Itzehoe Eagles

Itzehoe Eagles
Founded	2015
Hall	Sports center Am Lehmwohld (714/600 seats)
Homepage	http://www.eagles-basketball.de/
Chairman	Volker Hambrock
Deputy Chairperson	Martina Iversen
Trainer	Patrick Elzie
league	2nd Bundesliga ProB Nord 2018/19 : 7th place
Colours	White black
home Away

The Itzehoe Eagles are a basketball club from Itzehoe with an attached dance department for cheerleading . The club was founded from the basketball department of the Sport-Club Itzehoe, with the entire department including the professional men's team being taken over. The men's team, which had previously been known as Eagles , has been playing in the third-highest German division, 2nd Bundesliga ProB , since 2014 .

history

As MTV Itzehoe, the first men's team won the championship title in the 2nd Regionalliga Nord in 2006 under the direction of coach Paul Larysz and thus rose to the third highest German division Regionalliga Nord at the time. The three Americans GJ Macon, Antwon Brown and Bryan McCullough were among the top performers in the championship team.

In the 1st regional league, the team ended up in the midfield in their first three years, in the 2009/10 season they belonged to the top group and came third. The American Kejuan Johnson, who scored 29.2 points per match for the Itzehoer and was named Player of the Year of the 09/10 season in the 1st place by the specialist organ eurobasket.com, played a major role in achieving the best position since the promotion. Regionalliga Nord was awarded. This was followed by further placements among the top three teams (2010/11: third, 2011/12: second). As in previous years, Itzehoe had the help of North American professional players: In 2010/11 the Canadian Tut Ruach directed the set-up and impressed with good statistical values ​​as did the American Martinis Woody, who played under the basket. In the 2011/12 season, the team was led by the American Tyrone Lewis, who was the best scorer in the 1st Regionalliga North with 26.1 points per game. In October 2010 it was decided to transfer MTV to ETSV Gut Heil Itzehoe, then Gut Heil changed its club name to Sport-Club Itzehoe. This merger was officially completed in June 2011, so that the Itzehoer basketball players competed under the name SC Itzehoe from the 2011/12 season.

After the Itzehoer had slipped back into the midfield of the 1st regional league in 2012/13, before the 2013/14 season came the American Everage Richardson, a player who was particularly well-known for his offensive power, who had previously posted an average of 33 points with league competitor Bodfeld. Thanks to this reinforcement, the Itzehoer became regional league runners-up as they did in 2012, again just missing out on the right to promotion to the national division 2. Bundesliga ProB . However, since UBC Hannover sought to withdraw to the Regionalliga Nord, the possibility of an exchange of playing rights arose, which was approved by the responsible 2nd basketball league . In the summer break of 2014, Thomas Sindelar resigned his position as chairman of Itzehoer, after having held this position for the previous 15 years and thus shaped the development of the performance team. His successor was Stefan Flocken. In the ProB season 2014/15 , the club parted ways with coach Larysz in March 2015 shortly before the start of the relegation round after almost ten years. Player Yannick Evans and youth coach Levi Levine then led the team to remain in the 2nd Bundesliga ProB.

In 2015 the basketball division separated from SC Itzehoe and the Itzehoe Eagles eV was founded (founding meeting on March 16, 2015). Volker Hambrock became the first chairman of the new association.

In May 2015 Pat Elzie was hired as head coach, under whose direction the qualification for the play-offs for promotion to the next higher division 2. Bundesliga ProA was achieved for the first time in the 2015/16 season . In February 2017, a youth academy was founded to promote young talent, which was organized in its own association. Former Bundesliga player Flavio Stückemann took over the sporting management of the academy .

In the 2017/18 game year, Itzehoer reached the championship round of the ProB, but were eliminated with 0-2 wins in the first round against Elchingen, the first of the southern season. The U19 team made it into the junior basketball league (NBBL) in June 2018 . Itzehoe was already represented in the NBBL in the 2009/10 season, at that time under the umbrella of MTV.

