Jonathan Chapman (basketball player)

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Jonathan Chapman is a retired American basketball coach and player.

Life

Chapman played basketball in his home country from 1969 to 1972 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) under coach John Wooden . In a total of 66 missions, the 1.96-meter-tall winger achieved an average of 1.3 points per encounter. He then played for the German Bundesliga club ADB Koblenz and from 1975 at Post SV Bayreuth in Germany, with whom he rose to the basketball Bundesliga in 1976 . In the 1976/77 Bundesliga season, Chapman, who in addition to his basketball work at Post SV in a Bayreuth department store as a seller of sporting goods, was second on the basketball list and had a large share in the Bayreuth relegation. In the 1978/79 season he was involved with Bayreuth in a game against local rivals Bamberg that went down in the history books: the clash between the two teams was about relegation and relegation in the Bundesliga. Bayreuth won with a basket in the last second and stayed in the Bundesliga, while Bamberg was relegated. Chapman stayed as a player in Bayreuth until 1980.

At the beginning of the 1981/82 season, Chapman took up the position of coach in Bayreuth, his assistant was Karl-Heinz Graf . After a failed start to the season with three defeats in a row, the team supervised by Chapman recovered and defeated the German champions Saturn Cologne , among others . When Richard Harnett Bayreuth's American was injured, Chapman was back on the field as player-coach. After several defeats in a row as well as the elimination in the DBB Cup against the then second division Bamberg, Chapman and the club separated in January 1982. He was replaced by Leopold Dejworek , who from then on headed the team as a player-coach.

After returning to the United States, Chapman worked as a teacher in California . Until 2012 he was also the coach of the basketball team at Culver City High School for years.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ JA ADANDE: High-Flying Bruin Crew Revels in Its Historic Past . In: Los Angeles Times . August 23, 1998.
  2. ↑ Jon Chapman College Stats. Accessed April 28, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Norbayerischer Kurier: 40 years ago: First division - Nordbayerischer Kurier. Retrieved April 28, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Dino Reisner: Because the players ran up for 15 marks consumption money . In: 111 reasons to love Medi Bayreuth: A declaration of love to the greatest basketball city in the world . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86265-770-4 , pp. 30, 31 .
  5. ↑ Norbayerischer Kurier: Bowing to basketball tradition - Nordbayerischer Kurier. Retrieved April 28, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk Wolfram Porr: Basketball in Bayreuth: Everything started as Post SV . April 27, 2017 ( br.de [accessed April 28, 2019]).
  7. ^ Dino Reisner: Because the Post-SV marched through to the Bundesliga . In: 111 reasons to love Medi Bayreuth: A declaration of love to the greatest basketball city in the world . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86265-770-4 , pp. 26-28 .
  8. ↑ a b Dino Reisner: Because the USC reached the championship round . In: 111 reasons to love Medi Bayreuth: A declaration of love to the greatest basketball city in the world . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86265-770-4 , pp. 54-56 .
  9. ↑ Season 1981/1982. In: USC Heidelberg. Retrieved April 28, 2019 .
  10. ^ Culver City Observer: Eskridge To Coach Culver Basketball. Retrieved April 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Chapman, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball coach and player
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century