Phil Ohl

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Basketball player
Phil Ohl
Player information
Full name Philippe Ohl
birthday 7th February 1964
place of birth Iserlohn, Germany
size 201 cm
position Small forward
college CanadaCanada Victoria
Clubs as active
1981–1985 Victoria Vikes ( CIAU ) 1985–1989 VBC PaderbornCanadaCanada
GermanyGermany
National team
1989-1992 Canada

Philippe "Phil" Ohl (born February 7, 1964 in Iserlohn ) is a former Canadian basketball player . After successfully completing his studies, where he and his team won the championship four times in the Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union (CIAU) and was named Most Valuable Player in 1985 , he then played in the German 2nd basketball league at VBC Paderborn before returning to his home country as a national player participant in the 1990 World Cup and the 1992 Olympic qualification , but in which Canada missed the actual participation in the Olympic Games. Ohl later worked as a business coach and university basketball trainer.

Career

Ohl came to the University of Victoria at the age of 17 , where he was also active in the Vikes college team under coach Ken Shields , who led the team to seven consecutive championships from 1980 to 1986. Ohl's teammates included the selection players Eli Pasquale , Gerald Kazanowski and Greg Wiltjer , before Ohl himself was named Most Valuable Player of the final tournament when he won his fourth championship in 1985 in the CIAU . Previously, Ohl had participated with the Canadian junior selection in the Junior World Cup in 1983, in which Canada in the Balearic Islands, however, finished last of the 14 participating teams after only one preliminary round victory.

After Ohl had already completed a teaching degree in Canada, he went to a stay abroad in his native Germany, where he took up further studies at the University of Paderborn . Here he became active with the second division club VBC Paderborn, which according to the regulations at the time was only allowed to use a player without a German passport in championship games. So Ohl replaced the native American Lewis Bryant, who had reached promotion to the 2nd basketball league with the team in the preseason and who stepped down for professional reasons. In the 2nd BBL 1985/86 the Paderborns under coach Martin Krüger reached the top half of the table with Ohl for the first time and already in their second second division season the promotion round to the top division. Except for the 2nd BBL 1988/89 , the promotion round was regularly achieved without the Paderborn being able to achieve the athletic qualification for promotion. After the seventh place in 1989 in a newly created placement round for the four teams placed in the middle of the table, Ohl returned to his homeland Victoria with his later wife from Paderborn.

In the meantime, his university coach Ken Shields had become Canadian national coach and so Ohl played together with his former teammates Pasquale and Kazanowski as well as Leo Rautins among others at the American Championship in 1989 , where the Canadian selection after the narrow quarter-final defeat 73:75 against a US selection of college players still reached fifth place. This place was just enough not to qualify for the 1990 finals in Argentina , where the Canadian selection, which also NBA poker pro Rick Fox , among 16 participants with a twelfth place managed returned after the final game 92:93 against Venezuela lost , the competitor from its own continental association FIBA America . It was also the Venezuelans in the 1992 American Championship , which was held as an Olympic qualification , which prevented the Canadians from participating in the 1992 Olympic basketball tournament in the quarterfinals after their 76:72 success . Without Rick Fox, the participation of Bill Wennington , who later won three NBA championships at the Chicago Bulls with Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen, could n't change anything in the Canadian selection after the dream team with NBA professionals in the preliminary round was already inferior to 61: 105. After missing the Olympic qualification, Ohl was no longer active at the highest level.

Instead, Ohl himself coached basketball teams at Camosun College in Victoria, among others, and built up a career as a management consultant with his company The Leaders Edge . Despite an MS diagnosis Ohl remained active and continued to work among others as assistant coach at his alma mater , which in their athletes Hall of Fame (2015 him english Sports Hall of Fame ) recorded.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Phil Ohl - Owner - The Leader's Edge Consulting. LinkedIn , accessed April 10, 2018 (English, self-presentation on the social network).
  2. ↑ 2010–11 Men's Basketball Coaching Staff. University of Victoria , accessed April 10, 2018 (English, trainer profile).
  3. ↑ Phil Ohl - UVic Sports Hall of Fame 2015. YouTube , April 2, 2015, accessed on April 10, 2018 (English, video from the University of Victoria on the honor).
personal data
SURNAME Ohl, Phil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ohl, Philippe (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH 7th February 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Iserlohn , North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany