Women's Basketball
Oct 29 (Wed)
7:00 PM
- Title:
- Video Coordinator
- Email:
- julian.assibey@colorado.edu
Julian Assibey is in his second year with the University of Colorado women’s basketball program and first as an assistant coach.
Assibey was promoted to the coaching position on June 23, 2015, after serving as the team’s video coordinator for the 2014-15 season. He will coach Colorado’s posts, headlined by senior Jamee Swan, an honorable mention to the 2014-15 All-Pac-12 Conference team and the Buffaloes’ leader in scoring, rebounding and blocked shots. Assibey also inherits a younger group with very high ceilings in terms of development, including Zoe Correal, Zoe Beard-Fails and Bri Watts.
As the team’s video coordinator, Assibey broke down game and practice video while assisting with scouting reports and Colorado’s basketball camps. He will maintain supervision in some of those video components in his new coaching role.
Prior to coming to Boulder, Assibey spent three seasons as an assistant coach at Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass. He helped the Warriors to a 12-win turnaround from 2011-12 to 2012-13 when Merrimack finished 17-12 and advanced to the Northeast-10 Conference semifinals.
Colorado is not foreign to Assibey who started his career on Lappe’s first Metro State College of Denver staff. He was an assistant for two seasons (2007-09), helping the Roadrunners to a third place Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference finish in 2007-08 and a fifth place showing in 2008-09.
Assibey returned to his alma mater, William Penn (Iowa), for one season (2009-10) and spent one season back in Colorado at Western State (2010-11) before joining the Merrimack staff.
A native of Downey, Calif., Assibey was a four year letterwinner at William Penn, and is among the school’s top five in career steals. He received his bachelor’s degree in Sports Administration and Strength & Conditioning in 2005 and followed that up with a master’s degree in Coaching and Athletic Administration from Concordia University (Mass.) in 2013.
Assibey and his wife Kaylee are the parents of two boys, Malachi (5) and Elijah (1).
