Английская Википедия:Fritz Gaston
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Matthew "Fritz" Gaston is a Filipino former basketball player and coach.
Career
Playing career
College
The basketball team of the Ateneo de Manila University had Gaston as a player. He was part of the Ateneo squad which won two consecutive titles in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in 1975 and 1976.[1] He was part of the last NCAA Ateneo squad before the university left the collegiate league in 1978 to transfer to the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP).[2]
Club
Gaston also played in the Philippine Basketball Association from 1979 to 1986.[2] He played for multiple teams namely as the U/Tex Wranglers (1980), San Miguel Beermen (1983), Crispa Redmanizers (1984), Manila Beer Brewmasters (1985) and the Great Taste Coffee Makers (1986). With U/Tex he clinched the 1980 PBA All-Filipino Conference title.[1]
National team
He was also a player for the Philippine youth national team in 1977.[1]
Coaching career
Gaston became coach of his alma mater's basketball team. He led the Ateneo Blue Eagles to their first ever UAAP title in Season 51 (1989).[1]
In 2003, Gaston became the head coach of the Philippines women's national basketball team.[3] He guided the team to a bronze medal finish at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games in Thailand and a silver medal finish at the 2007 SEABA Championship for Women.[4]
Sports administration
Gaston was commissioner for the Games and Amusement Board, a government body which deals with professional sports in the Philippines, from 2011 to 2017.[3] He would be later appointed as a commissioner for the Philippine Sports Commission on March 24, 2023 by President Bongbong Marcos.[5]
Personal life
Gaston has Silay, Negros Occidental as his hometown.[3][6] Gaston is married to Aurora Mandanas Gaston, a former beauty pageant contestant who won the 1984 Miss Asia Pacific.[7]
His daughter, Pauline is a professional volleyball player who has played in the Filipino Premier Volleyball League.[8][9] Therese, another daughter is a former collegiate volleyball player and a beauty pageant queen like her mother.[7][10]
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