| Michael Katsuhisa | |
| League: | B.League |
| Team: | Shinshu Brave Warriors |
| Position: | Head coach |
| Height Cm: | 171 |
| Weight Kg: | 70 |
| Birth Date: | 26 April 1983 |
| Birth Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
| High School: | Bellevue High School (Bellevue, Washington) |
| College: | Senshu University |
| Career Start: | 2009 |
| Career End: | 2011 |
| Years1: | 2009–2011 |
| Team1: | Osaka Evessa |
| Cyears1: | 2011–2013 |
| Cteam1: | Yokohama B-Corsairs (asst.) |
| Cyears2: | 2013–2015 |
| Cteam2: | Yokohama B-Corsairs |
| Cyears3: | 2015–2017 |
| Cyears4: | 2017-2018 |
| Cteam4: | Link Tochigi Brex (asst) |
| Cyears5: | 2018- |
| Cteam5: | Shinshu Brave Warriors |
is a former professional basketball player and the head coach of the Shinshu Brave Warriors in the Japanese B.League.
Katsuhisa was born in Tokyo to a Japanese father and American mother. He attended Nishimachi International School in Tokyo, where his father was the headmaster, then Bellevue High School in Washington, United States.[1]
Katsuhisa was drafted fifth overall by the Osaka Evessa in the 2009 bj league draft. At the end of his first season he was released as a player and signed as a coach of the Evessa's reserve team. However, injuries to Evessa's main players saw he re-signed as a player in January 2011.
In the 2011 off-season he left the Evessa to become an assistant coach at the expansion team Yokohama B-Corsairs under former NBA player Reggie Geary. Katsuhisa was Geary's assistant and interpreter for two seasons, including during their championship 2012-13 season.[2] At the end of the 2012-13 season Geary left the B-Corsairs and Katsuhisa became head coach.[1] However, the team lost most of its championship stars and struggled under Katsuhisa. In his first season as head coach the B-Corsairs finished with a 24-28 record, missing out on the playoffs for the first time in the club's history.[3]
Katsuhisa remained as head coach for the 2014-15 season. The club struggled further however, with star Wayne Marshall missing a quarter of the season due to injury.[3] They finished the season in 10th place in the Eastern Conference with an 18-34 win–loss record.[4]
In June 2015 Katsuhisa was named as the coach of the Shimane Susanoo Magic for the 2015-16 season. He was replaced at the B-Corsairs by his assistant, Taketo Aoki.[4]
|- | style="text-align:left;"|Yokohama B-Corsairs| style="text-align:left;"|2013-14| 52||24||28|||| style="text-align:center;"|7th in Eastern|||-||-||-||| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs|-| style="text-align:left;"|Yokohama B-Corsairs| style="text-align:left;"|2014-15|52||18||34|||| style="text-align:center;"|10th in Eastern|||-||-||-||| style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs|-| style="text-align:left;"|Shimane Susanoo Magic| style="text-align:left;"|2015-16| 52||37||15|||| style="text-align:center;"|3rd in Western|||2||0||2||| style="text-align:center;"|Lost in first round|-| style="text-align:left;"|Shimane Susanoo Magic| style="text-align:left;"|2016-17| 60||51||9|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in B2 Western|||4||2||2||| style="text-align:center;"|Runners-up in B2|-|- style="background:#FDE910;"| style="text-align:left;"|Shinshu Brave Warriors| style="text-align:left;"|2018-19| 60||48||12|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in B2 Central|||4||4||0||| style="text-align:center;"|B2 Champion|-|- | style="text-align:left;"|Shinshu Brave Warriors| style="text-align:left;"|2019-20| 47||40||7|||| style="text-align:center;"|1st in B2 Central|||-||-||-||| style="text-align:center;"|-|-
Katsuhisa's older brother Geoffrey Katsuhisa works as an interpreter and has been the interpreter for the coaches of several clubs in Japan's professional basketball leagues.[1] In June 2015 Geoffrey himself became the head coach of the Iwate Big Bulls.[5]