Zach O'Brien (basketball)
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Zach O'Brien is an assistant coach for New York Liberty in the WNBA.[1]
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New York Liberty | |
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Position | Assistant Coach |
League | WNBA |
Personal information | |
Born | Schenectady, New York, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Career information | |
High school | Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons |
College | Saint Joseph's College of Maine |
NBA draft | 2012: undrafted |
Coaching career | 2019–present |
Career history | |
As coach: | |
2020–2021 | Phoenix Mercury (player dev.) |
2022–Present | New York Liberty (assistant) |
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As assistant coach: | |
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Prior to the Liberty, he was the Director of Player Development of the Phoenix Mercury. His professional coaching career began as a video coordinator for the Mercury (2019) and the Northern Arizona Suns (2019–2020) in the NBA G League.[2][3]
O'Brien is from Schenectady, New York, where he attended Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons High School. He played basketball at Saint Joseph's College of Maine where he scored more than 1,500 career points for the Monks, earning Great Northeast Athletic Conference All-First Team honors as a senior in 2011–12. He graduated in 2012.[4] He subsequently played two years for Oxford Brookes University in England.[5]