Chet Kammerer

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Glen "Chet" Kammerer (born July 24, 1942 ) is an American basketball coach .

Life

As a basketball player, Kammerer was a member of the Leesburg High School team from 1960 to 1964 on the college team of Grace College ( Indiana ). He scored 2,504 points in his four years at Grace College, putting him first on the college team's all-time basketball list. In the 1963/64 season, Kammerer scored 26.3 points per encounter. He then switched directly to the coaching field and looked after the team from 1965 to 1975 as head coach. During this time he led the Grace basketball players to 183 wins, 105 games were lost. Kammerer moved to California as a trainer at Westmont College . There he was head coach from 1975 to 1992 and recorded a record of 359 wins and 156 defeats. In the game year 1983/84 Westmont reached the round of the last four teams under his leadership in the final tournament of the NAIA .

From 1992 to 1994 Kammerer was an assistant coach on the staff of the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA . Terry Schofield (then sports director of SG Braunschweig ) brought Kammerer to Lower Saxony in the run-up to the 1995/96 season, who had previously returned to the basketball league after purchasing a license . Kammerer worked for a year as head coach in Braunschweig and led the team to stay in the league in a season that was sometimes dramatic. The two-year collaboration was ended by Braunschweig's manager Richard Hartwig after the 1995/96 season, and Kammerer returned to the United States. There he was employed as a player scout for various NBA teams ( Milwaukee Bucks , Miami Heat , Philadelphia 76ers , Washington Wizards ). From 2002, Kammerer was part of the permanent staff of the Miami Heat as deputy president for player matters and was particularly involved in the observation and assessment of possible draft candidates for the NBA team. He stayed in this position until 2018 and was a close confidante of coach Erik Spoelstra . He then worked as a consultant at Miami Heat. His son Chad took over the post of director of player sighting in Miami.

Kammerer was inducted into the Hall of Fame at Grace College and Indiana State. The basketball court at Westmont College was named after him.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Glen "Chet" Kammerer. In: Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame. Retrieved February 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ ARCHIVE: Men's Basketball Individual Records. In: Grace College. Retrieved February 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Glen "Chet" Kammerer (2008) - Lancer Hall of Fame. Retrieved February 23, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Chet Kammerer Headed To Indiana Hoops Hall Of Fame. In: timesuniononline.com. Retrieved February 23, 2020 (American English).
  5. ↑ a b Barry Jackson: This top Miami Heat executive is taking on a reduced role to spend more time with his family. In: Miami Herald. Retrieved February 23, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Chet Kammerer's brilliant act: He makes a lot out of very little . In: Ute Berndt, Henning Brand, Ingo Hoffmann, Christoph Matthies (eds.): Dunke-Schön. 25 years of the 1st Bundesliga basketball team in Braunschweig . Klartext Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1505-3 , p. 80, 81 .
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SURNAME Kammerer, Chet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kammerer, Glen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1942