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Tom Maher (born September 4, 1952 in Melbourne, Victoria) is a basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
 coach from Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, who is the most successful coach in the WNBL history, having won seven WNBL titles. He was WNBL Coach of the Year in 1987 and 1992, and is a Life Member of the WNBL.

Maher led the Australia women's national basketball team
Australia women's national basketball team

The Australia Women's National Basketball Team is the women's National Basketball team for Australia. They won Gold at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games 2006 defeating New Zealand's Tall Ferns in the final match with a score of 77-39....
 to their first Olympic medal (bronze) in 1996 and then on to silver at the 2000 Summer Olympics
2000 Summer Olympics

The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 13 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....
 in Sydney
Sydney

Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
. He was head coach of New Zealand
New Zealand women's national basketball team

The New Zealand Women's National Basketball Team named The Tall Ferns is the women's National Basketball team for New Zealand.|}| valign="top" |...
 in Athens 2004, and coached the Tall Ferns to their best-ever performance of eighth.






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Tom Maher (born September 4, 1952 in Melbourne, Victoria) is a basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
 coach from Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, who is the most successful coach in the WNBL history, having won seven WNBL titles. He was WNBL Coach of the Year in 1987 and 1992, and is a Life Member of the WNBL.

Maher led the Australia women's national basketball team
Australia women's national basketball team

The Australia Women's National Basketball Team is the women's National Basketball team for Australia. They won Gold at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games 2006 defeating New Zealand's Tall Ferns in the final match with a score of 77-39....
 to their first Olympic medal (bronze) in 1996 and then on to silver at the 2000 Summer Olympics
2000 Summer Olympics

The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 13 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....
 in Sydney
Sydney

Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
. He was head coach of New Zealand
New Zealand women's national basketball team

The New Zealand Women's National Basketball Team named The Tall Ferns is the women's National Basketball team for New Zealand.|}| valign="top" |...
 in Athens 2004, and coached the Tall Ferns to their best-ever performance of eighth. Will coach the Chinese National Team at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

Personal life

Maher is married to former Opals
Australia women's national basketball team

The Australia Women's National Basketball Team is the women's National Basketball team for Australia. They won Gold at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games 2006 defeating New Zealand's Tall Ferns in the final match with a score of 77-39....
 captain Robyn Maher
Robyn Maher

Robyn Maher is a retired female basketball player from Australia, who played for the Sydney Uni Flames. A three-time Olympian she was a member of the Australia women's national basketball team that claimed the bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia....
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