Peter Cole (basketball player)

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Peter Cole (* 1960 ) is a former American - German basketball player .

Life

Cole, who comes from the city of Medford (US state of Massachusetts ), attended the Tabor Academy in the same state as a student and played basketball there, later the approximately two-meter-tall wing and inside player belonged to the team of the University of Vermont . In his final season 1982/83, Cole scored an average of 13.2 points and 9.1 rebounds per encounter in 29 games. He went down in the history book of the university team as the player who had the highest value for the field throw rate (namely 61.1 percent). Cole's record remained in place decades after he left in 1983.

Cole became a professional basketball player and played in Germany for VfL Jahn Bamberg, in 1985 he moved within the city to Bundesliga club FC Bamberg , for whom he scored a total of 267 points in the 1985/86 season. He initially only stayed with the Bundesliga club for a year, but returned to the team in 1988, which had meanwhile been renamed TTL Bamberg. In the 1988/89 season he was the Bamberg team's third-best scorer behind Donald Pettis and Vernon Fitzpatrick .

In 1995 he rose to the basketball league with TG Landshut , but missed relegation in the top German league with the Niederbayern in the subsequent Bundesliga season 1995/96. During the second division season 1996/97, the Landshut team was withdrawn and Cole moved to Bayern Munich .

After his professional career, Cole worked full-time as an English teacher, holding courses in Germany, Hungary and Japan , among other things, and from 2008 to 2014 he was also head of the English department at the EBS University of Economics and Law in Oestrich-Winkel . With the club GoSmile Uganda he sat from 2009 on education issues in Uganda one. In 2017, Cole taught in the United States at Blue Ridge School, Virginia  , and also became the head of the school's tennis team.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ https://static.uvmathletics.com/custompages/MensBasketball/1981-82/1981-82%20MBB%20Roster.pdf
  2. ↑ Peter Cole College Stats. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
  3. ↑ http://uvmathletics.com/documents/2019/6/21//MBBRecordBook.pdf?id=3786
  4. ^ Archive season 1985/86 GHP Bamberg. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
  5. ^ Archive season 1988/89 GHP Bamberg. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
  6. ↑ 1994 - 1997: City of Landshut. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Peter Cole | Faculty / Staff member, Blue Ridge School. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Cole, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH 1960