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Patrick Aquino attracts the curtains on his adorned run as Gilas Ladies head coach that lasted for over a decade because the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas says it’s now in seek for a brand new nationwide workforce shot-caller
MANILA, Philippines – Patrick Aquino’s time as head coach of Gilas Pilipinas Ladies, a adorned stint marked by a number of historic feats, has come to an finish.
Aquino, 54, attracts the curtains on his run as nationwide workforce mentor that lasted for over a decade because the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) introduced on Saturday, March 28, that it’s now looking for a brand new Gilas Ladies shot-caller.
“The SBP thanks coach Patrick Aquino for every thing that he has achieved for this system and for all his efforts within the improvement of girls’s basketball within the nation,” stated SBP president Ricky Vargas. “However now it’s time to maneuver ahead and do extra for Gilas Pilipinas Ladies and your complete ladies’s basketball group within the nation.”
With Aquino on the helm, Gilas Ladies captured their first-ever Southeast Asian Video games gold medal when the nation hosted the biennial showpiece in 2019 and adopted it with two extra victories, in Vietnam in 2022 and Thailand in 2025
He additionally spearheaded the Philippines’ promotion to the Division A of the FIBA Ladies’s Asia Cup, each on the senior and youth ranges.
Aquino added one other feather to his cap as Gilas Ladies beat a non-Asian workforce for the primary time once they scored a 74-59 upset of world No. 19 Colombia within the FIBA Ladies’s World Cup Qualifying Event in France earlier this March.
However that recreation turned out to be Aquino’s final.
Aquino, although, will proceed working with the SBP as he focuses on expertise identification and grassroots improvement, the federation stated.
“The panorama of girls’s basketball is altering as we’re seeing Filipina expertise sprouting from all around the world. The expertise of our Filipina gamers can be being acknowledged as doorways are opening for them all around the world. We have to harness all of this into our workforce,” stated Vargas.
A international alternative for Aquino is a risk because the SBP begins its hunt for a brand new head coach.
“We’re going to have a radical course of to find out who will lead Gilas Pilipinas Ladies transferring ahead. We don’t have clear prospects but, however the search begins now,” stated SBP govt director Erika Dy.
“We’re not limiting ourselves to on the lookout for native coaches, as our plan is absolutely to land the best choice attainable. If meaning hiring from overseas, that’s what we’ll do.”
Up subsequent for Gilas Ladies are the FIBA Ladies’s Olympic Pre-Qualifying Event in August and the Asian Video games in September — tournaments that are essential for the workforce’s preparation for the Philippines’ internet hosting of the 2027 Asia Cup. – Rappler.com
