Julius Wolf (basketball player)

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Basketball player
Julius Wolf
Player information
birthday January 26, 1993
place of birth Bruchsal, Germany
size 201 cm
Weight 101 kg
position Power forward
Club information
society Science City Jena
league 2nd Bundesliga ProA
Jersey number 10
Clubs as active
2008–2012 GermanyGermany Team Ursprung ( NBBL )
2009–2012 GermanyGermany → Erdgas Ehingen / Urspring School
2012-2013 GermanyGermany FC Bayern Munich II
since 2013 GermanyGermany Science City Jena
1 As of 08/21/2019

Julius Wolf (born January 26, 1993 in Bruchsal , Baden-Württemberg ) is a German basketball player . Wolf, whose parents Horst and Inken Wolf were also successful basketball players, won the German championship twice with the team from the Urspring School in the youth basketball league (NBBL) . After Wolf already had individual appearances in the men's team in the second-highest division ProA , after a year in the regional league he has been playing for the second team of FC Bayern Munich since 2013 for the second division Science City Jena. Wolf's brother Enosch, who is a good two years older than him, plays for the Tigers Tübingen .

Career

Wolf grew up in his mother's home in Göttingen , where the family settled at the end of his father's active career in 1998. In 2008 Wolf went to the boarding school of the Urspring School in Schelklingen , which is known for training basketball players. After the defending champion Team Original's defeat at the NBBL Top Four 2009 in the semi-final, the title was regained in 2010 when the defending champion, the offspring of Alba Berlin led by Niels Giffey , was defeated in the final . Then Wolf was appointed to the squad of the German host for the U17 World Cup in Hamburg , where he was the best German rebounder with seven rebounds per game at the side of Bogdan Radosavljević . After two first victories, the German junior team lost disastrously against the eventual runner-up world champions Poland and could then only win one game, which was enough for eighth place out of twelve participating teams. In 2011, the Schelklinger were able to defend their NBBL championship against TSV Tröster Breitengüßbach , the offspring of the then German men's champion Brose Baskets , before they were defeated by this team in the 2012 semi-finals.

In the men's area, the boarding school cooperated with TSV Ehingen. In the ProB 2009/10 Julius Wolf had his first appearance for the first men's team in the third highest division ProB . When the Ehinger in the ProB 2010/11 as a class master reached promotion to the second highest division ProA , Wolf got five short appearances before he came to eight appearances with almost ten minutes per game in the ProA 2011/12 , in which the promoted team followed Twelve victories of the season reached safe relegation. Julius Wolf then followed his youth coach Felix Czerny to FC Bayern Munich, where he was part of the extended squad of the first division and was used in the fourth highest division regional league in the second team. After a year without playing in the first team in the top division, Wolf went back to the second division and moved to the former first division club Science City in Jena . There he belonged in the ProA 2013/14 in the rotation of the players from coach Björn Harmsen to a constant size with almost 18 minutes playing time per game, which he increased by five minutes to 23 minutes per game in the following season, which he next Lars Wendt was one of the German players with the most playing time. After the fifth main round place in 2014, the Jenensers reached fourth place in the ProA 2014/15 , but were eliminated in the first play-off round for promotion as in the previous year .

In 2016, winning the championship in the 2nd Bundesliga ProA finally made it into the Bundesliga. Wolf contributed to this success in the course of the 2015/16 season on average 6.6 points and 4.1 rebounds per encounter (38 season appearances). At the beginning of August 2017, he had to undergo back surgery, which then forced him to take a month-long break.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Anschütz: The Wolfs: Basketball in the Blood. Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine , June 29, 2011, accessed on May 18, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b Julius Wolf shines as the best German rebounder. Göttinger Tageblatt , July 14, 2010, accessed on May 18, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b c Player Statistics - Julius Wolf. Basketball Bundesliga , accessed on May 18, 2015 (profile on statistics pages).
  4. ↑ "Absolutely crazy to decline the offer". Göttinger Tageblatt , August 24, 2012, accessed on May 18, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Andreas Rabel: Basketball in the blood: Julius Wolf with Science City Jena before his first ProA season. Ostthüringer Zeitung , September 27, 2013, accessed on May 18, 2015 .
  6. ↑ LONG BREAK FOR JULIUS WOLF - WING PLAYER CANCELED AFTER BACK OPERATION. August 15, 2017. Retrieved April 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruchsal , Germany