Jim Boylen
Basketball Coach
1965 –
Who is Jim Boylen?
Jim Boylen is an assistant basketball coach for the San Antonio Spurs. He is a former head basketball coach of the University of Utah Utes. He had coached the program from 2007 to 2011 before being fired on March 12, 2011. The Utah job was his first head coaching position after spending over a decade as an assistant at both the NBA and NCAA levels. He replaced Ray Giacoletti, who was fired from Utah on March 3, 2007. Prior to joining Utah, Boylen spent two years at Michigan State University as the Spartans top assistant under Tom Izzo. During his time in East Lansing, Boylen was considered to be among the top assistant coaches in the NCAA.
Boylen was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1965 and attended the University of Maine, where he was a captain during both his junior and senior seasons. As a senior, he earned First Team All-North Atlantic Conference honors after averaging 21 points per contest. That same year, he finished runner-up in the conference Player of the Year voting to Northeastern's Reggie Lewis. Boylen earned a bachelor's degree in business from Maine in 1987.
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- Born
- Apr 18, 1965
East Grand Rapids - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Maine
- Lived in
- East Grand Rapids
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on July 23, 2013
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