Women’s team head coach Thomaidis, Canada Basketball agree to part ways
TORONTO — Lisa Thomaidis won't return as lead trainer of Canada's public ladies' b-ball group, finishing a run of almost 10 years in charge of the program.
Canada Basketball said in a delivery Tuesday that the association and Thomaidis have "commonly consented to head out in different directions." Thomaidis' agreement lapsed toward the finish of September.
Thomaidis was named lead trainer of the ladies' public group in 2013 and drove the group to a FIBA world positioning of fourth, the most noteworthy in program history. She leaves with a 83-44 record in charge.
Be that as it may, the group missed the mark concerning assumptions this late spring at the Tokyo Olympics by neglecting to progress to the decoration round.
The group was intensely affected by limitations around the COVID-19 pandemic, with the full crew going year and a half without playing together before an Olympic-opening misfortune to Serbia on July 26.
Before being named lead trainer, Thomaidis was an associate mentor for the past 12 years in the wake of joining Allison McNeill's staff in 2001.
Thomaidis has additionally been lead trainer at the University of Saskatchewan for over 20 years, twice procuring U Sport mentor of the year.
Since taking over as lead trainer in 1998, she's driven the Huskies to seven Canada West titles and two public titles, remembering for 2020 out of one of the last major games in Canada before COVID-19. The Huskies have arrived at the U Sports Final 8 competition multiple times, remembering for 12 of the last 13 seasons.
