FILE–Former PBA coach Chris Gavina takes over for UE Purple Warriors within the UAAP males’s basketball event. –INQUIRER FILE
College of the East has appointed former PBA coach Chris Gavina as the brand new head coach of its males’s basketball workforce within the UAAP.
Gavina, who coached Rain or Shine and Mahindra within the professional league, takes over the Purple Warriors program that final reached the Last 4 in 2009.
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He replaces Jack Santiago, who served as UE’s head coach for 3 seasons earlier than leaving after the workforce’s Season 87 marketing campaign.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Coach Chris Gavina to the Purple Warriors household,” UE President Zosimo Battad stated throughout the signing ceremony at UE Manila on February 13. “His management, ardour, and expertise shall be key in creating our workforce.”
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UE Purple Warriors welcome new coach Chris Gavina. –UE PHOTO
Other than native teaching stints, Gavina additionally took his act to Taiwan, the place he steered the Taiwan Mustangs in The Asian Event and the Taichung Suns to the T1 League.
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Gavina is anticipated to guide a younger Purple Warriors workforce that confirmed great promise final season, nearly ending their Last 4 drought and ending at fifth.
His expertise with rising abilities, being named one of the best coach within the 2024 U19 NBTC Nationwide Finals Division 1 Event, makes Gavina the proper particular person for the job, the college stated.
“The UE Purple Warriors have a proud historical past, and I’m desirous to instill a mindset of arduous work, resilience, and accountability,” Gavina stated in a press launch. “I need to assist these younger athletes attain their full potential.”
The Purple Warriors was a powerhouse in UAAP males’s basketball and has produced massive names within the sport with the likes of PBA legends Robert Jaworski and Allan Caidic and Jerry Codiñera. –Celest Flores-Colina
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