Jose "Joe" Lipa, Jr. is a Filipino basketball coach and executive who currently coaching the

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's 3x3 team in the PBA 3x3. Lipa formerly coached his alma mater, the

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, in the

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men's basketball. He also had a head coaching stint for the

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, the Shell Turbo Chargers and the

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of the professional

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. Lipa is also a former head coach of the national basketball team of the

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, coaching the team to a bronze medal finish in the

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. He was also named the Commissioner of the UAAP for its basketball tournament in 2005.Lipa says RP 5 has chance.
/ref> He currently serves as the tournament director and commissioner of the

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and the Filoil EcoOil Preseason Cup.

Profile

An Economics graduate at the State University, Joe Lipa played with the Maroons in 1963–66. He also donned the San Miguel jersey in the MICAA in 1965–66, where he played as a power forward. Starting in 1981, he was assigned to handle the UP Maroons after serving as assistant coach way back in 1978, Lipa was sent on a basketball scholarship to the United States in 1984, where he observed the coaching prowess of famed mentor

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during sessions at the

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. He made the trip through the help of the UP Sports Foundation, courtesy of the UP President, and his Sigma Rho fraternity brothers. In 1986, Joe led his alumni, the

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to its first UAAP championship after 47 years.

Coaching record

Collegiate record

Philippine Basketball Association record

References

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