• Damien Anderson

  • Jun 6 2020
  • Length: 51 mins
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Damien Anderson

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  • Damien Anderson is an Australian Basketball Coach living in Louisville Kentucky and is Head Coach at DeSales High School. Damien is originally from Brisbane, Queensland and had a lengthy basketball career playing in the NBL (Brisbane Bullets), South Eastern Australian Basketball League (SEABL) and Queensland Basketball League (QBL), with the Southern Districts Spartans (Brisbane) and Mount Gambier Pioneers. Damien was co-captain of the Pioneers team which won the 2003 ABA National Championship with Damien being named in the SEABL All-Star starting five that year. Damien set all sorts of records in the early 90's when he had a 75 point game shooting 20/33 from the 3 point line, which at that time was the highest points scored in a professional game in Australia by an Australian player, and remains the 5th highest points scored in a game at that level. Check out the highlight clips at https://youtu.be/jv1SrsAnDbs Damien took on a graduate assistant coaching role in 2007 with Division 1 college University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, where he stayed for 3 years before moving to Louisville KY to take up the role of Assistant Coach at St. Xavier High School with Head coach Kevin Klein. Damien then took on a role in 2013 at Bellarmine University in Louisville with Head Coach Scott Davenport during a period where Bellarmine achieved a 77-19 record and appeared in three consecutive NCAA D-II tournaments. Damien moved on from Bellarmine after the birth of his daughter and then coached again in the 2017-18 season at Aspire Basketball Academy as Associate Head Coach, and then was appointed in 2018 to his current role as Head Coach at DeSales High School. In this interview, we talk about Damien's playing days, his introduction to college basketball as a coach, and his thoughts on developing a new basketball program.
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