YEREVAN — On September 19, 2019, the Basketball Federation of Armenia announced Zorik Isajane as the new head coach of Armenia’s U16 boys basketball team to compete in FIBA Europe in July 2020. Since 2015, Isajane has served as the athletic director and head coach of the Merdinian Armenian Evangelical School in Sherman Oaks, California. Previously, he served in the same capacity at the Tekeyan Arshag Dickranian School in Hollywood. He was the head coach of Raffi in Iran from 2007-2009. After relocating to Los Angeles from Tehran, Isajane was an assistant coach at Glendale College from 2011-2015.
Isajane competed throughout FIBA Asia as a member of the Iranian national basketball team and also played professional basketball in Iran. His playing career included leading Tehran to a silver medal in men’s basketball at the first Pan Armenian Games in Yerevan, Armenia in 1999. Isajane also served as the top assistant coach of the gold medal winning Los Angeles men’s (2011) and women’s (2015) basketball teams in the Pan Armenian Games.
Joining Isajane on the staff are Sevag Ketenjian of Lebanon and Sargis Stepanyan of Armenia. The team will be comprised of players from Armenia and the diaspora born in the year 2004 or later. FIBA Europe will announce the site of the upcoming tournament in Europe in the next few months.
