Arie Selinger

Arie Selinger was born in 1937 in Kraków

Selinger was born in Kraków, Poland, on 5 April 1937. His father was a civil engineer and his mother a nurse. During World War II he was held in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and his father died in Auschwitz.

In 1945 he came alone to the Land of Israel on the ship Mataroa and was taken to the Atlit detention camp. He was then sent to Kibbutz Ein HaMifratz. He took up athletics and played for the Israel men's national volleyball team from 1954 to 1963.

In 1963 he finished physical education studies at the Wingate Institute and worked as a teacher. He coached the Israel women's team, which placed eighth at the 1967 European Championship. In 1969 he left Israel and earned a master's degree and a doctorate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

He coached the United States women's team from 1975 to 1984, winning bronze at the 1982 World Championship and silver at the 1984 Olympics. He led the Netherlands men's team to silver at the 1992 Olympics and later coached in Japan until 2006. He was inducted into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame in 1995.

From 2007 to 2016 he coached the Israel women's team, which reached the 2011 European Championship finals. From 2018 to 2020 he coached Maccabi Tel Aviv. His son Avital Selinger is a volleyball player and coach.