Chris Harris (basketball coach)

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Christopher Robert Harris (born April 11, 1979 ) is a Canadian basketball coach and former professional basketball player. He is currently the head coach of the German second division team Phoenix Hagen .

Player career

Harris played at the University of Calgary until 2003 and then pursued a career as a professional basketball player. During his professional career he played in lower class leagues in Germany, mostly in the regional league. His stations were: GV Waltrop, BBV Hagen, Capone Düsseldorf and again BBV Hagen.

Coaching career

During his playing career, Harris worked as a coach in the youth field. Between 2005 and 2012 he worked as the youth coordinator of the BBV Hagen and temporarily also as a coach of the club's second and later the first men's team.

In 2010 he switched to FC Schalke 04 . There he took over the position of head coach of the men's team in the regional league. After two years in Gelsenkirchen, Harris accepted an offer from the Ratiopharm Academy Ulm, the youth department of the Bundesliga club Ratiopharm Ulm . As a full-time youth coach, he worked there as head coach of the second men's team and the U19 team in the youth basketball league .

In July 2014, the first division club Eisbären Bremerhaven signed him as an assistant coach. When the Eisbären dismissed head coach Muli Katzurin in November 2015 , Harris initially took over the post on an interim basis and was then promoted to head coach in January. On March 1, the club announced that Harris would return to his position as assistant coach with immediate effect and that Sebastian Machowski was hired as the new head coach. After the polar bears separated from Machowski in December 2017, Harris formed the coaching team with Arne Woltmann . At the end of November 2018, Harris moved to the second division Phoenix Hagen as head coach .

Personal

His cousin Whitney was also a professional basketball player and played in Germany.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. University of Calgary Dinos basketball program attracts talent from all over world. (No longer available online.) In: Calgary Sun. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016 ; accessed on March 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.calgarysun.com
  2. Chris Harris Basketball Coach Profile, Eisbaeren Bremerhaven, staff, biography, career - eurobasket.com. In: www.eurobasket.com. Retrieved March 4, 2016 .
  3. Chris Harris | LinkedIn. (No longer available online.) In: ca.linkedin.com. Formerly in the original ; accessed on March 4, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / ca.linkedin.com  
  4. Andree Hagel: Dorsten's first five impressed Chris Harris. In: WAZ. Retrieved March 4, 2016 .
  5. Basketball Ulm - Chris Harris becomes a full-time youth coach. In: www.basketball-ulm.com. Retrieved March 4, 2016 .
  6. ^ Eisbären Bremerhaven: Canadian Chris Harris becomes Calvin Oldham's right-hand man. In: Eisbären Bremerhaven. Retrieved March 4, 2016 .
  7. Sport1.de: Beko BBL: Eisbären Bremerhaven make Chris Harris head coach. In: Sport1.de. Retrieved March 4, 2016 .
  8. Eisbären Bremerhaven: Sebastian Machowski takes over the polar bears. (No longer available online.) In: Eisbären Bremerhaven. Archived from the original on December 22, 2016 ; accessed on March 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dieeisbaeren.de
  9. Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dieeisbaeren.de
  10. Coming home! Chris Harris becomes head coach of the Firebirds | PHOENIX-HAGEN. Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
  11. From Martin Schirmer: Cousins ​​have no relatives. In: WAZ. Retrieved March 4, 2016 .