Ritz Ingram

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Lauritz Raymond "Ritz" Ingram (born July 17, 1950 in Philadelphia ) is an American basketball coach .

Life

Ingram attended Olney High School in the US state of Pennsylvania and studied American history at Hofstra University in New York from 1968 to 1973 , while he also served as assistant coach of Hofstra 's college basketball team in the 1972/73 season. He then worked in the USA as a basketball coach at schools (Cold Spring Harbor High School in New York State and Grace Lutheran School). He came to the German city of Fulda as a soldier in the US armed forces in 1977 and was stationed there until 1986. During this time he was also active as a basketball coach in Fulda, and one of his protégés was the later Bundesliga player Detlef Musch . Ingram temporarily ran a sportswear shop in Fulda, but had to close it again due to insufficient income.

Ingram worked as a basketball trainer for the women's Bundesliga club TSV Weilheim in 1989/90 and then initially back in his home country. From 1990 to 1992 he was an assistant coach on the staff of the men's team at Davidson College , then worked in the 1992/93 season as head coach at the George School in the city of Newtown in the state of Pennsylvania , from 1993 to 1997 he supervised the women of the university of North Carolina at Asheville also as head coach. He returned to Germany and from May 1997 worked at the DJK Würzburg as head coach of the Bundesliga women as well as in the girls' division. He was also involved in the training work of the Würzburg men, at that time also with Dirk Nowitzki , Robert Garrett and Demond Greene .

In 1999 Ingram moved from Würzburg to TSV Quakenbrück . He was assistant to head coach Chris Fleming at the then second division team . In 2001 he worked as a trainer at the ASC Theresianum Mainz and from the end of 2001 to the end of the 2001/02 season at ART Düsseldorf . From the 2002/03 season he was employed again in Quakenbrück and contributed as an assistant coach to the promotion to the Bundesliga, which achieved 30 wins from 30 second division games in the 2002/2003 season. Ingram was then also Fleming's assistant in the Bundesliga. He held this post until 2004, he also worked in Quakenbrück in the youth sector and from 2005 as the head coach of the women, whom he led in 2007 for promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga. For the 2008/09 season he moved as head coach to the women's Bundesliga club BBV Leipzig . In addition, he was also active in youth work in Leipzig. After he was unable to prevent the Leipzig women from being relegated from the Bundesliga in the 2009/10 season, Ingram and the club separated at the end of March 2010.

Ingram took up a full-time coaching position at FT Fulda in 2010, and in the 2016/17 season he also coached the women's second division team Bender Baskets Grünberg . Ingram's book Der Trainer ist Schuld , in which he describes his life story, was published in February 2018 . He resigned his office at FT Fulda in June 2018 and returned to the United States.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Ritz Ingram, Ritz Ingram: It's The Coach'S Fault - Free Novel by Ritz Ingram. January 22, 2018, accessed April 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Ritz Ingram, Ritz Ingram: It's The Coach'S Fault - Free Novel by Ritz Ingram. January 22, 2018, accessed April 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b https://de.linkedin.com/in/ritz-ingram-3a25b5b0
  4. ↑ a b FOCUS Online: Fulda: Lauritz Ingram - more than just a coach. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b c Ritz Ingram, Ritz Ingram: It's The Coach'S Fault - Free Novel by Ritz Ingram. January 22, 2018, accessed April 5, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b MOKOM 01 GmbH & Co KG: History - Artland Dragons. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  7. ^ Table of contents Rhein-Main-Zeitung of January 3rd, 2002, page 1. Retrieved on April 5, 2020 .
  8. ↑ : No grudge against "Magics". Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  9. ↑ http://www.schoenen-dunk.de/news_a26331_Artland-Dragons_Dodson-wechselelt-nach-Quakenbrueck.htm
  10. ↑ BBVL and trainer Ritz Ingram split up. March 25, 2010, accessed on April 5, 2020 (German).
  11. ↑ Ritz Ingram new trainer of the Bender Baskets Grünberg. June 9, 2016, accessed April 5, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung | Kojic is the new trainer of the Bender Baskets. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  13. ↑ The trainer is to blame - Lauritz Raymond Ingram (book) - jpc. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Lauritz Ingram suddenly leaves FT Fulda for the second time - update. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Ingram, Ritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ingram, Lauritz Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball coach
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia