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1617 BARNABY CRADDOCK

Barnaby Craddock

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Biography

Coach Craddock is currently in his 20th season coaching U SPORTS Basketball including the past 12 seasons leading the University of Alberta Golden Bears. Through his coaching career he has also been heavily involved as a coach with a variety of Canadian National team programs, CEBL professional teams and Provincial Youth teams.

Coach Craddock is the only coach in U SPORTS basketball history to qualify three separate programs to the Final 8 National Championship; Brandon Bobcats (2007), UFV Cascades (2012) and University of Alberta Golden Bears (2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022).

2012-13 was Craddock’s first year as the Head Coach of the Golden Bears Basketball program. After 12 years he has led the Bears to a conference record of 170-50 (.772), won the Canada West Conference championship twice (2014 & 2017), U SPORTS silver medal (2007), and National Bronze medals in both 2014 and 2022.

Prior to coaching at the University of Alberta, Craddock was the head coach at UFV for five seasons, and Brandon University for two seasons.

In his first two U SPORTS head coach campaigns with Brandon University (2005-2007), Craddock qualified for the playoffs both seasons, recorded a 30-12 conference record, and was named the 2007 national Coach of the Year. Craddock also won a 2007 CIS silver medal.

Coach Craddock then joined the University of the Fraser Valley, which had just entered U SPORTS and Canada West play after competing in the Canadian Collegiate Athletics Association; in five seasons, he shepherded the fledgling program to four playoff seasons, their first U SPORTS national ranking, the 2012 Canada West silver medal, and a fourth-place finish at the 2012 CIS Championship. 

Craddock has been the head coach for two Canada West gold medal teams, five Canada West silver medals, a U SPORTS silver medal, and two U SPORTS Bronze Medals. He was also awarded the 2007 and 2022 U SPORTS Coach of the Year awards, and the 2018 Canada West Coach of the Year award.

Coach Craddock was an assistant coach with four Canada Basketball National teams.  As well as being the Head coach of the Canadian Men's Team that finished 7th out of 22 teams in the 2015 World University Games in Gwangju, Korea.

His time as an assistant coach for Canada Basketball, included the 2011 FISU Games team that earned silver in Shenzhen, China, and Canada Basketball Men’s (U-17) Cadet team (World Championships in Lithuania, 2012), (FIBA Americas Championship in Uruguay, 2013), (World Championships in Dubai, UAE, 2014).
 
In 2019 Coach Craddock was named the Inaugural GM and Head Coach of the Edmonton Stinger franchise in Canada’s professional basketball league the CEBL.
Prior to coaching, Craddock played at the University of Lethbridge (1994-97), where he was a CIS second team all-Canadian (1997), and two-time Canada West Conference all-star (1996, 1997).  He played professionally in Europe from 1997-2002.

Coaching History

School Year Overall Conference Playoffs Conference Result National Result
Alberta 11 Seasons 264-106 170-50 29-26
U SPORTS 19 Seasons 385-220 253-115 40-40
Brandon 2005-06 18-18 10-10 1-2 -
2006-07 35-6 20-2 5-2 Silver Silver
Fraser Valley 2007-08 16-20 12-11
2008-09 8-21 7-16 -
2009-10 16-12 11-7 0-2
2010-11 19-22 10-14 1-2
2011-12 25-15 13-5 4-4 Silver Semifinals
Alberta 2012-13 21-13 14-8 1-2 t-5
2013-14 38-7 20-2 6-2 Champion (1) Bronze
2014-15 20-12 14-6 0-2 t-5 -
2015-16 14-21 10-10 2-3 t-5 -
2016-17 25-13 14-6 4-3 Champion (2) t-7
2017-18 28-7 19-1 4-3 Silver t-7
2018-19 23-10 15-5 3-5 Semifinalist t-7
2019-20 27-4 19-1 4-2 Silver 5
2020-21
2021-22 26-2 16-0 4-2 Silver Bronze
2022-23 23-7 15-5 0-1 t-5 -
2023-24 19-10 14-6 1-1 Quarter-finalist -
 

GOLDEN BEARS BASKETBALL COACHING RECORD HISTORY


COACHING ACCOLADES

2x Canada West Champion
2014, 2017
2x U SPORTS Coach of the Year
2007, 2022
4x Canada West Coach of the Year
2007, 2018, 2020, 2022

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