Michael Claxton

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Basketball player
Michael Claxton
Player information
Full name Michael Brandon Claxton
birthday December 10, 1976
size 193 cm
position Trainer
college MSU Northern
Clubs as coaches
2006–2014 Seattle Academy 2014–2016 SC Rist Wedel 2016–2018 Turów Zgorzelec 2018 BC Prievidza since 2020 Bozeman Gallatin HS United StatesUnited States
GermanyGermany
PolandPoland
0000SlovakiaSlovakia
0 United StatesUnited States

Michael Brandon Claxton (born December 10, 1976 ) is an American basketball coach and former player.

career

player

Claxton, who comes from Chester in the US state of Montana , played at Chester High School until 1995. He was then a member of the team at Montana Technological University, then Montana State University Billings and, until 2001, Montana State University-Northern . Then he hit a professional career. The first stop of the development and winger was the German regional division TuS Iserlohn in 2001/02 . In the 2002/03 season he was first in the squad of the second division club TV Langen , before he joined the BG Zehlendorf from the regional league during the season . In the 2003/04 season Claxton first played for the regional division Krefeld Panthers , in December 2003 he was brought to SC Rist Wedel by coach Pat Elzie and helped the North Germans to stay in the regional division with an average of 27.2 points per encounter. He was also active in Wedel at the beginning of the following season before they split up and Claxton moved to another regional league team, MTV Stuttgart .

In 2005 Claxton ran in his home country for Tacoma Thunder in the International Basketball League (IBL), before he strengthened the UBC Hannover in the German league. In eleven games for Lower Saxony, he achieved an average of 25.4 points per game and won the championship title with the UBC. Following the 2005/06 season, he returned to the United States and was next to his work at the Seattle Academy until 2009 in the IBL for various teams from the city of Tacoma on the field. In 2016 and 2017 Claxton became German champions in the over 35 competition class with the senior team of SC Rist Wedel.

Trainer

From 2006 to 2014, Claxton was the Seattle Academy's PE teacher and coach of the boys' basketball team. With this team he went into the Emerald City League (ECL). In the 2010/11 season Claxton was named Coach of the Year by the ECL. In addition, he worked as a coach in the “Jamal Crawford Pro AM” league during the summer months. In the summer of 2014 he started working as the head coach of SC Rist Wedel in the German 2nd Bundesliga ProB . In his first year in office he led Wedel to second place in the main round of the ProB North and in the subsequent playoffs in the ProB final. There the team lost to Oldenburg. His fellow countrymen Brandon Spearman and Diante Watkins were among his protégés during that season . The latter was named Player of the Year in the ProB. In June 2016, Claxton became German over 35 champions as a player with Wedel. After the 2015/16 game year, in which Claxton Wedel led to remaining in the 2nd Bundesliga ProB in the relegation round, he left the club and became Mathias Fischer's assistant coach at the Polish first division club Turów Zgorzelec at the beginning of the 2016/17 season . After Fischer's move to Bundesliga club Tübingen at the end of November 2017, Claxton was promoted to head coach. He led the team to move into the championship round of the Polish league in spring 2018, after the end of the 2017/18 season his contract was not extended.

