Olaf Lange

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Basketball player
Olaf Lange
Player information
birthday March 30, 1972
place of birth Berlin , Germany
Clubs as coaches
1995–1997 Gold-Zack Wuppertal (AC) 1997–2002 Gold-Zack Wuppertal 2003–2004 Central German Basketball Club (AC) 2004 Ros Caceres Valencia 2005–2007 Liberty University (AC) 2007–2009 San Antonio Silver Stars (AC) 2010– 2012 Logan Thunder 2012–2018 UGMK Yekaterinburg since 2019 Chicago Sky (AC) GermanyGermany
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National team as coach
1998 Germany women 1999–2002 Germany women U20 2001–2003 Germany women 2003 Germany men U20 2003 Germany men A2 (AC) 2017 Australia women (AC) 2017–2019 Russia women since 2019 Australia women (AC) 00000 GermanyGermany
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Olaf Lange (born March 30, 1972 in Berlin ) is a German basketball coach. Among other things, he was the coach of the Russian women's selection. He previously worked as the national coach of the German women's national team.

career

His coaching career began for a long time in his hometown of Berlin at VfL Lichtenrade : He looked after the club's women's team between 1989 and 1991 in the regional league. From 1991 to 1995 he worked as a trainer in the youth department of TuS Lichterfelde . He was also a member of the coaching staff of the Berlin Basketball Association from 1993 to 1995. From 1991 to 1995 he completed a degree in sports science at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

In 1995, Lange moved to Gold-Zack Wuppertal , the dominant women's team in German basketball at the time. In every year he worked for Wuppertal until 2002, Lange became German champion: from 1995 to 1997 as assistant coach, between 1997 and 2002 as head coach. He also contributed to winning the Europa League as an assistant in 1996. After a donor withdrew in 2002, the team stopped playing in the Bundesliga.

Between 2001 (i.e. partly during his term in office in Wuppertal) and 2003, Lange was the national coach of the German women's national team on a fee basis; he had been in charge of the women's national team for the U20 age group since 1999, and later he also worked in the men's area for the German Basketball Association.

In the 2003/04 season he was an assistant coach on the staff of the men's Bundesliga club Mitteldeutscher Basketball Club and was thus involved in winning the European club competition FIBA EuroCup Challenge . Then Lange moved abroad. After a stint in Spain (Ros Caceres Valencia), he was a member of the coaching staff of the women's team at Liberty University in the US state of Virginia from 2005 .

In March 2007, Lange was assistant coach of the San Antonio Silver Stars in the US division WNBA , working side by side with his wife Sandy Brondello , who also worked as an assistant coach, before being promoted to head coach in February 2010. At the Silver Stars, the Berliner took on tasks in preparation and follow-up via video as well as in player development.

In March 2010, Lange took over the post of head coach at the Australian club Logan Thunder, his wife became his assistant coach. In 2012, the couple accepted the offer of the Russian top club UGMK Yekaterinburg . Long led the team to win the EuroLeague in 2013 and 2016 and to the Russian championship title in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. In September 2017 he took over the position of head coach of the Russian women's national team. In 2017 he was also assistant coach of the women's national team and assistant to his wife Sandy Brondello. In mid-January 2018, Lange resigned from his position as coach of Jekatarienburg for family reasons. The time under the leadership of the German had been the most successful in the club's history, his services were recognized in the club's press release on the occasion of the separation. He remained the Russian national coach until summer 2019. Then he returned to work as assistant coach of the Australian team, and in mid-December 2019 he was also introduced as assistant coach of the Chicago Sky (WNBA).

Private life

Lange is married to Sandy Brondello, who played in Wuppertal from 1992 to 2002. The former Australian international also started a coaching career after her playing career. The couple have two children, Brody and Jayda.

Success as a head coach

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Boller: When the BTV celebrated the triple in 1996 . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . April 3, 2016 ( wz.de [accessed January 20, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Basketball: "An absolute disaster" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 2, 2002, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed January 20, 2017]).
  3. ↑ RP ONLINE: No new contract for successful coach Motte: Basketball: Olaf Lange new national coach for women. Retrieved January 20, 2017 .
  4. ↑ MBC expands coaching staff. Mitteldeutscher BC, June 27, 2003, accessed January 20, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Anna Blumtritt: Big anniversary at the MBC: 10 years of the FIBA ​​Europe Cup Championship. Mitteldeutscher BC, March 28, 2014, accessed January 20, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Olaf Lange | Women's basketball | Liberty Flames. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 20, 2017 ; accessed on January 20, 2017 . 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.liberty.edu
  7. ↑ Silver Stars Name Olaf Lange Coordinator Of Video Services And Player Development . In: NBA.com . ( wnba.com [accessed January 20, 2017]).
  8. ^ Olaf brings experience to Thunder . In: The Reporter . ( com.au [accessed January 20, 2017]).
  9. ↑ UMMC Put Lange, Brondello In Charge | FIBA Europe. Retrieved January 20, 2017 .
  10. ↑ BC UMMC | :: Club :: Team history. Retrieved January 20, 2017 .
  11. ↑ German Olaf Langer appointed head coach for the Russian women's basketball team . In: TASS . ( tass.com [accessed September 20, 2017]).
  12. ↑ https://coach.basketball.net.au/additions-to-opals-coaching-staff-to-contest-2017-fiba-asia-cup/
  13. ↑ http://basket.ugmk.com/ru/news/index.php?id15=21889
  14. ↑ https://tass.com/sport/1071453
  15. ↑ https://sky.wnba.com/news/chicago-sky-hire-olaf-lange-as-assistant-coach/
  16. ↑ Phoenix Mercury coach Sandy Brondello is mom first. Retrieved January 20, 2017 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Long, Olaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin