Michael Wenzl

Michael Wenzl
Player information
birthday	February 6, 1991
place of birth	Cake, Germany
size	210 cm
position	center
Jersey number	34
Clubs as active
2007–2012 ratiopharm ulm 2010–2012 → Weißenhorn Youngstars 2012–2013 BG Göttingen 2013–2014 Artland Dragons 2014–2016 Hamburg Towers

Michael Wenzl (born February 6, 1991 in Kuchen , Baden-Württemberg ) is a German basketball player . Wenzl was trained in the youth teams of the German first division club Ratiopharm Ulm and had his first two appearances in the top German division in the basketball Bundesliga 2009/10 . Then Wenzl was mainly active in the third highest division, ProB , with a double license , before he moved to the second highest division for ProA 2012/13 to the first division relegated BG Göttingen. After a season with the Artland Dragons in the top division, the A2 national player moved to the newly founded Hamburg Towers in 2014, back in the second division, ProA . His brother Andreas , who was two years younger than him , was initially aiming for a professional career and was active for the first division clubs from Ulm and Trier.

Career

Wenzl moved to the ratiopharm Academy and played there for the youth team of the German first division club from Ulm in the youth basketball league (NBBL). In the National Basketball League 2009/10 he had as his two years younger brother Andreas his first two appearances in the German top flight. In the following ProB 2010/11 he played with a double license mainly for the Ulm farm team Youngstars from Weissenhorn in the third highest division ProB , where he averaged a good twelve points and six rebounds per game. At the same time, Wenzl was regularly used by first division coach Thorsten Leibenath in the top division, where he only got a good three minutes of average playing time in 25 missions. In the 2011/12 season, however, his game shares stagnated both in the basketball Bundesliga, in which Ulm won the runner -up in the play-offs after reaching the finals, and in the ProB for the young stars, who after deducting points only in the play- downs could ensure relegation.

For the 2012/13 season, Wenzl moved to Lower Saxony to the first division relegated BG 74 from Göttingen . The Göttingen had reorganized after relegation and bankruptcy and together with, among others, Akeem Vargas , the team under coach Johan Roijakkers reached second place after the regular season of the ProA 2012/13 . In the play-offs for promotion, however, they failed in the first round due to direct promotion. Wenzl had good odds during his playing time and returned to the top division of the Bundesliga in 2013/14 when he was signed by the Dragons from the Artland community . With the Dragons, Wenzl also had his first appearances in international club competitions, but when he and the team were eliminated in the Eurocup 2013/14 after the preliminary round. In the league, the team surprisingly dethroned four-time defending champions Brose Baskets as seventh in the first play-off round for the championship , but then retired in the semi-final series against Alba Berlin . Wenzl had got a good five minutes per game in 17 missions and was no longer used in the play-offs. After signing A national player Andreas Seiferth in his position, Wenzl, who was part of the A2 national team in the summer of 2014 together with his brother Andreas at a tournament in the People's Republic of China , returned to the ProA, where he played the newly founded Towers from Hamburg . In the ProA 2014/15 , the team reached eighth place in the play-offs for promotion, in which they lost to the first division relegated and main round first s.Oliver Baskets Würzburg in three games. In March 2016 he suffered a knee injury and was out until the end of the 2015/16 season, after which his contract in Hamburg was not extended.

Web links

• Michael Wenzl - player profile on the website of the BARMER 2. Basketball Bundesliga ( ProA and ProB )
• easyCredit BBL - Michael Wenzl - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• WENZL, MICHAEL - player profile on the ULEB website ( English )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Player Statistics - Michael Wenzl. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , archived from the original on May 20, 2015 ; accessed on May 19, 2015 (profile on statistics pages). 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.  
2. ↑ A2 gentlemen travel to China. Deutscher Basketball Bund , July 14, 2014, accessed on May 19, 2015 (Medien-Info). 
3. ↑ Hamburg without center players Schmidt and Wenzl until the end of the season. In: www.zeit.de. March 14, 2016, accessed January 3, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Stefan Schmidt remains a tower. In: www.landespressedienst.de. July 7, 2016, accessed January 3, 2020 .