Frank Menz

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Basketball player
Frank Menz
Player information
birthday February 27, 1964
place of birth Berlin, Germany
Clubs as active
1973-1984 GermanyGermany TSC Berlin 1893
1984-1991 GermanyGermany Neukölln sports fans
1991-1992 GermanyGermany SG AdW / BT Berlin
1992-1993 GermanyGermany Alba Berlin
1996-1997 GermanyGermany SSV unit Weißenfels ( player-coach )
Clubs as coaches
1994-1995 GermanyGermany Wemex Berlin (women, AC )
1995-1996 GermanyGermany Wemex / BBC Berlin
1996-2001 GermanyGermany SSV unit Weißenfels
2002-2006 GermanyGermany TuS erdgas baskets Jena
2016-2019 GermanyGermany Basketball Löwen Braunschweig
2019– GermanyGermany Science City Jena
National team as coach
2006–2012 GermanyGermany German Basketball Federation (A2, U20, U17)
2012 GermanyGermany Germany ( AC )
2012-2014 GermanyGermany Germany
2014-2016 GermanyGermany Germany (U20)

Frank Menz (born February 27, 1964 in Berlin ) is a German basketball coach and former player. As a player, Menz was mainly active in his hometown for the Neuköllner Sportfreunde in the 2nd basketball league . From 2006 he worked as a trainer for the German Basketball Association and was national trainer from December 2012 to May 2014. From July 2016 to the end of the 2018/19 season he was head coach and sports director at Bundesliga club Basketball Löwen Braunschweig .

Career

As a player

Menz played for the Sportfreunde from Berlin-Neukölln , who in 1987 were promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga Group North and only narrowly failed to get promoted to the First Basketball Bundesliga in 1990 . In the following season the tide turned and in 1991 the sports fans got down again. In 1991 the two best GDR upper division USC Magdeburg and the syndicate from AdW Berlin and Berliner Turnerschaft were assigned to the 2nd division. Menz played another season in the second division for the East Berliners, who were able to secure a midfield position in their first season in contrast to the Magdeburgers who were beaten at the bottom of the table. He was also in the 1992/93 season as a supplementary player in the squad of the first division club ALBA Berlin and completed three games in the first division.

As a trainer

As early as 1992, while still playing as an active player, Menz was the assistant trainer of the women's team at the former East German champion HSG Humboldt University . He took over this position again from 1994 (the club was called Wemex Berlin since 1993). The Berlin club ran into serious financial difficulties and had to dismiss its full-time coach, so that Frank Menz took over as the responsible coach in the following 1995/96 season. However, the bankruptcy of WEMEX and the transfer of the game license to the new BBC hardly changed the financial legacy, so that the semi-finalist of the championship gave up his best players at the end of the season and started again in the regional league. Among the players was national player Birgit Eggert , to whom Menz has been married since 2005.

Trainer in Weißenfels and Jena

In 1996 Menz moved to the men's regional division SSV Einheit from Weißenfels near Leipzig . Still active himself in the first season, he only worked on the sidelines as a coach after being promoted to the 2nd basketball division. In the first second division season they reached a sixth place in the regular season, but were without a win in the relegation round for promotion to the first division. Together with his old teammates from Alba Berlin, Ingo Wolf as manager and Ingo Freyer as playmaker on the field, they reached second place after the regular season in the 1998/99 season, tied with the first. Then they failed in the relegation again just on the first division promotion, only through the withdrawal of SV Oberelchingen could the Weißenfelser move up and were thus the first East German club in the joint top division of men after unification.

The Weißenfelser started with ambitious goals in the first division and achieved a sixth and a seventh place in the first two seasons, but were then eliminated in the quarter-final play-offs for the championship. For the following season 2001/02 the club had to accept a personal bloodletting with the departures of Chris Ensminger , Clint-Cotis Harrison and Mithat Demirel and also Frank Menz was replaced as a coach after a discrepancy with the management and finally left from the season 2002/03 to the southern second division club TuS Jena. With the Thuringians, Menz consistently reached places in the top third of the table and failed in the 2005/06 season as second behind ratiopharm Ulm just barely on promotion to the first division, which only his assistant Björn Harmsen should achieve as the new boss in the following season.

Trainer at the German Basketball Association

After Menz had been jointly responsible for the fate of the A2 national team since 2005, he became a full-time trainer at the German Basketball Association (DBB) from 2006 and subsequently looked after the national teams of various age groups. Most recently, he achieved a historically good position with fifth place at the U-20 European basketball championship in 2011, which was only surpassed in a comparable age group with fourth place at the U-18 European basketball championship in 1986 over 25 years ago.