In the 2018/19 season Itzehoe reached the second round of the 2nd Bundesliga ProB and lost against Gießen II . The team under coach Elzie's leadership completed the points round of the 2019/20 season as champions of the northern season. This was classified as the greatest success in the club's history to date. Since the season on March 17, 2020 was prematurely canceled due to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus , before the championship round began, Itzehoe was awarded the right to promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga ProA as the first in the points round. The outstanding Itzehoe man of the 2019/20 season was the American Chris Hooper: the winger scored an average of 19.5 points, 10.3 rebounds and 3.7 assists per match during the shortened 2019/20 season. Also the Croatian Marko Boksic (12.8 points / game), playmaker Flavio Stückemann (9.4 points and 4.7 basket assists / game), the Dutchman Chaed Wellian (8.7 points / game), Johannes Konradt (8.6 Points / game) and Stefan Schmidt (8.5 points / game) were among the team's top performers. Elzie was named the league's best ProB coach of the season and Hooper was named the best player of the season. With a view to the 2020/21 season, the club decided to submit license applications for both the 2nd Bundesliga ProA and the 2nd Bundesliga ProB. In addition to the economic aspect (drawing up the necessary team budget), the Itzehoers also named the hall issue with the required minimum capacity of 1500 seats as major challenges for a possible ProA promotion. At the end of May 2020, the club's management announced the withdrawal of the license application for the ProA, which was mainly due to the fact that no home venue suitable for the ProA could be found or an existing hall could be prepared accordingly. In the summer of 2020, the club set the goal of wanting to move up to the 2nd Bundesliga ProA in the medium term and positioned itself as an advocate for a major construction project in Itzehoe including the construction of an event hall that would meet the requirements of the second highest German division.

Well-known former players

• Adrian Breitlauch
• Robert Daugs
• Kejuan Johnson
• Tyrone Lewis
• Everage Richardson
• Flavio Stückemann
• Lars Wendt
• Ole Wendt
• Jonathon Williams

Trainer

Term of office	Trainer
2002-2005	Alexander Biller
2005–03 / 2015	Paul Larysz
03/2015–04/2015	Levi Levine / Yannick Evans
since 2015	Pat Elzie

Squad

Itzehoe Eagles' squad for the 2015/2016 season
Attention: The squad information is out of date! (current season: 2020/2021)
player No. Nat. Surname birth size info Last club Guards ( PG , SG ) 7th Adrian Breitlauch 09/14/1993 1.93 m 8th Patrick Wischnewski 03/17/1987 1.91 m 10 Arved Schmidt 07/29/1997 1.80 m DL 21st Leon Hutter 07/13/1999 1.85 m DL 22nd / Konstantin Karamatskos 01/14/1986 1.93 m 25th Nick Tienarend October 29, 1993 1.81 m 30th Flavio Stückemann 04/03/1985 1.88 m Polar bears Bremerhaven 32 Courtney Belger 07/17/1989 1.87 m TV Ibbenbueren Forwards ( SF , PF ) 1 Lester Ferguson 02/15/1988 2.08 m without a club 4th Turrell Morris 05/06/1988 2.01 m without a club 5 Levi Levine 11/25/1982 1.98 m 9 Johannes Konradt 02/14/1995 1.99 m DL 11 Jonas Boehm 04/17/1997 1.98 m DL 12 Yannick Evans 05/02/1986 2.02 m 14th Alexander Witte 04/03/1990 2.05 m BTB Royals Oldenburg Center ( C ) 6th Stephen M. Shepherd 04/09/1992 2.10 m without a club 15th Lars Kroeger 01/13/1991 2.11 m	Trainer Nat. Surname position / Patrick Elzie Head coach Stefan flakes Team manager Legend Abbr. meaning Team captain DL Dual license player swell Team homepage League homepage Status: March 2016

