Sonny Allen | |
Birth Date: | 8 March 1936 |
Birth Place: | Moundsville, West Virginia, U.S. |
Death Place: | Reno, Nevada, U.S. |
Player Years1: | 1956–1960 |
Player Team1: | Marshall |
Player Positions: | Point guard |
Coach Years1: | 1960–1965 |
Coach Team1: | Marshall (assistant) |
Coach Years2: | 1965–1975 |
Coach Team2: | Old Dominion |
Coach Years3: | 1975–1980 |
Coach Team3: | SMU |
Coach Years4: | 1980–1987 |
Coach Team4: | Nevada |
Coach Years5: | 1988 |
Coach Team5: | Las Vegas Silver Streaks |
Coach Years6: | 1989–1990 |
Coach Team6: | Santa Barbara Islanders |
Coach Years7: | 1997–1998 |
Coach Team7: | Dallas Mavericks (assistant) |
Coach Years8: | 1998 |
Coach Team8: | Detroit Shock (assistant) |
Coach Years9: | 1999–2001 |
Coach Team9: | Sacramento Monarchs |
Overall Record: | 613–383 |
Championships: | NCAA Division II (1975) |
Sonny Allen (March 8, 1936 – September 11, 2020) was an American college basketball coach. He was the head coach at Old Dominion University from 1965 to 1975; leading the Monarchs to six NCAA College/Division II Tournaments, winning in 1975, finishing runner-up in 1971 and finishing fourth in 1976. He then accepted the Southern Methodist University job, spending the 1975–76 through 1979–80 seasons in Dallas, he then moved to the University of Nevada, Reno from 1980 to 1987.
He was later the head coach for the Sacramento Monarchs of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 1999 to 2001.[1] [2] He died of Parkinson's Disease in Reno, Nevada.[3]