Jack Donohue (basketball)

Jack Donohue
Medal record

Head Coach for Canada Men's basketball
FIBA Americas Championship
	1980 San Juan	National team
	1984 São Paulo	National team
	1988 Montevideo	National team
Universiade
	1983 Edmonton	National team
	1985 Kobe	National team

John "Jack" Donohue, M.S.M. posthumous (June 4, 1931 – April 16, 2003) was an American-born head coach of the Canadian men's national basketball team for 17 years, leading them to many international successes.

He served as a coach for St. Nicholas of Tolentine High School and Power Memorial Academy high school basketball head coach ^[1] from 1959 to 1965, Donohue had a career win-loss record of 163–30, including winning 71 straight with star center Lew Alcindor (later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar). He went on to coach College of the Holy Cross from 1965 to 1972, compiling a record of 106–66.

Donohue was head coach of Canada from 1972 to 1988. He was also married to Mary-Jane Donohue, a beautiful wife. During which time the team participated in four Olympic Games and achieved two fourth-place finishes, in 1976 and 1984. He also coached the Canadian national universiade team to the gold medal at the 1983 World University Games.

Retiring from coaching in 1988, Donohue is enshrined in the following halls of fame: Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame, Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame, Ontario Basketball Hall of Fame, New York City Basketball Hall of Fame, and the Terry Fox Hall of Fame.

References

↑ http://poststar.com/sports/local/hoops-hall-of-fame-welcomes-large-class/article_9267552c-07a6-5650-b7c3-14417a539cb4.html

External links

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame entry

Preceded by Paul Mullins	Canada men's national basketball team head coach 1972–1988	Succeeded by Ken Shields

Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball head coaches

J. Fred Powers (1901–1906)
No team (1906–1907)
J. Fred Powers (1907–1909)
No team (1909–1920)
William Casey (1920–1924)
Ken Simendinger (1924–1925)
John Reed (1925–1931)
No team (1931–1934)
Albert Riopel (1934–1935)
No team (1935–1939)
Moose Krause (1939–1942)
Albert Riopel (1942–1945)
Doggie Julian (1945–1948)
Buster Sheary (1948–1955)
Roy Leenig (1955–1961)
Frank Oftring (1961–1965)
Jack Donohue (1965–1972)
George Blaney (1972–1994)
Bill Raynor (1994–1999)
Ralph Willard (1999–2009)
Sean Kearney (2009–2010)
Milan Brown (2010–2015)
Bill Carmody (2015– )

Canada squad – 1976 Summer Olympics – 4th place

4 Cassidy 5 Devlin 6 Hall 7 Hansen 8 Raffin 9 Riley 10 Robinson 11 Russell 12 Sankey 13 Sharpe 14 Tollestrup 15 Town Coach: Donohue

Canada squad – 1984 Summer Olympics – 4th place

4 Kelsey 5 Simms 6 Pasquale 7 Tilleman 8 Kazanowski 9 Triano 10 Hatch 11 Herbert 12 Wennington 13 Raffin 14 Wiltjer 15 Meagher Coach: Donohue

Canada squad – 1986 FIBA World Championship – 8th place

4 Besselink 5 Hatch 6 Herbert 7 Kazanowski 8 Kelsey 9 Mungar 10 Meagher 11 Pasquale 12 Simms 13 Triano 14 Turcotte 15 Wiltjer Coach: Donohue

Canada squad – 1988 Summer Olympics – 6th place

4 Clarke 5 Turcotte 6 Pasquale 7 Tilleman 8 Kristmanson 9 Triano 10 Walton 11 Hatch 12 Mungar 13 Raffin 14 Yearwood 15 Kazanowski Coach: Donohue

FIBA Hall of Fame inductees

Coaches (21)

Alexeyeva Canavesi Díaz-Miguel Donohue Ferrándiz A. Gomelsky E. Gomelsky Gaze Iba Kondrashin Newell Nikolić Novosel Primo Rubini Smith Soares Stirling Summitt Yow Žeravica

Contributors (35)

Airaldi Rivarola Ashry Atakol Bouffard Busnel Calvo Carneiro Dos Reis Greim Hepp Jones Killian Klieger Kozlowski López Martín Naismith Otto Pitzl Popović Ramsay Samaranch Šaper Saporta Scuri Seguro de Luna Semashko Seye Moreau Stanković Steitz Stern Ueda Vitale Wahby Yoon

Players (49)

Technical officials (14)

Arabadjian Bain Belošević Blanchard Dimou Hopenhaym Kassai Kostin Lazarov Pfeuti Rae Reverberi Rigas Righetto

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