After Frank Menz had initially been acted as his successor in the men's national team by national coach Dirk Bauermann , from March 2012 the DBB again signed Svetislav Pešić, who achieved the team's greatest success with winning the title at the European basketball championship in 1993 in his own country would have. Menz became Pešić's assistant after the U20 European Championship in July 2012. Since he moved to Bayern Munich as a club coach , Menz was appointed national coach in December 2012. At the European Championships in September 2013, he failed with the national team in the preliminary round. Eight months later, he was released from office in May 2014. However, he stayed with DBB and looked after the U20 national team between 2014 and 2016.

Basketball Löwen Braunschweig

On July 1, 2016, he took over the position of head coach and sports director at the Bundesliga club Basketball Löwen Braunschweig . Due to a quadriceps tendon rupture and the following operation, he had to temporarily stop working as a trainer in November 2017 and was replaced by his assistant Steven Clauss during this time . In December 2018, Menz announced that he would not accept the offer to extend his contract in Braunschweig and would leave the team at the end of the 2018/19 season for personal reasons. In the 2018/19 game year , he led the Braunschweig team in eighth place in the Bundesliga championship round, the last time the Lower Saxony team managed to participate in the 2011/12 season. In the quarter-finals against Bayern Munich, Menz 'Braunschweiger remained without a win in three games and were eliminated.

Return to Jena

In May 2019, Menz signed a four-year contract with Science City Jena .

Private

From 2005 until her death in 2019, Menz was married to the former national basketball player Birgit Menz , née Eggert, whose two daughters Tina and Jenny also became professional basketball players . In 2008 their daughter Marie was born.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Frank Menz promoted to national coach FAZ.net, December 6, 2012, accessed on December 6, 2012
  2. ↑ ALBA BERLIN basketball team - team 1992/1993. (No longer available online.) Alba Berlin , archived from the original on January 20, 2014 ; accessed on May 17, 2012 (roster with photo). 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.albaberlin.de
  3. ↑ University basketball women with a new coaching staff . In: Berliner Zeitung . Volume 48, No. 277 , November 26, 1992, pp. 14 ( [1] ).
  4. ↑ Hilmar Bürger: Sponsor sets the course for the future top team . In: Berliner Zeitung . Volume 49, No. 71 , March 25, 1993, pp. 15 ( [2] ).
  5. ↑ Reinhold Schnupp: Ex-trainer Schlösser wins in court. Berliner Zeitung , January 20, 1996, accessed on May 17, 2012 (message in the news ticker archive).
  6. ^ Christian Ewers: The heroes of the district town. Berliner Zeitung , June 19, 1999, accessed on May 17, 2012 (article in the news archive).
  7. ^ First "Ossi" club in the basketball league. Der Spiegel , June 19, 1999, accessed on May 17, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Markus Völker: Development aid workers with suction . In: The daily newspaper: taz . January 23, 2003, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 19 ( taz.de [accessed December 4, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Christoph Büker: Frank Menz becomes national coach. schoenen-dunk.de, March 10, 2005, accessed on May 17, 2012 (DBB press release).
  10. ↑ Florian Lindemann: U20 men with historic European Championship performance. Crossover-online.de, July 24, 2011, accessed on May 17, 2012 .
  11. ↑ Germany - HISTORY: Achievements in FIBA ​​Europe youth competitions. FIBA Europe , accessed on May 17, 2012 (English, overview of the performance of German youth and junior national teams in European competitions).
  12. ↑ Michael Spandern: "Frank is the logical candidate". Sport1 , September 13, 2011, accessed on May 17, 2012 (interview with Dirk Bauermann).
  13. ↑ Menz, Mutapcic, Zollner and Lindner assist Svetislav Pesic in the national team. Deutscher Basketball Bund , May 9, 2012, accessed on May 17, 2012 (press release).
  14. ↑ DBB downgrades national coach Menz RP.online, May 19, 2014, accessed on May 19, 2014.
  15. ↑ Basketball Braunschweig: Frank Menz becomes the new Löwen head coach and sports director. In: www.basketball-loewen.de. Retrieved May 2, 2016 .
  16. ↑ http://www.basketball-loewen.de/presse/news/einzelner-beitrag/article/hiobsbotschaft-auch-headcoach-frank-menz-faellt-aus.html
  17. ↑ Hans-Dieter Schlawis: Coach Frank Menz leaves the Basketball Löwen at the end of the season. December 11, 2018, accessed December 11, 2018 .
  18. ↑ 100: 85 triumph: The basketball lions are in the playoffs. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
  19. ↑ BBL playoffs - Bayern and Berlin make it clear to the semi-finals, Bamberg before the end. May 26, 2019, accessed May 26, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Menz again trainer with Jena's basketball players - STIMME.de. In: Stimme.de. May 29, 2019. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
  21. ^ German Basketball Federation (ed.): DBB-Journal . Issue 7, February 2009, p. 26 ( [3] [PDF]).
personal data
SURNAME Menz, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball coach and player
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin