Arik Shivek is the Israeli head basketball coach the Israeli national basketball team, as well as the coach of Belgian club Dexia Mons-Hainaut

Dexia Mons-Hainaut

Dexia Mons-Hainaut is a Belgian professional basketball club that is based in Mons, Wallonia. The club competes in the highest division of the Belgian League. The club's home arena is Mons Arena.-History:...

. Shivek replaced coach Tzvika (Zvi) Sherf

Zvi Sherf

Zvi Sherf , known almost universally by his nickname Zvika , is an Israeli basketball coach and former player. He is currently the coach of the Spartak St. Petersburg of the Russian Super League....

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Coaching career

Shivek started coaching in 1983 with Maccabi Netanya

Barak Netanya

Elitzur Maccabi Barak Netanya is a professional basketball team based in Netanya, Israel. The team qualified for the first Israeli league in 1985 under the name "Elitzur Netanya"...

 and later moved to clubs such as Maccabi Ra’anana

Bnei HaSharon

Bnei HaSharon/Herzliya is a professional basketball club based in Herzliya, in central Israel. The club currently plays in Ligat HaAl, the top division of Israeli basketball.The club was created by the merge of Maccabi Ra'anana and Bnei Herzliya in 2002...

, Maccabi Ramat Gan

Maccabi Ramat Gan

Maccabi Ramat Gan may refer to:*Maccabi Ramat Gan, a football club based in Ramat Gan that merged into Hakoah Maccabi Ramat Gan in 1959*Maccabi Ramat Gan, a basketball club that merged into Ironi Ramat Gan....

, and Hapoel Tel Aviv

Hapoel Tel Aviv

Hapoel Tel Aviv is a sports club in Israel, founded in the 1920's, and part of the Hapoel association. It runs several sports clubs and teams in Tel Aviv which have competed in a variety of sports over the years, such as football, weightlifting and others...

. Beginning in 2003 he coached the Amsterdam Ricoh Astronauts in Holland, leading it to a championships in 2008 and 2009, and the Antwerp Giants in Belgium.

He was the Coach of the Year in the Dutch Premier League in 2005 and 2009, and was named Eurobasket

Eurobasket

The EuroBasket, also referred to as the FIBA European Basketball Championship, is the main basketball competition contested biennially by the men's national teams governed by FIBA Europe, the European zone within the International Basketball Federation. The championship was first held in 1935 and...

 Coach of the Year in 2008.

In December 2009, he was appointed the head basketball coach of the Israeli national basketball team. The Israel Basketball Association

Israel Basketball Association

The Israel Basketball Association is the official organization of professional basketball in Israel. The organization oversees the regulation of the sport, team and player registration, rules of the game, various official certification, and the National team...

 permitted him to take the job on a part-time basis. In June 2011, he re-signed as coach of Dexia Mons-Haiaut for a third straight year, subsequent to declining job offers from teams in France and Germany.

Honours

• Israeli Second Division
  Liga Leumit (basketball)
  Liga Leumit is the second tier of league basketball competition in Israel, below the Israeli Basketball Super League.-League system:The league contains 14 clubs that compete in a home-and-away round-robin. At the end of the season, the top eight clubs advance to the play-offs. The first round is...
  
   (2):
  • 1991, 2002

• Dutch Basketball League
  Dutch Basketball League
  The Dutch Basketball League , is the highest professional basketball league in the Netherlands. The league has a closed system...
  
  (3):
  • 2005, 2008, 2009

• Belgian Cup (2):
  • 2007, 2011

External links

• "Basketbalcoach Arik Shivek per onmiddellijk weg", Bovenop Amsterdam, October 9, 2009
• "Eurobasket Arik Shivek Interview", June 7, 2009
• "Arik Shivek", Eurobasket Israel, by Peter Buyse, June 1, 2011