Alar Varrak
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| TalTech | |||||||||||||||
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| Title | Head coach | ||||||||||||||
| League | Korvpalli Meistriliiga Estonian-Latvian Basketball League | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
| Born | April 20, 1982 Jõgeva, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Career information | |||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 1999–2005 | ||||||||||||||
| Position | Point guard | ||||||||||||||
| Coaching career | 2006–present | ||||||||||||||
| Career history | |||||||||||||||
Playing | |||||||||||||||
| 1999–2002 | Tallinna Kalev | ||||||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | Ehitustööriist/Kalev | ||||||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Tallinna Kalev | ||||||||||||||
| 2004–2005 | Audentese Ülikool | ||||||||||||||
Coaching | |||||||||||||||
| 2006–2007 | Noortekoondis/Audentes (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Noortekoondis/Triobet | ||||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Triobet/Dalkia (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2008–2017 | Estonia (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2008–2012 | BC Kalev (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2017 | BC Kalev | ||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Dzūkija Alytus | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Estonia (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Ural Yekaterinburg | ||||||||||||||
| 2020–2021 | BC Kalev (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021–present | TalTech | ||||||||||||||
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Alar Varrak (born 20 April 1982) is an Estonian basketball coach and a former point guard. He is the head coach of TalTech/ALEXELA of in the Estonian–Latvian Basketball League.
Varrak was born in Jõgeva, and spent his short playing career in the Estonian League. In 2008 he became the assistant coach of Kalev/Cramo and succeeded Aivar Kuusmaa as the head coach on 24 November 2012.[1] Varrak was fired from Kalev/Cramo in November 2017.[2] In January 2018 he became the head coach of Lithuanian League team Dzūkija Alytus.[3] He left for health reasons in April. In July 2018 he was elected as the sporting director of the Estonian Basketball Association.[4] He resigned from the sporting director position in July 2019 and signed with Russian Basketball Super League 1 team Ural Yekaterinburg.[5] He was fired from the team in November 2019 due to poor results.
Achievements with club
As player
- Tallinna Kalev
- Korvpalli Meistriliiga (1): 2001–02
- Estonian Basketball Cup (1): 2001
As coach
- Noortekoondis/Audentes
- I Liiga (1): 2007
- Kalev/Cramo
- Korvpalli Meistriliiga (7): 2008–09, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17
- Estonian Basketball Cup (4): 2008, 2015, 2016, 2020