SYDNEY (Australia) - Basketball Australia have announced that Adam Caporn is the new coach of the Boomers.
Caporn, an assistant in recent summers to Australia head coaches Andrej Lemanis and Brian Goorjian, offers continuity for a national team that is No. 7 in the latest FIBA World Ranking, Presented by Nike.
Currently in his first season as an assistant coach with the Washington Wizards after spending a couple of campaigns as an assistant with the Brooklyn Nets, Caporn has a strong connection with Australia basketball.
From 2014 to 2021, Caporn was the head coach at the Centre of Excellence. While in that role, he worked with current Boomers and NBA stars Josh Giddey and Dyson Daniels.
With the national team, Caporn was an assistant coach for Australia for several years up to last summer, when the Boomers played at the Olympics in France.
Included in that stretch his role as an assistant to Lemanis at the 2019 World Cup, where the team came up just short of reaching the Final after a double-overtime defeat to Spain.
Goorjian then had Caporn by his side at the Tokyo Games, where the Boomers beat Slovenia in the Third Place Game to reach the podium at the Olympics for the first time.
Caporn was also with Australia at the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 in Japan and last summer in France at the Olympics.
His start in coaching was at St Mary's in California, from 2010 to 2014. Caporn had played two years for the Gaels in his college days.
In making the announcement on Caporn, Basketball Australia have also revealed "the Boomers will introduce an Associate Head Coach role to absorb duties in the event of conflicts of schedule. "
Melbourn United's three-time NBL Championship winning coach Dean Vickerman, BA says, "has accepted this role for the next cycle."
Australia lost in overtime to Serbia in the Quarter-Finals of the 2024 Olympics.
The Boomers will play at the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup in Saudi Arabia this summer, aiming for a third straight title at the event.
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