John Wojtak

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John Ferdinand Wojtak (born February 19, 1949 ) is an American - Austrian basketball coach and former player.

Life

Wojtak played basketball at North Dakota State University in his native USA . In his final season 1970/71, the inside player was named best player in the North Central Conference . Overall, Wojtak scored 1098 points and 831 rebounds in 75 games for North Dakota State. The latter was the highest value in the university team's all-time record list when he left it in 1971.

In 1971 Wojtak came to the ATSV Mounier Wels as a player , was with the team in 1972 champions of the B-League, which meant promotion to the Bundesliga A. He then played for Wels in the Bundesliga and became a crowd favorite. He was Austrian runner-up several times with Wels.

After his playing career he was coach of the men's team in Wels. In the 1983/84 season he coached the German Bundesliga club USC Bayreuth as a coach. Afterwards he was employed in Osnabrück. At the end of the 1980s he was in charge of MTV Wolfenbüttel.

In the game year 1992/93 as well as in 1995 the women of Powerbasket Wels trained. He also worked as a youth trainer in Wels.

He coached the Linzstrom Red Devils in the Bundesliga, in 2006 he went to the Middle East: in the 2006/07 season he was coach of the Al Ahli Sports Club in Qatar and in the 2007/08 game year of Al Muharraq in Bahrain . He led the latter team to win the national championship title. From 2008 to 2009 Wojtak was in charge of the As Sadd Sports Club in Qatar and in the 2011/12 season the Qatar Sports Club Doha before he worked as a trainer at the Upper Austrian Basketball Association.

Footnotes

  1. ^ North Dakota State University Basketball Records. Retrieved April 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Chronology. In: nachrichten.at. Retrieved April 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b 40 years of the Upper Austrian Basketball Association. (No longer available online.) In: ooebv.org. Archived from the original on April 27, 2019 ; accessed on April 27, 2019 . 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.ooebv.org
  4. ^ Pearl basket. Retrieved April 27, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Braunschweiger Zeitung: "Good time and good people". October 1, 2002, accessed May 11, 2019 .
  6. ↑ HALL of FAME. In: Powerbasket Wels. Retrieved April 27, 2019 .
  7. ^ BRN / IND - Muharraq kick start proceedings with a win. Accessed April 27, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Coach profiles John Wojtak. In: asia-basket.com. Retrieved April 27, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Trainer. In: ooebv.org. Retrieved April 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wojtak, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wojtak, John Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball coach and player
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1949