Vincent Lavandier

Lavandier spent much of his early coaching career in his homeland, learning as an assistant under Jacques Monclar at Paris Basket Racing and Grégor Beugnot at Élan Chalon.^[1]

He took his first full head coaching role with Trappes in the NM1 league in 2006. He spent time as head coach of Lagardere Paris in Women's National 1 and then three years as an assistant coach at JL Bourg Basket.^[2] Lavandier took over at Angers in 2012, and led them to the NM1 title in 2014 and promotion to LNB Pro B.^[3] In June 2017, Lavandier became head coach of Union Tarbes-Lourdes.^[4]

In February 2019, Lavandier was appointed interim head coach of the Glasgow Rocks, for the remainder of the 2018–19 season.^[5] In April 2019, he signed a deal to remain head coach until the end of the 2020–21 season.^[6] He was voted Coach of the Year for the 2019–2020 season by the Basketball Journalists Association.^[7]

On March 8, 2022, Lavandier signed as head coach of the Montreal Alliance, an expansion team in the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL).^[8] On January 23, 2023, the Alliance announced that he would not return after posting a 4–16 record in 2022.^[9]