Linda Fröhlich

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Linda Fröhlich-Todd (born June 23, 1979 in Pforzheim ) is a former German basketball player . She completed 79 senior international matches and is considered one of the best players in German basketball history.

General

Linda Fröhlich's mother, Vineta Fröhlich, played for the national basketball team of the Soviet Union in the 1970s . Three of the four Fröhlich siblings also play in this sport. Her brother Richard Fröhlich played among other things in the second division.

In June 1998 she successfully passed her Abitur at the Vincent-Lübeck-Gymnasium in Stade . She has lived in the USA since 1998 and has been married there since 2006. Her official name is Happy-Todd after her marriage. After Marlies Askamps retired , she was considered the best German basketball player. Fröhlich has three children.

Club career

In 1991 Fröhlich started her basketball career at TSV Lamstedt. She moved to VfL Stade and trained and played there at times with the male B-youth. In 1994 she moved to SC Rist Wedel in the youth and in the 2nd women's basketball league . In her youth she became German champions with Wedel, and one of her teammates was Katharina Kühn . In Wedel, Fröhlich was promoted by Ewald Schauer , which she later viewed in retrospect as very important for her further career. After graduating from high school, she went to the University of Nevada - Las Vegas in the USA , where she studied psychology and marketing and played basketball for four years.

In 2002 Linda Fröhlich made the leap into the US women's professional basketball league - WNBA . She was signed by the New York Libertys and played there for two years. Also in 2004 ( Phoenix Mercury ) and 2005 ( Charlotte Sting ) she wanted to play in the WNBA. However, she was rejected in 2004 due to late arrival in the USA and released early in 2005 during the training camp.

From 2003 she also played for the Italian first division club BPT Rovereto Basket . There she became the best basket hunter in the league in the 2004/05 season. In 2005 she moved to Russia to Spartak Moskowskaja Oblast . With this club, she won the EuroCup for women's teams in 2006.

In 2006 Fröhlich played again in the WNBA, this time for the Indiana Fever team . She reached the playoffs with her team. She averaged 3.3 points in 8.5 minutes of play. She then went to Fenerbahçe Istanbul , moved to the WNBA for Sacramento Monarchs (WNBA) in 2007 and played in Italy for Taranto Cras Basket. After signing with the Slovak Club Maxima Broker Košice, she announced her move to Gambrinus Sika Brno (Czech Republic) on her website in January 2009. In 2010 she moved to Ros Caseres Valencia in the 1st Spanish league, and in January 2011 to the Greek club AEO Proteas Voulas. She was appointed to the all-star team of the Greek league in 2011.

In April 2011, Fröhlich was awarded a training contract by the WNBA club Chicago Sky and then removed from the squad in June. Then she ended her playing career.

National team

In April 1998 Fröhlich made her debut in the women's national team of the DBB against the Finnish selection. In qualifying for the European Championship in 2004, she was the most successful player of all participating teams with an average of 23.3 points and 11.2 rebounds. At the European Championship in 2005 she only reached 11th place with the German team, but was able to achieve a positive balance personally with 16.4 points and 9 rebounds on average.

After participating in the 2007 European Championships in Chieti ( Italy ), she could not be used in the European Championship qualification in 2008 due to balance problems. The German team missed direct qualification and had to play an additional qualifying round against Ukraine and Bulgaria. Due to a doping ban on November 24, 2008, Fröhlich could not be used in this additional qualifying round for the European Championship until January 5, 2009.

In January 2009 she was deleted from the national team's squad. The reason given by the Presidium of the German Basketball Federation (DBB) was that Fröhlich had repeatedly let the team down. One is not willing to tolerate this any longer or to meet the player's financial demands. The DBB campaigned for the doping ban to be lifted and she did not appear to the games after it was unblocked and did not report.

Fröhlich, on the other hand, stated that she had always tried to play for the national team and even suffered considerable financial losses as a result. She only found out about her suspension from the Internet and finds it underhanded.

In July 2010, the German Basketball Federation announced that Linda Fröhlich was reappointed to the national team.

Between 1998 and 2010, Fröhlich completed a total of 79 senior international matches for Germany and took part in the European Championship tournaments in 2005 and 2007.

Achievements / honors

Fröhlich was named Mountain West Conference's Player of the Year in 2000, 2001 and 2002. In 2006 she was named Germany's most successful basketball player. By the time she retired from college in 2002, she had scored more points (2,355) and rebounds (1,124) than any player on the UNLV women's team before her and was the first UNLV player to score at least 2,000 points in her career 1,000 rebounds .

In 2012 Fröhlich was inducted into the Hall of Fame at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Doping ban

At the end of 2008, the prohibited drug hydrochlorothiazide was detected at Fröhlich and it was banned. According to the DBB, their club at the time had forgotten to notify the European basketball association of the medically necessary intake of a drug containing hydrochlorothiazide. On January 5, 2009, the European basketball federation set the doping ban for six weeks and thus granted her the right to play again on that day. Fröhlich said that due to an ear infection, she had to take a drug with an active ingredient on the doping list. She informed her association of this and the latter had sent a corresponding letter to the wrong address, so that the FIBA ​​world association did not have it. At a hearing on January 5, 2009, she was acquitted.

After the playing career

In 2012 Fröhlich founded a basketball academy in the US state of California .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dreampions | Linda Fröhlich. In: Dreampions. Retrieved December 3, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Abendblatt.de
  3. ↑ Website of the German Basketball Federation ( Memento from May 23, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ 50 years of SC Rist ... with Katharina Kühn. In: schoenen-dunk.de. Retrieved December 25, 2018 .
  5. ↑ 50 years of SC Rist ... with Ewald Schauer (2nd part). In: SC Rist Wedel. Archived from the original on December 1, 2018 ; accessed on December 25, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Photos and information about Linda Fröhlich on informationen-marburg.de
  7. ↑ SKY: The Chicago Sky Signs Linda Frohlich. In: www.wnba.com. Retrieved December 3, 2016 .
  8. ↑ WNBA.com: 2011 WNBA Transactions. In: www.wnba.com. Retrieved December 3, 2016 .
  9. ^ Website of the German Basketball Federation ( Memento from May 23, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Fröhlich is no longer in the DBB squad . German Basketball Association. January 12, 2009. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
  11. ↑ a b Analysis: End of tolerance. Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 24, 2015, accessed on August 14, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Linda Fröhlich banned from the national team: "It hurts very much" moz.de, January 26, 2009
  13. ↑ DBB ladies: Linda Fröhlich returns . German Basketball Association. July 8, 2010. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
  14. ↑ Hans-Joachim Mahr: http://mahr.sb-vision.de/dbb/html/damen/player/spielespieler.aspx?spnr=111. In: mahr.sb-vision.de. Retrieved December 3, 2016 .
  15. ↑ UNLVREBELS.COM - University of Nevada Las Vegas Official Athletic Site. In: www.unlvrebels.com. Archived from the original on December 4, 2016 ; Retrieved December 3, 2016 .
  16. ↑ UNLVREBELS.COM - University of Nevada Las Vegas Official Athletic Site. In: www.unlvrebels.com. Archived from the original on December 4, 2016 ; Retrieved December 3, 2016 .
  17. ↑ UNLV's Hall Of Fame Class Of 2012 Announced . ( unlvrebels.com [accessed December 3, 2016]).
  18. ↑ Fiba.com ( Memento from January 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ↑ Interview in the online edition of the Frankfurter Rundschau
  20. ↑ Linda Frohlich Basketball Academy. In: www.fro13.com. Archived from the original on December 4, 2016 ; Retrieved December 3, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME Happy, Linda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Happy-Todd, Linda (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim