Mario Zurkowski

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Mario Zurkowski (born March 28, 1988 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German basketball coach .

Life

Zurkowski worked as a youth coach at SC Hassel and CSG Bulmke before moving to the junior division of BSV Wulfen in 2010 . In the run-up to the 2012/13 season, in addition to his tasks in youth work, he became assistant to head coach Heimo Förster for the men's team in Wulfen in the second national basketball league Pro B.

For the 2014/15 season he moved to the Herner TC and coached the girls of the HTC in the female youth basketball league (WNBL). At the beginning of May 2015, HTC won the championship title in the WNBL under Zurkowski's leadership. In the 2015/16 season he was WNBL trainer and trainer of the HTC II in the women's regional league in Herne.

In mid-April 2016, women's second division team Osnabrücker SC Zurkowski announced that they would be head coach. In the 2018/19 season he led the Lower Saxons to the championship in the 2nd Bundesliga North and thus to promotion to the highest German division, the DBBL . He also moved into the final of the DBBL Cup with Osnabrück as a second division team, but lost to Herne there in March 2019. He was then named Trainer of the Year 2019 in the city of Osnabrück . In February 2020 Zurkowski announced that he would be leaving Osnabrück at the end of the 2019/20 season to take on a new task. In the 2019/20 season, which was canceled in mid-March due to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, Osnabrück reached seventh place in the final table of the Bundesliga as a climber under Zurkowski's leadership.

At the beginning of July 2020 he was introduced as the new head coach of the women's second division team Rheinland Lions (previously SG Bergische Löwen) from Bergisch Gladbach .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ https://www.pressreader.com/germany/neue-osnabrucker-zeitung-stadt-osnabruck/20190320/282140702713722
  2. ↑ https://www.schoenen-dunk.de/news_a55533_ProB_Mario-Zurkowski-wird-ProB-Co-Trainer-und-leitet-BSV-Foerderkader.htm
  3. ↑ U17 girls want to play upstairs. September 2, 2014, accessed on March 22, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ U17 of HTC is German champion. In: inHerne. Retrieved on March 22, 2020 (German).
  5. ↑ Zurkowski also takes over HTC II. August 19, 2015, accessed on March 22, 2020 (German).
  6. ↑ Johannes Kapitza: Coach comes from the Herner TC: Mario Zurkowski is the coach of the OSC Panthers. Retrieved March 22, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Johannes Kapitza: Annual Review: 2019 - the year of the Girolive-Panthers. Retrieved March 22, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Reactions to the sensation: "Unbelievable" - Panthers are in the basketball cup final. Retrieved March 22, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Big fight is not rewarded: Girolive-Panthers lose cup final against Herner TC 63:79. Retrieved March 22, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Laura Tiesmeyer: Life's work Leo for Dieter Glatzer. In: OS-Radio 104.8. February 17, 2020, accessed on March 22, 2020 (German).
  11. ↑ Johannes Kapitza: "Out of my comfort zone": Promotion trainer Zurkowski leaves Girolive-Panthers at the end of the season. Retrieved March 22, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Statement by the managing director on the discontinuation of gaming operations in the 1st DBBL. In: Women's Basketball Bundesliga. March 13, 2020, accessed on March 22, 2020 (German).
  13. ↑ 1st Bundesliga. In: Women's Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved on March 22, 2020 (German).
  14. ↑ "MSP Bergische Löwen" become "RheinLand Lions". In: Women's Basketball Bundesliga. June 27, 2020, accessed on July 3, 2020 (German).
  15. ↑ Mario Zurkowski new trainer for the RheinLand Lions. In: Women's Basketball Bundesliga. July 2, 2020, accessed on July 3, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Zurkowski, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen