Quick Facts
Biography
Ivica Skelin (born September 19, 1973) is a Croatian basketball coach.
Career
Skelin started his coaching career with Verviers-Pepinster in Belgium as an assistant-coach in 2001. He was assistant-coach till 2004, after that year he coached youth teams for the Belgian club. In 2005, Skelin became head coach of KK Split in Croatia. He coached the team one year, after that season he went back to Verviers-Pepinster this time as an assistant-coach. He was head coach for two seasons for Verviers-Pepinster. From 2008 till 2010, Skelin was the head coach of the Leuven Bears, also from Belgium. In 2010 he returned to Verviers-Pepinster once again for one season as head coach. After being an assistant-coach with Spirou Basket Charleroi in the 2010-11 season, he became the head coach of Dutch club GasTerra Flames that plays in the Dutch Basketball League in December 2012 as a replacement for fired coach Hakim Salem. After the season, he signed an extension for two more years with the club. In the 2013–14 season he won the double – both the Dutch Basketball League and NBB Cup – with the Flames.
He became head coach of KK Split in November 2015.
Trophies
- Dutch Basketball League (1):
- 2013–14
- NBB Cup (2):
- 2013–14, 2014–15
- Dutch Basketball Supercup (1):
- 2014
- DBL Coach of the Year (2):
- 2013–14, 2014–15