Zach O'Brien | |
Position: | Assistant Coach |
League: | WNBA |
Team: | New York Liberty |
Birth Place: | Schenectady, New York, U.S. |
Nationality: | American |
High School: | Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons |
College: | Saint Joseph's College of Maine |
Draft League: | NBA |
Draft Year: | 2012 |
Coach Start: | 2019 |
Cyears1: | 2020–2021 |
Cteam1: | Phoenix Mercury (player dev.) |
Cyears2: | 2022–Present |
Cteam2: | New York Liberty (assistant) |
Highlights: | As assistant coach: |
Zach O'Brien is an assistant coach for New York Liberty in the WNBA.[1]
Prior to the Liberty, he was the Director of Player Development of the Phoenix Mercury. His professional coaching career began as a video coordinator for the Mercury (2019) and the Northern Arizona Suns (2019–2020) in the NBA G League.[2] [3]
O'Brien is from Schenectady, New York, where he attended Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons High School. He played basketball at Saint Joseph's College of Maine where he scored more than 1,500 career points for the Monks, earning Great Northeast Athletic Conference All-First Team honors as a senior in 2011–12. He graduated in 2012.[4] He subsequently played two years for Oxford Brookes University in England.[5]