Lee Rowland

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Lee Rowland (* 1953 ) is a British football coach .

career

Rowland, who completed an apprenticeship as a steel worker and played football in the position of linebacker with the Croydon Coyotes, began his coaching career in his home country, the United Kingdom : Between 1984 and 1987 he was a member of the coaching staff of the Merton Admirals and coached the team the British second division the offensive line . From 1988 to 1991 he was the head coach of the SMC Admirals. In 1992 Rowland moved to the first division club London Olympians , was initially responsible for one season as an assistant coach for the offensive line and then from 1993 to 1995 the team's attack coordinator. He contributed to the Londoners' Eurobowl victories in 1993 and 1994, and was also three times English champion with them.

In 1996 Rowland went to Germany and looked after the Bundesliga club Hanau Hawks as head coach in the 1996, 1997 and 1998 years . In 1997 he led Hanau to the semi-finals of the German championship. In 1999 the Briton was the head coach of the Aschaffenburg Stallions , also in the top German league. For the 2000 season, Rowland moved to Northern Germany, he took over the position of head coach at the Hamburg Blue Devils , and in June 2000 he was dismissed after the season opener was botched and the relationship between Rowland and parts of the team had proven difficult. In 2000, he also ended his activity with the British national team, for which he had acted as attack coordinator and coach of the offensive line since 1994.

In the 2003 season he worked as the defense coordinator of the Rüsselsheim Razorbacks in the GFL . In the run-up to the 2005 season, Rowland took up service as head coach of the second division club Darmstadt Diamonds , led the team to GFL promotion in his first year in office and then looked after them in the top German division in 2006. He led Darmstadt as a climber to the GFL quarter-finals, where they were eliminated against the future German champions, the Braunschweig Lions . In 2007 Rowland was a member of the coaching staff of the Cologne Centurions ( NFL Europe ) and was responsible for looking after players with special tasks and running backs at Cologne . After the end of the season in the NFL Europe, the Briton was on the coaching staff at Webber International University in the US state of Florida .

On January 1, 2008, Rowland took up the post of assistant coach responsible for the offensive line and the running game at the Dresden Monarchs and worked for the Saxons under head coach Shuan Fatah . He also worked with Fatah in 2009 and 2010 for the Berlin Adlers . As coordinator of the attack game, Rowland was involved in the Berlin championship title in 2009, the 2010 runner-up and winning the 2010 Eurobowl.

In 2011 he joined the Swarco Raiders in Austria with Fatah , where he was also the coordinator of the attack game. By the end of the 2019 season, Rowland won five Austrian championship titles as assistant coach with the Tyroleans, the Eurobowl in 2011, again reached the Eurobowl in 2013 and 2016 (but lost there), won three times in the Central European Football League and won the final once each the ECTC (European Club Team Competition) and the Superfinal. During his tenure in Tyrol in November 2013 he was a guest trainer at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). After leaving Austria, Rowland moved back to Germany together with Fatah and accepted an offer from the Hildesheim Invaders in the run-up to the 2020 season , in which the "offensive specialist" again acted as the attack coordinator under head coach Fatah.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lee Rowland - Pro Football Archives. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Aschaffenburg Stallions trainer as Merrit's successor - "looking forward to the challenge" / Searching for players is in full swing: Rowland is the new Devils coach. November 15, 1999, accessed on February 21, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ a b c d https://www.afcvt.at/Afcvt/files/2e/2e3042ef-7815-4a30-87f6-60166ef2e24e.pdf
  4. ^ GFL 1997. In: football-history.de. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Alexander Becker: Blue Devils separated from head coach Lee Rowland . In: THE WORLD . June 19, 2000 ( welt.de [accessed February 21, 2020]).
  6. ↑ GFL 2006. In: football-history.de. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
  7. ↑ MONARCHS OBLIGATE ASSISTANT COACH. In: GFL. Accessed January 31, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Sebastian Leis- www.redvisionmedia.com: 09/11/2009: Will the "Berlin Wall" hold up ? Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
  9. ^ German Bowl Winner - German Bowl XLII. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
  10. ↑ a b Master Coach Shuan Fatah and two other SWARCO Raiders travel to the Oakland Raiders. Retrieved February 21, 2020 (American English).
  11. ↑ End of an Era: Shuan Fatah and Lee Rowland leave Swarco Raiders! September 23, 2019, accessed February 21, 2020 (American English).
  12. ↑ LEE ROWLAND GOES TO ELITE UNI UCLA. In: raiders.at. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
  13. ↑ https://www.touchdown24.de/gfl/hildesheim-invaders-stellen-neues-trainer-duo-vor.html
personal data
SURNAME Rowland, Lee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British American football coach
DATE OF BIRTH 1953