Arne Alig

Arne Alig
Player information
Full name	Arne Christian Alig
birthday	April 8, 1968
place of birth	Hanover , Germany
date of death	July 2, 2008 at the age of 40 years and 85 days
Place of death	Rab , Croatia
size	215 cm
position	center
college	Chaminade University
Clubs as active
0000- ASC 1846 Göttingen 1989–1990 Santa Fé CC Saints (NJCAA) 1990–1992 Chaminade Silverswords ( NCAA ) 1992–1994 TTL Bamberg 1994–1996 MTV Gießen Flippers 1996–1997 SV Tally Oberelchingen 1997–2000 MTV Gießen Flippers0000
Clubs as coaches
2000–2001 MTV 1846 Giessen (2nd team) 2001–2002 SC Rist Wedel 2002–2004 Avitos Lich 2004–2008 Merlins Crailsheim

Arne Christian Alig (born April 8, 1968 in Hanover , † July 2, 2008 on the Croatian island of Rab ) was a German basketball player and coach.

Career

Alig went to college in the USA in 1989 , where he initially worked for a year with the Saints from the Santa Fé Community College in Gainesville (Florida) . He then played for two years with the Silverswords at Chaminade University of Honolulu in Hawaii. He was an excellent shot blocker and is one of the reasons he is on the best lists of his colleges.

During the postseason in 1990 he gained his first experience in the BBL for TTL Bamberg, for which he was then regularly in the squad after his college days in 1992. With Bamberg he reached the 1993 play-off finals and runner-up Alig. The following year, the final four in the cup and the semi-finals in the championship were reached. However, Alig was personally unable to fully meet expectations in Bamberg, so he moved to Giessen in 1994. With a one-year break in 1996/97 in Oberelchingen, he ran the rest of his active career for this club. With Giessen and Oberelchingen, however, he never got beyond the quarter-final play-offs in the championship. In 1999 the final was reached in the cup, but it was lost to Alba Berlin .

After injuries, especially to his knee, Alig moved to the coaching bench in 2000 and took over the second team of MTV 1846 Gießen in the major league, which he held after a year break in the 2nd division north at SC Rist Wedel in a double function as a coach for Gießen's cooperation partner Avitos Lich continued to look after. In 2004 he left Hessen and moved to Crailsheim within the 2nd South League.

After the end of the ProB 2007/08 , Alig suddenly and unexpectedly passed away on his summer vacation.

Web links

• Arne Alig on Easy Credit BBL website; Cologne, 2019. Retrieved February 5, 2019.
• Arne Alig for TTL Bamberg - player profile in the fan archive TTL Bamberg

Individual evidence

1. ^ NN: Saints Men's Basketball Records and Archives (Updated March 2006). 1979-80 through 2005-06. ( Memento July 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Archived from Santa Fe College Saints Athletics website; Gainesville, FL, undated March 2006. Retrieved February 5, 2019.
2. ↑ Chaminade University of Hawaii Men's Basketball 2007-2008. (PDF (1.49 MB)) cstv.com, p. 20 , accessed on May 18, 2012 (English). 
3. ^ Archive season 1989/90 GHP Bamberg. wbeyersdorf.de, accessed on May 18, 2012 (seasonal chronicle from “Fascination Basketball - 20 Years of Bundesliga Basketball in Bamberg”). 
4. ↑ (Thomas Grewe :) SV Tally Oberelchingen 1996/1997. Team line-up 96/97. ( Memento of February 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Archived from the University of Giessen — website; Giessen, March 21, 1997. Retrieved February 5, 2019.
5. ↑ Arne Alig is the new trainer at AVITOS Lich. schoenen-dunk.de, June 19, 2002, accessed on May 18, 2012 (press release AVITOS Lich). 
6. ↑ Joachim Mayershofer: Merlins mourn coach Arne Alig. 40-year-old coach of the Crailsheim basketball team died unexpectedly while on vacation in Croatia. ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Archived from Südwest Presse — Website; Ulm, July 4, 2008. Retrieved February 5, 2019.