Marco Sanders

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Marco Alexander Sanders (born August 11, 1979 in Rochester ) is a German - American basketball coach and former player.

career

player

Sanders, son of a German mother and an American father, grew up mostly in Heidenheim . He later played basketball at Spring Valley High School in the US state of South Carolina , in the 1999/2000 season at the College of Charleston in the first NCAA division (6 games: 0.7 points on average) and then at Point Park University in the NAIA . There Sanders scored an average of 16.5 points and 10 rebounds per encounter in his final 2002/03 season.

The 2.02 meter tall indoor player embarked on a career as a professional basketball player after finishing his university career and signed a contract with the Finnish first division club Salon Vilpas during the summer break of 2003. He came during the 2003/04 season on 41 missions for Vilpas and averages of 15.1 points and 7.7 rebounds per encounter. During his first year as a professional, Sanders moved to the French second division club Roche-St. Etienne and was used there in four games until the end of the season.

In the 2004/05 game he was in the Finnish second division with Lapuan Korikobrat under contract and was one of the team's top performers. After playing for Kaposvar SE in Hungary in 2005/06, he started the 2006/07 game year at the Italian premier league club Air Avellino , then played at Basket-Club Boncourt in Switzerland (7 games: 11.1 points and 6.6 rebounds / Game in the league; 3 games: 11.3 points and 4.3 rebounds / game in the EuroCup Challenge), before he returned to Finland after another short detour to Scafati Basket in Italy's first division and there until the end of the 2006 season / 07 played at Lappeenranta NMKY . At Lappeenranta NMKY, Sanders posted an average of 11.6 points and 7.3 rebounds per game in 19 league appearances.

2007/08 Sanders was in the service of the Hungarian first division team Dombóvár KC, from 2008 to 2010 he played 52 games in the basketball league for EnBW Ludwigsburg . While he scored 5 points and 2.9 rebounds per match in the 2008/09 Bundesliga season, his playing time in the following year fell by a good ten minutes to 8:17 minutes per match. In 20 Bundesliga games in the 2009/10 season, he scored 2 points and 1.4 rebounds per use.

The inside player continued his career in the first Norwegian league, was player-coach at the Centrum Tigers Oslo and from 2013 as a player for Ammerud Basket, where in each of his three years he achieved double-digit mean values ​​for the point yield (maximum value: 15.8 points / Game in the 2013/14 season).

Trainer

Towards the end of his playing days, Sanders also worked as a coach (partly as a player-coach) for the Norwegian first division club Centrum Tigers Oslo from 2010 and remained in office until 2012. From the 2014/15 season he looked after the Norwegian women's first division club Ullern IF and led them to win the championship in 2015 and 2016. In addition, he led the female U18 selection in Eastern Norway. At Oppsal Basket he also worked as a coach.

For the Norwegian Basketball Association he worked as the national coach of the female U18 team and later as an assistant coach for the male U16 and U18 teams. In 2019 he became the coach of the first division team Ammerud Basket and in the spring of 2020 he intervened again as a player-coach in the action on the field.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.schoenen-dunk.de/news_a26951_MHP-RIESEN-Ludwigsburg_Marco-Sanders-unterschritten-fuer-2-Jahre-in-Ludwigsburg.htm
  2. ^ Marco Sanders College Stats. Retrieved July 21, 2019 .
  3. ↑ https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/marco-sanders-vilppaaseen/4136906#gs.r46hjj
  4. ↑ Marco Sanders Vilpas-paitaan. Retrieved July 21, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b c d Proballers: Marco Sanders, basketball player. Retrieved July 21, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Miesten divarissa kolmen kerroksen väkeä. Retrieved July 21, 2019 .
  7. ↑ http://www.fibaeurope.com/compID_3PFNKyhLHWIYKHG2fZORy3.roundID_5086.season_2007.teamID_92445.playerID_46325.html
  8. ↑ easyCredit - 10850 Marco SANDERS. Retrieved July 21, 2019 .
  9. ↑ TV 2 AS: Hvem vinner årets «Final Four»? Retrieved July 21, 2019 (Bokmål in Norwegian).
  10. ↑ Mette Bugge: Denne 14-åringen spiller basket i eliteserien. October 12, 2014, accessed on July 21, 2019 (Norwegian Bokmål).
  11. ↑ NBBF Region Øst. Retrieved July 21, 2019 .
  12. ^ Oppsal Basket. Retrieved July 21, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Lag. Retrieved July 21, 2019 (Swedish).
  14. ↑ Uttak til Nordisk Mesterskap 2018. Accessed on July 21, 2019 (nb-NO).
  15. ↑ Toppidrett. Retrieved July 21, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Må Bygge nytt Ammerud-lag. Retrieved August 28, 2020 (Bokmål in Norwegian).
  17. ↑ - Har én fot i sluttspillet. Retrieved August 28, 2020 (Bokmål in Norwegian).
personal data
SURNAME Sanders, Marco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sanders, Marco Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochester (New York)