At the end of July 2018 he was introduced as the new head coach of the Slovak first division club BC Prievidza . Just before Christmas 2018, Claxton was sacked in Prievidza after four defeats in a row. In total, the team had won eight league games and lost eight under his leadership since the beginning of the 2018/19 season. In 2020, he became the coach of the boys' team at Bozeman Gallatin High School in the US state of Montana .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Claxton - Men's Basketball. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Rich basketball journey comes full circle for new Gallatin boys coach Mike Claxton. April 22, 2020, accessed on July 19, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Frederik Büll: Giving up is never an option . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on September 29, 2017]).
  4. ^ The 37th season of 2002/03 . In: Long basketball . January 1, 2016 ( lang-basketball.de [accessed September 29, 2017]). The 37th season 2002/03 ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lang-basketball.de
  5. ↑ shz.de: Basketball: Journey into the Past | shz.de . In: shz . ( shz.de [accessed September 29, 2017]).
  6. ^ Frank Will: Basketball: Home debut for Elzie and Claxton . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on September 29, 2017]).
  7. ↑ BBL GmbH. Retrieved September 29, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Frank Will: SC Rist: Vague hopes for the rise. September 17, 2004, accessed December 27, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Frank Will: Rist fires Claxton before the Derby at the Tigers . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on September 29, 2017]).
  10. ↑ https://www.basketball-bund.net/statistik.do?reqCode=statBesteWerferArchiv&_top=-1&_absolut=0
  11. ↑ Braunschweiger Zeitung, Braunschweig, Germany: Opponent with three US boys: BBG still keeps up . ( braunschweiger-zeitung.de [accessed September 29, 2017]).
  12. ↑ https://www.basketball-bund.net/statistik.do?reqCode=statTeamArchiv&liga_id=318&saison_id=2005
  13. ↑ Game Box Score. Retrieved September 29, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Frederik Büll: SC Rist over 35 team wins German championship title . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on September 29, 2017]).
  15. ↑ Title defended! The SC Rist is again German over 35 champions . In: SC Rist Wedel . ( scrist.de [accessed September 29, 2017]).
  16. ↑ SAAS Says Goodbye to Coach Claxton: Mentor and Role-Model . In: The Cardinal . ( saascardinal.org [accessed September 29, 2017]).
  17. ^ Claxton Named ECL Coach of the Year; Brandon MVP. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 29, 2017 ; Retrieved September 29, 2017 (American English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.seattleacademy.info
  18. ↑ http://www.schoenen-dunk.de/news_a69027_ProB_Rueckkehr-nach-zehn-Jahren-Michael-Claxton-wird-neuer-Headcoach.htm
  19. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt - Hamburg: Michael Claxton will train Rist Wedels basketball player in the future . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on May 21, 2018]).
  20. ↑ Rister lose the second leg and are runner-up - FOR THREE 43 basketball. Retrieved September 29, 2017 .
  21. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt - Hamburg: Rist wins with the invincible . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on September 29, 2017]).
  22. ↑ http://www.schoenen-dunk.de/news_a76062_ProB_Diante-Watkins-Wider-alle-Klischees.htm
  23. ↑ http://www.schoenen-dunk.de/news_a82920_Sonstiges_Deutsche-Memeisterschaft-Ue35-Gold-und-Silber-fuer-den-SC-Rist.htm
  24. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Michael Claxton leaves the SC Rist. Retrieved September 29, 2017 (German).
  25. ↑ Michał Bajda: Fishermen wybrał asystenta - PGE Turów Zgorzelec . ( ksturow.eu [accessed September 29, 2017]). Fischer wybrał asystenta - PGE Turów Zgorzelec ( Memento of the original dated September 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ksturow.eu
  26. ↑ Tobias Fischer: Search finished! Mathias Fischer new head coach in Tübingen. Walter Tigers Tübingen, accessed on November 29, 2017 .
  27. ↑ Bartosz Sen: Zmiana na stanowisku pierwszego Trenera - PGE Turów Zgorzelec . ( ksturow.eu [accessed November 29, 2017]).
  28. ↑ Bartosz Seń: Dziękujemy Mike! - PGE Turów Zgorzelec . ( ksturow.eu [accessed on May 21, 2018]). Dziękujemy Mike! - PGE Turów Zgorzelec ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ksturow.eu
  29. ↑ Novym trénerom BC Prievidza Michael Claxton :: PDBASKET.com. Retrieved December 27, 2018 .
  30. ↑ Michael Claxton končí! :: PDBASKET.com. Retrieved December 27, 2018 .
  31. ↑ BC Prievidza basketball, News, Roster, Rumors, Stats, Awards, Transactions, Details - eurobasket. Retrieved December 27, 2018 .
  32. ^ Bozeman Gallatin High School announces new head coaching hires. February 5, 2020, accessed on February 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Claxton, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Claxton, Michael Brandon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball coach and player
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1976