Harlan Cohen
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Born | Los Angeles, California, U.S. | November 6, 1934||||||||||||||
Died | March 19, 2020 | (aged 85)||||||||||||||
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Harlan Cohen (November 6, 1934 – March 19, 2020) was an American volleyball coach who led both the United States men's and women's national teams during the mid-1960s.[1]
As a player, Cohen was a member of Team USA's volleyball team at the 1965 Maccabiah Games in Israel, along with Gene Selznick, who had played on world championship teams.[2]
Cohen coached the men in 1966. He coached the women to a gold medal at the 1967 Pan American Games and a silver medal at the 1967 World Championships in Tokyo. He was head coach of the USA women's team for the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
Cohen coached at Santa Monica College alongside Burt DeGroot from 1961 to 1972. Their teams won seven USA Volleyball (USVBA) college championships. He later was the head coach at Pepperdine University from 1975 to 1976 where his team won the USVBA championship in 1975.
Recognition
- In 1990 he was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.[3]
- Cohen received the George J. Fisher Leader in Volleyball Award from USA Volleyball in 1999.
- In 2000, he was awarded an All-Time Great Volleyball Coach Award from USA Volleyball.
References
- ^ "Harlan Cohen". Olympedia. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- ^ "12-Man U.S. Volleyball Team Picked for Maccabiah Games". timesmachine.nytimes.com.
- ^ "Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Home".
Sources
- Ronberg, Gary (June 5, 1967). "Playing It The Japanese Way". Sports Illustrated. 26 (23): 30–32.
- Press Release (March 28, 2003). "USA Volleyball announces 75th Anniversary All-Era Coaches". USA Volleyball. Archived from the original on March 16, 2009. Retrieved October 19, 2008.
- Biography at the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
- 1934 births
- 2020 deaths
- American volleyball coaches
- Pepperdine Waves men's volleyball coaches
- Volleyball players at the 1963 Pan American Games
- American men's volleyball players
- Maccabiah Games competitors for the United States
- Maccabiah Games competitors by sport
- Competitors at the 1957 Maccabiah Games
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States
- Pan American Games medalists in volleyball
- Santa Monica Corsairs coaches
- UCLA Bruins coaches
- Sports coaches from Los Angeles
- Olympic coaches for the United States
- Medalists at the 1963 Pan American Games
- Volleyball players from Los Angeles
- UCLA Bruins men's volleyball coaches
- American volleyball biography stubs