Lindsay John Casson Gaze was born on 16 August 1936 and is an Australian former basketball player and coach.
24 Facts About Lindsay Gaze
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Lindsay Gaze played for Australia in three Summer Olympics qualification tournaments, between 1960 and 1968, and was the head coach of the senior Australian basketball team at four Summer Olympics, between 1972 and 1984.
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Lindsay Gaze was the NBL Coach of the Year in 1989,1997 and 1999, and is second all-time in the number of coaching wins in that league.
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Lindsay Gaze is a member of the Australian Basketball Hall of Fame, as both a player and coach, and is an associate member of the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.
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Lindsay Gaze has been inducted into both the FIBA Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, as a coach.
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Lindsay Gaze has two older brothers, Barry and Tony, who is a former coach of the Australian national women's basketball team, the Opals.
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Lindsay Gaze is the great-uncle of Mark Gaze's daughter, Kate Gaze, who played for the Canberra Capitals, in Australia's Women's National Basketball League.
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Lindsay and Barry Gaze played in the Victorian Football Association for Prahran, and they were both selected as members of an Australian rules team that played an exhibition match during the 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympics, although Lindsay didn't take the field.
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Lindsay Gaze held the position until his retirement in 2005, during which time the number of registered players in Victoria rose from around 2,000 in 1958 to over 200,000.
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Lindsay Gaze was selected for the senior Australian basketball team for the 1960 Bologna Pre-Olympic Tournament, which was the first Australian basketball team to travel overseas to compete for a place at the Summer Olympics.
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Lindsay Gaze soon established himself as one of Australia's leading basketball players, establishing an international reputation, when he was selected as a member of the All-Star Five at the 1962 Philippines Invitational Basketball Tournament.
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Lindsay Gaze represented Australia during the 1960 Bologna, 1964 Yokohama, and 1968 Monterrey Summer Olympics world qualification tournaments, but Australia only qualified to compete at the 1964 Games.
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Lindsay Gaze developed a reputation as a fanatical trainer, training two or three times a week with his club and at home.
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Lindsay Gaze coached the Australian national under-16 and under-18 squads, during his playing career.
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Lindsay Gaze's son, Andrew, was a part of the team that he coached in 1984.
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Lindsay Gaze would write his first book, Better Basketball, in 1977.
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Lindsay Gaze was a part of every Australian Boomers' Olympics team as a player or coach, from 1960 to 1984.
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Lindsay Gaze covered each of the campaigns, year by year, on the Aussie Hoopla podcast.
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Lindsay Gaze was the inaugural head coach of the Melbourne Tigers, at the start of the NBL, in 1984.
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Lindsay Gaze retired in May 2005, after coaching the team for 22 seasons.
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Lindsay Gaze coached in a total of 651 games, and recorded 339 victories.
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Lindsay Gaze was a widely respected coach in the NBL, winning the league's Coach of the Year award three times during his career.
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Lindsay Gaze announced his retirement from coaching basketball, on the same day that his son, Andrew Gaze, announced his retirement from playing basketball, after having played in 612 NBL games.
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Lindsay Gaze had coached Andrew Gaze during his son's entire career as an NBL player, with the pair forming the longest standing father-son partnership in the history of world sport.