Category | Coach Date of Birth | 16.08.1936 Country | Australia
Clubs
Melbourne Tigers: 1970-2005
Australian National Team: 1971-1984
Club Highlights
104 games as head coach of the Australian National Team
Coached in 4 Olympic Games (Munich 1972, Montreal 1976, Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984) and 3 World Championships (Puerto Rico 1974, Philippines 1978 and Colombia 1982)
2 times Champion of the Australian League (NBL): 1993 and 1997
Individual Highlights
Played for the Australian National Team for a decade (including the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games and the 1970 Ljubljana World Championship)
Formed with his son Andrew the longest standing all-time father-son partnership, not only in basketball but in the history of sports in general
Authored the books 'Better Basketball' in 1977 and 'Winning Basketball: A Training Manual for Team Players and Coaches', with his son Andrew, in 1992
Medal of the Order of Australia in 1985
3 times NBL Coach of the Year: 1989, 1997 and 1999
Inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1989
Member of the Technical Commission of FIBA: 1990-present
Australian Sports Medal in 2000
Australian Centenary Medal in 2001
Inaugural inductee into the Australian Basketball Hall of Fame, both as a player and as a coach, in 2004
Life Member of Basketball Australia and of the Australian Basketball Coaches Association and Board Member of the Sport Australia Hall of Fame
Father and son, Lindsay and Andrew, announced jointly their retirement from basketball on 12th May 2005
The Lindsay Gaze Trophy is awarded annually to the NBL's Coach of the Year
The award for Australia's Male International Player of the Year was recently renamed the Gaze Medal in Lindsay's and Andrew's Gaze honour (Andrew represented Australia as a player in 5 Olympic Games and in 4 World Championships)