Takeshi Yamamoto joined the Cal State East Bay women's basketball staff for the 2018-19 season as an assistant coach specializing in mental skills training. He brings more than three decades of experience in coaching and education.
Yamamoto spent 30 years at Shiga Women's College in Japan from 1987-2017, teaching in the Department of Childcare and Preschool Education and serving as head coach of the basketball team. He also worked as an assistant coach with the Japan Women's Basketball National Team for five years, and has served on numerous committees in the Japan Basketball Association.
Yamamoto specializes in mental training, utilizing a system that applies the psychoanalytic theory of transactional analysis to draw out an "Ego-gram," which is an objective personality assessment. It also focuses on body awareness during training. He has spent the last decade implementing this system with collegiate basketball programs in the United States, including three seasons with both Long Beach State and Santa Ana College, five seasons at Texas A&M-Commerce, and most recently one year at UC Davis in 2017-18.Â
