
Personal information
Born	(1953-01-02) January 2, 1953 (age 69) New York City, New York
Nationality	American
Coaching career	1978–present
Career history
As coach:
1978–?	Santa Barbara CC (assistant)
1989–1990	Santa Barbara CC (women's)
1990–1992	Fresno State (assistant)
1992–1994	Oostende
1994–2001	TVG Trier
2001–2007	EWE Baskets Oldenburg
2007–2009	Euphony Bree
2009–2010	EiffelTowers Den Bosch
2010–2015	Toyota Alvark
2015–2018	Toyota Antelopes
2018–2020	Toyama Grouses
2021–	Kumamoto Volters
Career highlights and awards
JBL champion (2012) JBL Coach of the Year (2012)

Career

Beck began his career on the sideline as assistant coach at Santa Barbara City College in 1978. Other assistant coach stints came at Bentley College, Rutgers University and Fresno State University before taking his first head coach position at Santa Barbara City College in 1989, where he coached the women's team.[1]

In 1990, Beck accepted the interim head coaching position at Fresno State and in 1992 was named head coach of Sunair Oostende, a first-division team from Belgium.

During his seven-year tenure at German Basketball Bundesliga side TVG Trier (1994–2001), Beck guided the team to two German Cup titles (1998 and 2001) and a trip to the Bundesliga semifinals in 1998.[2] In 2001, Beck took the reins at fellow Bundesliga team EWE Baskets Oldenburg, where he worked until May 2007. He was then named head coach of Euphony Bree of Belgium until January 2009[3] and served as head coach of the Eiffel Towers Den Bosch,[4] a member of the Dutch top-flight Eredivisie, from January 2009 to April 2010.

From 2010 to 2015, Beck was at the helm of Japanese side Toyota Alvark. He received JBL Coach of the Year honors in the 2011–12 season after guiding the team to a championship title and led Alvark to a second-place finish in 2014–15.[5] He served as head coach of the Toyota Antelopes in the Women's Japan Basketball League from 2015 to 2018 and then accepted the head coaching job with the Toyama Grouses of Japan's B.League in July 2018.[6] He coached the Toyoma team until 2020. In May 2021, he was named head coach of the Kumamoto Volters of Japan's B2 league.[7]

Head coaching record

Legend

Regular season	G	Games coached	W	Games won	L	Games lost	W–L %	Win–loss %
Playoffs	PG	Playoff games	PW	Playoff wins	PL	Playoff losses	PW–L %	Playoff win–loss %

Team	Year	G	W	L	W–L%	Finish	PG	PW	PL	PW–L%	Result
Toyota Alvark	2010–11	36	23	13	.639	3rd in JBL	-	-	-	–	-
Toyota Alvark	2011–12	42	29	13	.690	2nd in JBL	6	5	1	.833	JBL champions
Toyota Alvark	2012–13	42	32	10	.762	2nd in JBL	3	1	2	.333	3rd place
Toyota Alvark	2013–14	54	45	9	.833	2nd in NBL-E	5	2	3	.400	3rd place
Toyota Alvark	2014–15	54	40	14	.741	3rd in NBL-E	9	5	4	.556	Runners-up in NBL
Toyama Grouses	2018–19	60	32	28	.533	3rd in Central	2	0	2	.000	Lost in 1st round
Toyama Grouses	2019–20	41	17	24	.415	3rd in Central	-	-	-	–	-

References

External links

• Eurobasket profile
• Bundesliga profile

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