Triano

As the head coach of Canada's Men's National Basketball team, Jay Triano led the Canadian squad to clinch a silver medal and Olympic berth at the 1999 COPABA Tournament of the Americas, followed by an impressive showing and seventh-place finish at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. At the 2001 COPABA tourney in Neuquen, Argentina, Triano's Team Canada won a bronze medal and a spot at the 2002 World Championships.

In September 2002, the Toronto Raptors added Triano to their coaching staff as an assistant coach.

Triano, a three-time Olympian, was a member of Canada's National team from 1978-88 and served as team captain from 1981-88. He played his collegiate basketball at Simon Fraser University and then took over as head coach a couple of years later. His introduction into the international basketball coaching ranks was as an assistant coach under Ken Shields and in 1994 he coached the Junior National squad at the COPABA tournament in Argentina. Triano left SFU to join the Vancouver Grizzlies of the NBA, where he was a radio colour commentator as well as the director of their community relations department.

Triano is a member of the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame (inducted in 1993), the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame (inducted in 1995), the Niagara Falls Hall of Fame (inducted in 1990) and the Simon Fraser University Hall of Fame (inducted in 1986).