John Dieckelman

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John Dieckelman (born March 20, 1960 ) is an American basketball coach .

career

As a student, Dieckelman was a member of the basketball team at the University at Albany in his home country from 1979 to 1983 and scored 1,274 points, placing him in fifth place in the all-time basketball list when he left college. With 745 rebounds he was also fifth best in the ranking and even leading with 155 blocked opposing throws. He then went to Sweden as a professional player , where he played from 1983 to 1987 for the Stockholmspolisens IF police sports club, where he also worked as a coach in the women's and youth field.

In the 1987/88 season he was coach of the Oslo Persbråten basketball club in Norway and from 1988 to 1991 in the same country of Ulriken Elite. In addition, there was another task: from 1989 to 1991 Dieckelman was also the coach of the women at the Hop Basketball Club, which is also based in Bergen . At the same time, between 1988 and 1991, he was an assistant coach on the staff of the Norwegian national team and, in 1991, was also head coach of the country's youth national team.

Dieckelman went back to the United States for a year and was employed as a physical education teacher at Idaho State University in 1991/92 while he was doing a master’s degree there. From 1992 to 1997 he was the head coach of KFUM Jämtland Basket in Sweden and then from 1997 to 2000 at the Södertälje Kings . In the second half of the 1990s, Dieckelman also worked for the Swedish Basketball Federation, coaching the U22 national team in 1996/97 and the U20 national team in 1998/99.

From 2000 to 2002 he was coach of the Austrian Bundesliga club UBC Oberwart and from 2002 to 2005 he worked again for KFUM Jämtland Basket in Sweden. In 2005 he became a trainer with the Dornbirn Lions in Austria and held this position until 2007. From 2007 to 2011 he was assistant coach of the WBC Wels , won the national championship title with the team in 2009 alongside head coach Raoul Korner , and in 2009/10 Dieckelman was also head coach of the Wels women.

In the summer of 2011 he was hired as Thorsten Leibenath's assistant coach at the German Bundesliga club Ratiopharm Ulm  and remained in office until 2016. He was also employed as a trainer in the youth sector in Ulm. In August 2017 Dieckelmann became the coordinator of the youth department of the Bundesliga club Medi Bayreuth . After three years in Bayreuth, he was introduced as the new coach of the Luxembourg first division team Musel Pikes in mid-June 2020 .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 21711 John DIECKELMAN. In: Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved June 22, 2020 .
  2. ↑ https://admin.xosn.com/attachments1/141532.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=15800
  3. ↑ a b Thorsten Leibenath is the new head coach of ratiopharm Ulm. Retrieved June 22, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ a b c https://de.linkedin.com/in/john-dieckelman-35877a82
  5. ↑ Voigt har fått finsk knalltilbud. Retrieved June 22, 2020 (Bokmål in Norwegian).
  6. ^ A b Coach Profile John Dieckelman. In: basketball.eurobasket.com. Retrieved June 22, 2020 .
  7. ↑ EXTRA: Dieckelman tillbaka i Östersund. In: Basketfeber. August 19, 2016, accessed June 22, 2020 (Swedish).
  8. ^ Oberwart Gunners - History. Retrieved June 22, 2020 .
  9. ↑ a b TenneT young heroes present new junior coordinator. Retrieved June 22, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Basketball: Musel Pikes present new coach. June 12, 2020, accessed June 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Dieckelman, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1960