Michael Ray "Jamike" Jarin is a Filipino basketball coach who is the head coach for the

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of the PBA.

Career

Early years

When he was 18, he coached a team with one of its players was future La Salle player B.J. Manalo, when Manalo was still a 9 year-old kid in an inter-village Filinvest tournament in 1990, Filinvest I was a neighborhood on Commonwealth Avenue. In 1997, Jarin coached the girls varsity team of Our Lord’s Grace Montessori High.

Ateneo

He started coaching for the Ateneo Blue Eaglets when

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' brother

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, then coach of Eaglets was leaving for MBA. Jarin accepted to fill-in the post and won multiple UAAP juniors championships. One of his notable players was Chot Reyes' nephew Jai, who shot a dagger in 2003 Finals Game 1 win against Adamson Baby Falcons. That time in Eaglets, he also concurrently served as an assistant to seniors team Blue Eagles under

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, when Black invited him to join.

U-17 teams

Jarin also coached the U-17 teams in 2014.

San Beda and NU

After coaching Eaglets, he later coached the

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, where he won several championships in both teams. He also served as head coach for

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from 2017 until 2019.

Talk 'N Text and Meralco assistant

He also served as an assistant coach for PBA teams like

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and

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UE assistant

He previously served as assistant coach for

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Phoenix Fuel Masters

Jarin served as an assistant coach for the

. When

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was hired to coach the

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, Jarin served as an interim coach, and later promoted as the team's head coach with a three-year contract extension.

Coaching record

Collegiate record

Personal life

Being the youngest of four children, Jarin completed his primary and high school education at San Beda. He then attended Mendiola for two years of college before moving to FEU to pursue a degree in biology. His parents own Fairview General Hospital, which has thirty beds, and they are also doctors. His mother, Dr. Amelia Jarin, is the administrator of the hospital, while his father, Dr. Hermogenes Jarin, is the medical director. Iver, Jarin's 13-year-old son, and Jane, his wife, are her top patients as a nurse. Before basketball coaching, Jamike Jarin worked as a medical representative.

References

Living people TNT Tropang 5G coaches Year of birth missing (living people) Ateneo Blue Eagles men's basketball coaches San Beda Red Lions basketball coaches Meralco Bolts coaches NU Bulldogs basketball coaches UE Red Warriors basketball coaches Phoenix Fuel Masters coaches {{Philippines-basketball-bio-stub