Miscellaneous
David Herbert is a former WNBL Head Coach and is currently Head Coach of the Australian Gems Under 19 womens team. David currently works with the Basketball Victoria high performance network and is Director of Pathways and Development at Basketball Geelong, and has held key development roles in Queensland and Western Australia.Growing up in country Victoria, Dave moved into coaching in his late teens and was the first Head Coach of the Townsville Fire WNBL team from 2001 to 2007. Dave was the Head Coach of the West Coast Waves women's team in Perth (2010-11) and then Assistant Coach with Head Coach Carrie Graf at the Canberra Capitals (2012-13). Dave was CEO of Cairns Basketball from 2013-14 and moved back to Geelong from 2016 as Head Coach of the SEABL Geelong Lady Supercats.In this interview, we discuss some of Dave's coaching philosophies and learnings he has had being involved with Australian youth teams at FIBA Asia-Pacific and World Cup events and WNBL teams. Dave has a great Facebook coaches group (Herbie's Coaches Network) and is will be coaching the Gems in the next U19 World Championships.