Web links

Commons : Itzehoe Eagles  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Itzehoe Eagles - website of the club
• 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Squad: Itzehoe Eagles - ProB Nord - Profile of the men's team on the website of the 2nd BBL

Footnotes

1. ↑ Itzehoe Eagles are working on regional league squads. In: schoenen-dunk.de. Retrieved August 15, 2019 . 
2. ↑ national leagues. Retrieved August 15, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Kejuan Johnson first addition to the webmoebel Baskets. In: schoenen-dunk.de. Retrieved August 15, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Tut Ruach: Good throw. Retrieved August 15, 2019 (Canadian English). 
5. ↑ US boy Martinis Woody and Alexander Pankonin more locomotive additions. In: schoenen-dunk.de. Retrieved August 15, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Tyrone Lewis is supposed to fill the gap. In: schoenen-dunk.de. Retrieved August 15, 2019 . 
7. ^ Lars Peter Ehrich: General meeting of Gut Heil Itzehoe: Perfect: The sports club is coming | shz.de . In: shz . ( shz.de [accessed on March 26, 2017]).
8. ↑ lpe: Fusion perfect: Sport-Club Itzehoe officially exists | shz.de . In: shz . ( shz.de [accessed on March 26, 2017]).
9. ↑ Itzehoe Eagles sign Everage Richardson. schoenen-dunk.de, accessed on August 15, 2019 . 
10. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | ProB Nord: The SC Itzehoe Eagles replaces the UBC Tigers Hannover. In: www.zweite-basketball-bundesliga.de. Retrieved September 6, 2016 . 
11. ↑ nr: Interview: Ready for the 2. Basketball Bundesliga | shz.de. Retrieved August 14, 2019 . 
12. ↑ lpe: Basketball: Eagles without Larysz into the play-downs | shz.de. Retrieved September 6, 2016 . 
13. ↑ https://www.eagles-basketball.de/images/Satzung-Itzehoe-Eagles-eV.pdf
14. ^ Itzehoe Eagles will have its own club in the future. schoenen-dunk.de, accessed on March 26, 2017 . 
15. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | ALLOWED: COACH PAT ELZIE! In: www.zweite-basketball-bundesliga.de. Retrieved September 6, 2016 . 
16. ^ Itzehoe Eagles: Own club for JBBL and NBBL - Itzehoe Eagles Basketball - 2nd Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved March 26, 2017 (UK English). 
17. ↑ http://www.eagles-basketball.de/index.php/news/88-eagles/559-raus-mit-applaus
18. ↑ Itzehoe Eagles: Academy is in the NBBL! - Itzehoe Eagles Basketball - 2nd Basketball Bundesliga. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 22, 2018 ; accessed on June 22, 2018 . 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.  
19. ↑ NBBL / JBBL - Teams overview - MTV Itzehoe Eagles. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 22, 2018 ; accessed on June 22, 2018 . 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.  
20. ^ Lars Peter Ehrich: Basketball, 2. Bundesliga pRo B: Itzehoe Eagles out with applause | shz.de. Retrieved March 20, 2019 . 
21. ↑ Master! Now against Speyer - Itzehoe Eagles Basketball - 2nd Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved March 8, 2020 . 
22. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Coronavirus: Game operations in the ProA and ProB will be ended prematurely. Retrieved on March 17, 2020 (German). 
23. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Itzehoe Eagles - ProB Nord - 2019/2020. Retrieved March 17, 2020 . 
24. ↑ The WINNERS of the ball side election for players, coaches and youngsters of the 2019/20 season in the ProA and ProB! In: 2. Basketball Bundesliga on Facebook.com. Retrieved June 13, 2020 . 
25. ↑ License for ProA applied for - Itzehoe Eagles Basketball - 2nd Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved April 14, 2020 . 
26. Jump up in ProB - Itzehoe Eagles Basketball - 2nd Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved May 28, 2020 . 
27. ↑ Hope for a new hall - Itzehoe Eagles Basketball - 2nd Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved June 25, 2020 .