Congratulation to Matt Lacey who received the Keith Mair Male Coach of the YearAward for 2018 at the Basketball New Zealand Awards Dinner in Wellington last Friday.

Matt began his coaching career as a 20 year old, a year after representing the Junior Tall Blacks as a player.

In his first year of coaching his Rosmini College Junior Premier team won the Zone 1 and 2 Junior Premierships.

This success was repeated in 2016 and in the same year he was assistant coach of the Harbour U15 Girls team that claimed the National title in Wellington.

At 23 he became the youngest head coach to capture the prestigious Schick Secondary Schools AA National Championship when guiding Rosmini College to the title in 2017. He repeated the feat in 2018 as Rosmini won back-to-back titles.

Also in 2018 he was Head Coach of the Harbour Under 19 team that attended tournaments in the USA as well as the NZ U19 National Championships where the team finished third.

Matt continues to coach at Rosmini College, for Harbour Basketball and is also involved in the New Zealand High Performance programme as an assistant coach with the New Zealand U17 Men’s team that will attend the FIBA U17 Oceania Tournament in August.

This season Matt is again coaching the Harbour Under 19 Men’s team that head to Dunedin next week for U19 Nationals.

Harbour Basketball congratulates Matt on his outstanding achievement.