Cottbus Crayfish
Cottbus Crayfish 
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| City: | cottbus | ||
| Founded: | 1993 | ||
| Team colors: | Red White | ||
| Head coach: | Jörg Steudtner | ||
| League (2017): | Regional League East | ||
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| Greatest successes | |||
| Vice champion GFL 2 North | 2012 | ||
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| Address: | Herman-Löns-Str. 1, 03048 Cottbus | ||
| Owner: | City of Cottbus | ||
| Capacity: | 19,000 | ||
| Contact | |||
| Address: | Dresdener Str. 89
03050 Cottbus |
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| Internet: | cottbus-crayfish.de | ||
| Data status | |||
| 20th February 2017 | |||
The Cottbus Crayfish are an American football club that plays in the Regionalliga Ost.
history
In 1993, following a league game held as a presentation by the Berlin Stars against the Trittau Dukes , the first American football team from Cottbus was founded in July under the umbrella of the university sports club of the BTU Cottbus. Beginning in the fall of 1993, training was started under the direction of Gerry Hogg, who was financed by the NFL for half a year. The first games were played in 1994 as part of the Aufbauliga Ost and in the games of the East Bowl in 1994. This proof of playing ability followed in 1995 the participation in the association league, which ended with second place and promotion to the Oberliga Ost. Two years of Verbandsliga Ost were followed by three years of Oberliga Ost and, at the end of 2000, promotion to the Regionalliga (3rd division).
In the first few years, the “8 May Stadium” on Karl-Marx-Straße was both a training and a match stadium. When construction work began on the new building for the information, communication and media center of the BTU Cottbus, the stadium in the sports center became a venue from 1998, while training operations have had to move to other places and halls ever since.
In 2011, after a perfect season with 10 wins in 10 games , the Cottbus Crayfish achieved promotion to GFL 2 , where they finished their first season after 14 games (11 wins) with second place, tied with the champions, with great success. In the 2013 season, the Crayfish finished 7th in the GFL 2 Nord and thus missed relegation.
Departments
In addition to the men's team, the Cottbus Crayfish consist of an A-youth, B-youth and a flag team for children up to 13 years of age.
Men's
After a perfect season in 2011 in the Regionalliga Ost, the Crayfish played in the GFL 2 Nord in the two following years. In 2012 the Cottbus Crayfish were runner-up in their first season of the GFL 2 and were tied with the champions of the league at the top. The year 2013 did not go as expected, so that a relegation to the Regionalliga Ost took place.
Squad season 2017
| position | No | Surname |
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| DB | 1 | Michael Mader |
| LB | 2 | Chris Noak |
| LB | 3 | Elias Bergau |
| QB | 4th | Simon Wagner |
| K | 5 | Jörg Steudtner |
| DB | 6th | Artur Fried |
| WR | 8th | Paul Sommer |
| DB | 9 | Christopher Zöllig |
| DB | 10 | Nico Ciepli |
| WR | 11 | Rocco Mank |
| WR | 12 | Nico Hermes |
| DB | 13 | Pascal Schulz |
| WR | 16 | Pascal Kasimir |
| DB | 17th | Bill Barkowsky |
| LB | 20th | Maximilian Springer |
| K | 21st | Ronny Goldhammer |
| DB | 22nd | Zac Christian |
| LB | 23 | Robert Burwitz |
| TE | 24 | Christopher Monday |
| RB | 26th | Benedikt Schulz |
| DB | 28 | Christian Hartnacke |
| DB | 31 | Zeljko Stevanovic |
| DB | 32 | Steve Ludwig |
| LB | 33 | Steve Dittmer |
| DB | 35 | Martin Trowel |
| RB | 36 | Byron Jackson |
| LB | 42 | Sandor Varga |
| DB | 43 | Bruno Didoff |
| DL | 44 | Dawid Moder |
| DL | 51 | Jörg Geisler |
| OIL | 52 | Alex Young |
| DL | 54 | Steffen Schulz |
| DL | 55 | Christian Missbach |
| LB | 56 | Jacob Jobs |
| OIL | 57 | Tom Zumpe |
| DL | 62 | Marcel Küttner |
| OIL | 65 | John Marc Friedrich |
| DL | 67 | Michael Giesecke |
| OIL | 68 | Max Haase |
| DL | 69 | Manuel Koalenz |
| OIL | 71 | Viktor Jurk |
| OIL | 72 | Sven Hinrichs |
| OIL | 73 | Marcel Engelmann |
| DL | 76 | Matthias Konzack |
| OIL | 77 | Sebastian Achilles |
| LB | 78 | Benjamin Loeff |
| OIL | 79 | Tobias Lützkendorf |
| WR | 80 | Phillipe Lohse |
| TE | 82 | Manuel Schmidt |
| WR | 83 | Niklas Rose |
| TE | 84 | Henrik Steinmann |
| WR | 85 | Florian Kossack |
| DL | 88 | Alexander Muschen |
| DL | 91 | Andreas Gärtner |
| LB | 95 | Patrick Schammel |
Head coaches
- 1993-1994 Gerry Hogg
- 1994–1995 Jochen Remmert
- 1996–1997 Matthias Nitksche
- 1997-1999 Tyron Pilgrim
- 1999–2000 Steffen Braunholz
- 2000-2001 John Brooks
- 2001–2002 Peter Selinke
- 2002-2003 Thorben Gyra
- since 2003 Jörg Steudtner
Coach OL
Alex Young
Coach DL
Martin Neubauer
Coach DB
Zac Christian
Coach RB
Byron Jackson
Youth team
The youth team is called Cottbus Young Crayfish (15-19 years) and has been taking part in the East German youth leagues since 1996, with varying degrees of success. In 1996, 2000, 2001 and 2016 they were East German youth champions. Since the 2017 season, the youth department has consisted of an A-youth (U19) and B-youth (U16).
Flag football
With Cottbus Flagstorm, the Cottbus Crayfish offer flagfootball for children aged 9–13. Flagfootball is a variant of American football that is played without any physical contact.