Marina Maljković is a Serbian professional basketball coach, currently coaching Union Lyon Basket Féminin.
Background
As a daughter of a famous Serbian coach, four-times Euroleague winner Božidar Maljković, Marina Maljković has been given an opportunity to start coaching career at the age of 16, when she became an assistant coach in Abeilles de Rueil, a French club she was playing for at the time.
Education
In 2002, she graduated from the The College for Sports Coaches in Belgrade.
Career
In the same year, she became the head coach of the female section of KK Ušće, aged 21. She was the coach of the youth categories, and, at the same time, she managed to lead the senior team as the club advanced from the third to the first league of Serbia and Montenegro in just two years. In 2007, Maljković became the head coach of the female section of ŽKK Hemofarm, winning two league titles and two national cups in the following two years.
In 2009, she moved to ŽKK Partizan.
In September 2013, Maljković signed a two-year contract with Union Lyon Basket Féminin, a club competing in the Ligue Féminine de Basketball, the top women's French professional basketball league. In August 2011, Maljković has been appointed head coach of the Serbia women"s national basketball team
At the EuroBasket Women 2013, Serbia national team managed to pass into the semifinals, which was the greatest national team success since the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991. Aged 32, Maljković was the youngest, and the only female head coach at the championship.
In the autumn of 2015, she extended her contract with the Basketball Federation of Serbia to be the team"s selector over next four years.
She also requested that one third of her salary be forwarded to all 12 clubs of the First Women"s Basketball League of Serbia. Club competitions competitions.