Šarūnas Sakalauskas

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Šarūnas Sakalauskas (born July 17, 1960 ) is a Lithuanian basketball coach . From 2001 to January 2009 he was the head coach of the Bundesliga club Eisbären Bremerhaven .

career

Sakalauskas studied from 1982 at the Lithuanian Sports University (LVKKI). Parallel to his studies, he was a coach at a sports school in Marijampolė and coach of the local club's men's team in the same city. From 1992 to 1999 he was a lecturer at the Institute for Physical Culture of the Lithuanian Police Academy and between 1992 and 1998 coach of the men's team of Vilniaus Sakalai , which he led in the first division. In 1998 he took over the post of head coach at the Lithuanian top club Lietuvos rytas Vilnius and was in office until 2000.

At the beginning of 2001 he took over the position of head coach at the Eisbären Bremerhaven . In 2005 he led the North Germans to promotion to the basketball league . In the 2005/06 season, the polar bears reached the playoff semi-finals and the semi-finals in the cup competition under the leadership of the Lithuanian. Sakalauskas was then named the best coach of the 2005/06 game year. In the 2006/07 season Sakalauskas' team qualified fourth for the Bundesliga playoffs and was eliminated there in the quarterfinals against eventual title winners Cologne. In the cup competition, too, the Lithuanian led the polar bears into the top four for the second time in a row. In 2008 Sakalauskas was again with the polar bears in the cup final tournament, in the playoffs in the spring of 2008 against Alba Berlin was the final stop. After a streak of 15 defeats in a row, he announced his resignation as polar bear head coach in January 2009.

After the end of his tenure in Bremerhaven, Sakalauskas returned to his home country Lithuania. He took up a lectureship at the University of Mykolas Romeris in Vilnius and was briefly sports director of Žalgiris Kaunas in 2010 . In 2011 he became the sporting director of the basketball academy in Vilnius founded by the former NBA player Šarūnas Marčiulionis .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eisbären Bremerhaven: Eisbären Bremerhaven ›History. Retrieved January 31, 2017 .
  2. ↑ kicker online, Nuremberg, Germany: After 15 defeats: Sarunas Sakalauskas resigns . In: kicker online . ( kicker.de [accessed on January 31, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Sakalauskas, Sarūnas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian basketball coach
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1960