Anna Stammberger

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Anna Marie Stammberger , née Anna Marie Pendergast (born June 26, 1961 in Charlottetown ) is a Canadian basketball coach and former player.

career

She grew up in the city of Kensington on Prince Edward Island and started playing basketball in 1972. As a teenager, she also played volleyball and athletics . In 1978 she began studying sports at Dalhousie University in Halifax and was a member of the college volleyball team, then the basketball team. In the summer of 1980, the 1.80 meter tall player took part in a training camp that was used for pre-selection for the Canadian national team, but was not called to the selection. In 1982 she was accepted into the squad of the Canadian national team. In 1983 she finished her university education. During her time at Dalhousie University, she was selected in the 1982/83 season among the top five players in the Canadian University League CIS after she had scored an average of 22.7 points and 9.6 rebounds during the year.

While she was an assistant coach at Dalhousie University from 1983 to 1985, she took part in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles with the Canadian national team and became the first Olympic athlete from Prince Edward Island. In 1983 she had already played for Canada at the World Cup, in 1986 and 1990 further World Cup participations were added. There were also assignments for Canada at Universiades and Pan-American Games.

From 1985 she played as a professional in Germany. There she met her future husband, Hartwig Stammberger. She played in the Bundesliga in Wolfenbüttel and then from 1995 she worked for BG Bonn , also in the top German league, for seven years as a player and player-coach, before starting in 2002 she only acted as a trainer. She returned to Canada in 2003 and started teaching and basketball coaching at Kensington Intermediate Senior High School. In the same year she was inducted into the Sports Hall of Fame on Prince Edward Island. In 2009 she became the coach of the women's basketball team at Dalhousie University. There she also trained her daughter Tessa until 2016 , son Sven played for Dalhousie's men's team before he embarked on a professional career like his sister.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c d e Anna Pendergast-Stammberger | Prince Edward Island Sports Hall of Fame | PEI Sports Hall of Fame. Accessed August 31, 2018 .
  2. ^ U Sports Hoops - University Basketball in Canada. Retrieved August 31, 2018 (American English).
  3. ↑ Anna PENDERGAST - Olympic basketball | Canada . In: International Olympic Committee . June 13, 2016 ( olympic.org [accessed August 31, 2018]).
  4. ↑ archive.fiba.com: Players. Accessed August 31, 2018 .
  5. ↑ archive.fiba.com: Players. Accessed August 31, 2018 .
  6. ↑ archive.fiba.com: Players. Accessed August 31, 2018 .
  7. ^ The Dalhousie Tigers - Dalhousie University. Accessed August 31, 2018 .
  8. ^ Braunschweiger Zeitung, Braunschweig, Germany: Recommendation from Wolfenbüttels ex-star Stammberger . ( braunschweiger-zeitung.de [accessed on August 31, 2018]).
  9. ↑ - In an emergency, Anna Stammberger wants to help out . In: General-Anzeiger Bonn . September 15, 2002 ( general-anzeiger-bonn.de [accessed on August 31, 2018]).
  10. ↑ 'Proud to be a Dalhousie Tiger again' . In: Dalhousie News . ( dal.ca [accessed August 31, 2018]).
  11. ^ Stammberger gaining national recognition . In: Dalhousie News . ( dal.ca [accessed August 31, 2018]).
  12. ↑ https://tigers-tuebingen.de/der-naechste-neuzugang-sven-stammberger-startet-profi-karriere-in-tuebingen/
personal data
SURNAME Stammberger, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stammberger, Anna Marie (full name); Pendergast, Anna Marie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian basketball coach and former player
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottetown