Calvin Oldham

Calvin Oldham
Player information
birthday	February 19, 1961 (59 years 194 days)
place of birth	in Ohio , USA
size	205 cm
position	Power forward
college	Virginia Tech
Clubs as active
1979–1982 Virginia Tech Hokies ( NCAA ) 1983–1990 BG Steiner Bayreuth 1990–1991 BG Charlottenburg 1991–1992 Wichita Falls Texans ( CBA ) 1992–1995 SSV ratiopharm Ulm 1846
Clubs as coaches
1995 Steiner Bayreuth ( AC ) 1996–1998 Steiner / Basket Bayreuth 1998–2002 Bayer Giants Leverkusen 2003–2005 UMaine Black Bears / NCAA (AC) 2005–2007 Alba Berlin (AC) 2007–2013 Jeonju KCC Egis (AC) 2013–2015 Eisbären Bremerhaven since 2016 Chiba Jets0 000 00

Calvin Oldham (born February 19, 1961 in the US state of Ohio ) is an American basketball coach and former player who has worked particularly successfully in the German basketball league .

Player career

Oldham studied at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University , where he worked for the Hokies in NCAA Division I. He brought it in two years to 59 games for Virginia Tech and scored an average of 7.8 points and 7.6 rebounds per encounter.

In 1983 he got the opportunity to play professionally in Europe and was signed by the USC Olympia from Bayreuth in Franconia . Despite good performances and a point average of 29.7 points per game, he could not prevent Bayreuth from being relegated for the first time. After the merger with the successful table tennis club and thanks to the entry of the Optik Steiner Group as a sponsor, Oldham could be held for the following season, although first division offers were available to him from Giessen and Osnabrück. Oldham, who was characterized by agility, a good throw and speed, worked alongside basketball in a Bayreuth sports shop. As BG Steiner-Optik they immediately rose again and were the first second division to reach the final of the DBB Cup in the promotion season . In the Bundesliga, Oldham and his Bayreuthers returned to being one of the top teams. Still a cup finalist in 1985 and 1986, he won his first title as a German cup winner in 1988, followed by winning the German championship under the US coach Lester Habegger together with teammates such as Alvin "Bo" Dukes and in the following year 1989, in addition to defending the cup title the German international Michael Koch followed. In the decisive fifth game in the final series against Leverkusen, Oldham scored the final score with a three-point throw shortly before the end (83:77).

In the game year 1989/1990 Oldham was with the team again runner-up before the squad was rebuilt and he left the club in the direction of Berlin . With the BG Charlottenburg, the predecessor of the later very successful club Alba Berlin, Oldham was then runner-up again the following season and, as in the previous year with Bayreuth, had to admit defeat to the record champions TSV Bayer 04 from Leverkusen . He then played one season in his home country in the Continental Basketball Association before returning to the Bundesliga in Ulm in 1992 . In his first season in Ulm, Oldham and his team failed again in the semi-finals of the championship play-offs against the series champions from Leverkusen. In the following two seasons they were eliminated in the quarter-finals. In 1995 he finally ended his playing career, during which he scored 5568 points in the Bundesliga.

Coaching career

In the 1995/96 BBL season , returnees Les Habegger brought his former player Oldham to the sidelines as an assistant in Bayreuth. When Habegger resigned prematurely, Oldham was promoted to head coach. In his very first season he managed to lead the team to third place behind series champion Leverkusen and the new "power" Alba Berlin, who then ended up in the championship semifinals. However, the following season was disappointing and the financially troubled club only managed to stay in the relegation round. In the 1997/98 BBL season they were able to consolidate, but still had to secure relegation via the relegation round.

In 1998, Oldham finally left Bayreuth and became the coach of the "Giant from the Rhine" in Leverkusen, who had dominated his playing days for years and who have since been replaced as series champions by Alba Berlin. Even Oldham could not change that, in 1999 they were in the semi-finals and in 2000 in the final Alba. In 2001 they even failed in the semi-finals at the new Rhenish rival Telekom Baskets Bonn . Manager Thomas Deuster as the successor to Otto Reintjes relied on a new concept for the record champions and when the following season got off to a disappointing start, Calvin Oldham was dismissed as coach.

As a result, Oldham worked as a scout for the Toronto Raptors from the NBA , before he was accepted into the coaching staff of the Black Bears of the University of Maine in the NCAA in 2003. In 2005, the new Alba coach Henrik Rödl Oldham brought in as an assistant. In the first season, the successful club still managed to win the cup, after the bankruptcy as the main round first in the play-off quarter-finals of the BBL season 2006/07 against the underdog Artland Dragons , the coaching team Rödl / Oldham in Berlin was dismissed. Oldham then worked as a coach in South Korea until the summer of 2013 . For the 2013/2014 season, Oldham returned to Germany and became the new head coach of the first division club Eisbären Bremerhaven . There he followed Doug Spradley . In January 2015, Oldham was released from his duties in Bremerhaven after the team had previously slipped to penultimate place in the table.

Oldham has been assistant coach of the Chiba Jets in Japan since the 2016/17 season.

family

His son CJ (* 1991 in Berlin) played for the Zips of the University of Akron in the NCAA until 2012 , then for the team at Gannon University (NCAA Division 2) before he turned professional and played in Norway, among others, in the summer of 2017 moved to Bayer Leverkusen and was later under contract in Elchingen . Oldham has been playing for EPG Baskets Koblenz since the 2020/2021 season .

Web links

• Calvin Oldham at: Easy Credit BBL website; Cologne, 2019. Accessed February 23, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Calvin Oldham College Stats. Retrieved May 24, 2020 . 
2. ^ ^{A b} Dino Reisner: Because the Olympics USC signed Calvin Oldham . In: 111 reasons to love Medi Bayreuth: A declaration of love to the greatest basketball city in the world . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86265-770-4 , pp. 64, 65 .
3. ↑ Dr. Peter-Michael Habermann: US boys in Bayreuth dress. BBC Bayreuth , accessed October 9, 2010 . 
4. ↑ Dino Reisner: Because BG Steiner-Potik was the first second division team to storm into the cup final . In: 111 reasons to love Medi Bayreuth: A declaration of love to the greatest basketball city in the world . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86265-770-4 , pp. 72-74 .
5. ^ Dino Reisner: Because Steiner wrote Bundesliga history . In: 111 reasons to love Medi Bayreuth: A declaration of love to the greatest basketball city in the world . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86265-770-4 , pp. 99-101 .
6. ↑ The 200 best basket hunters in the Bundesliga since 1975 . In: Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (Ed.): 50 Years of the Basketball Bundesliga . Cologne, ISBN 978-3-7307-0242-0 , pp. 212 .
7. ↑ (rpo): Giants part with coach Oldham. Manager leads trraining until the end of the season. On: Rheinische Post website; Düsseldorf, February 21, 2002. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
8. ^ Ben Sherman: Tar Heel Pros News & Notes. Rodl reloading in Berlin. (* Referring to "Roedl") On: 247 Sports / Columbia Broadcasting System website; San Francisco, CA, July 24, 2005. Retrieved February 23, 2019 (in English).
9. ↑ NN: The coaching team is in place - Oldham is returning to Berlin. On: Schönen Dunk — Website; Berlin, July 19, 2005. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
10. ↑ カ ル バ ン ・ オ ー ル ダ ム - 千葉 ジ ェ ッ ツ. Retrieved February 10, 2017 (Japanese). 
11. ↑ NN: 15 CJ Oldham. On: The University of Akron website; Akron, OH, undated 2019. Retrieved February 23, 2019 (in English).
12. ^ CJ Oldham clear for Miners (+) . In: www.laagendalsposten.no . August 23, 2016 ( laagendalsposten.no [accessed February 10, 2017]).
13. ↑ http://www.zweite-basketball-bundesliga.de/cj-oldham-wird-ein-giant/
14. ↑ CJ Oldham remains a moose. Retrieved on May 24, 2020 (German). 
15. ↑ https://www.basketskoblenz.de/news/beitrag/kader-update.html/