Víctor Lapeña

Víctor Antonio Lapeña Tortosa (born 12 March 1975, in Zaragoza) is a Spanish basketball coach who is the head coach of the Canada women's national basketball team.

Víctor Lapeña

Personal information
Born	(1975-03-12) 12 March 1975 (age 49) Zaragoza, Spain
Position	Head coach
Coaching career	2003–present
Career history
As coach:
2003–2004	Stadium Casablanca [LF2]
2004–2005	Puig d'en Valls [LF2]
2005–2007	Extrugasa Cortegada [LF2]
2007–2009	Cadí La Seu
2009–2012	CDB Zaragoza
2012	UNB Obenasa
2013–2014	Perfumerías Avenida
2015–2018	Stadium Casablanca
2018–2019	Nadezhda Orenburg
2019–2022	Fenerbahçe
2022–present	Canada women's national team
Career highlights and awards
EuroCup Women champion (2019) Spanish League champion (2013) Spanish Cup champion (2014) Turkish Super League champion (2021) Turkish Presidential Cup champion (2019) Turkish Cup champion (2020)

Club career

He coached several teams in Spain, both in the second tier league (2003-2008) and the first tier league (2008-2018). He won the Spanish League in the 2012-13 season, and the 2014 Spanish Cup with CB Avenida.^[1]

In the 2018-2019 season he coached his first team abroad, Nadezhda Orenburg from the Russian Premier League, winning the second-tier 2018–19 EuroCup Women. On 29 June 2019 he signed for Turkish club Fenerbahçe^[2]

National team

Lapeña has worked with the Spanish Basketball Federation as both assistant and head coach in the youth teams and the senior team, winning a total of 14 medals.^[3] In November 2015 he was the head coach of the senior team for two games.^[4]

• 2007 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship (youth) (assistant coach)
• 2007 Eurobasket (senior) (assistant coach)
• 2009 Eurobasket (senior) (assistant coach)
• 8th 2010 FIBA Under-17 World Championship (youth) (head coach)
• 2011 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (youth) (assistant coach)
• 2012 FIBA Under-17 World Championship (youth) (head coach)
• 2013 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (youth) (head coach)
• 2013 Eurobasket (senior) (assistant coach)
• 2014 FIBA Under-17 World Championship (youth) (head coach)
• 2014 World Championship (senior) (assistant coach)
• 2015 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (youth) (head coach)
• 2015 Eurobasket (senior) (assistant coach)
• 7th 2016 FIBA Under-17 World Championship (youth) (head coach)
• 2016 Summer Olympics (senior) (assistant coach)
• 2017 Eurobasket (senior) (assistant coach)
• 2018 World Championship (senior) (assistant coach)

References

1. "Victor Lapena Basketball Coach Profile, Mann Filter Zaragoza, staff, biography, career - eurobasket.com". www.eurobasket.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-19. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
2. "Víctor Lapeña: "Entrenar al Fenerbahçe es entrar en otra dimensión"". www.gigantes.com.
3. Aragón, Heraldo de. "Víctor Lapeña, el coleccionista de medallas". heraldo.es. Archived from the original on 2018-08-14. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
4. "Mondelo no dirigirá a la selección femenina en el PreEuropeo". Marca.com. Archived from the original on 13 September 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2019. (in Spanish)