SC Potsdam
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| Surname | Sportclub Potsdam e. V. |
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| Club colors | Red White |
| Founded | February 8, 1961 |
| Association headquarters | Potsdam |
| Members | 4,000 |
| Departments | 9 |
| Homepage | sc-potsdam.de |
The SC Potsdam is the largest sports club in the country Brandenburg . More than 4,000 members are active in its nine departments. The main focus of the SC Potsdam is the popular sport . This division, which is also the largest, has 1,400 active people who train in 97 sports groups. SC Potsdam is also established in top-class sport. There have been and are significant successes u. a. in the women's first volleyball league , in athletics and in bobsleigh. In addition, SC Potsdam is also involved in the social field. With its “Junior” children's club and the “OffLine” youth club, the association operates two popular meeting places for children and young people that are established in Potsdam. SC Potsdam is located in a multifunctional club building in the Kirchsteigfeld residential area , which the SC moved into in 2011. This is also where the youth club is located.
Torsten K. Bork has been president of the sports club since 2006.
Elite sport
Numerous nationally and internationally known athletes train at SC Potsdam. The bobsleigh athletes, the Bundesliga volleyball players, the track and field athletes and the Paralympic swimmers have achieved considerable success.
volleyball
SC Potsdam has a women's team in the 1st Bundesliga and one in the regional league. The Potsdam women have been playing in the elite league since their promotion in 2009 and are firmly established there. The venue until December 2011 was the sports hall on Heinrich-Mann-Allee. The home games have been played in the MBS Arena Potsdam at the Luftschiffhafen since January 2012 . The modern hall, completed in 2012, offers space for 2,000 spectators. The team's budget for the current season (2013/2014) is 600,000 euros. Alberto Salomoni has been the head coach since 2011 .
The second team of SC Potsdam playing in the regional league is the junior team. She is also the hinge between the youth department and the Bundesliga team. This means that SC Potsdam now has a seamless training chain and can bring its talents directly up to the level of the Bundesliga itself.
| Placement in the 1st Bundesliga volleyball (DVL) | |||
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| season | space | Play-offs | Trainer |
| 2009/2010 | 10th place | Michael Merten | |
| 2010/2011 | 10th place | Michael Merten / Volker Knedel | |
| 2011/2012 | 11th place | Alberto Salomoni | |
| 2012/2013 | 8th place | Quarter finals | Alberto Salomoni |
| 2013/2014 | 6th place | Quarter finals | Alberto Salomoni |
| 2014/2015 | 5th place | Quarter finals | Alberto Salomoni |
Bobsleigh
SC Potsdam has produced numerous international bobsleigh athletes. The association has had its own department since 2000. Initially, the focus was on the athletic training of pushers on their own bobsleigh runway in the airship port. One of them was the 2002 Olympic champion in the four-man bobsleigh, Carsten Embach . The most successful winter sportsman in the state of Brandenburg is the multiple Olympic, world and European champion Kevin Kuske , who was previously a track and field athlete at SC Potsdam. The bobsleigh team also includes the 2011 four-man bobsleigh world champions Manuel Machata (pilot) as well as Christian Poser and Christian Schmacht. In the past 2012/2013 season, Machata came third in the overall World Cup ranking in both the two-man bobsleigh and four-man bobsleigh. With a view to the 2014 Winter Olympics , the Potsdam team wants to assert itself among the three best German bobsleigh teams.
So far, the youngsters have been able to convince with titles and medals at the Junior World Championships, including Gino Gerhardi, Peter and Rene Tifert, Sascha Schelter, Stephanie Schneider and Tino Paasche. With Petra Lammert , a former athlete began training as a push-puller and was runner-up in 2012.
With the "Potsdam Push School" an important base has been created for athletes from different sports. The coaches are Jörg Weber (coach of the Olympic training center Bob) and Heinz Rieger from Potsdam. SC Potsdam trains on the push track and in the facilities in the Sportpark Luftschiffhafen. There is also a good and close cooperation with BSR Oberhof , on whose facility the track training is completed.
athletics
Athletics played an important role at SC Potsdam from the start . With over 700 athletes, it is an important department in the club. After the merger with the LG Potsdam (previously OSC Potsdam-Luftschiffhafen eV) in 1999 there was a significant increase in performance, since then athletes from SC Potsdam have been represented at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships.
A lot of attention is paid to the area of young talent, which also achieved a number of successes. The athletes can use the Potsdam airship port stadium and a hall with a 200-meter running track. The federal base is also located there.
Within the DLV, the Potsdam athletes occupy a top position. In 2010 the A youth team became German champions in the decathlon. The female A-youth U-16 also succeeded in 2011 and 2012.
SC Potsdam had and has numerous internationally successful athletes in its own ranks: Thomas Schneider (400 m), until December 2011; Claudia Grunwald (400 m), Melanie Seeger (20 km walking); Antje Möldner-Schmidt (3000 m obstacle), until December 2011; Christopher Linke (20 and 50 km walking) and Markus Münch (discus throw). Thomas Schneider from Paris returned from the European Indoor Championships in 2011 with the silver medal over 400 meters. In April / May 2011 Melanie Seeger (20 km) and Christopher Linke (20 and 50 km walking) met the World Cup standards. Thomas Schneider, Claudia Grunwald, Melanie Seeger and Christopher Linke were nominated by the DLV for the 2011 World Championships and took part there. Christopher Linke (50 km walking) and Melanie Seeger (20 km walking) started at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
The youngsters also draw attention to themselves again and again: Sarah Mayer won the U-23 European javelin throwing title in 2011, Hagen Pohle won the U-20 European title over 10,000 meters in the track and Laura Henkel (U-23) made it with the javelin Bronze.
Popular sport
The popular sports department is the largest of the association with over 1,300 members. Their offers are aimed at children, young people, adults and senior citizens. They are guided and looked after by specialized trainers. Even toddlers from 2.5 years of age are encouraged to exercise.
Health sport
To support health, there are u. a. Courses for aqua fitness, aqua jogging, swimming, back training, Nordic walking, gymnastics, water aerobics, yoga and Pilates.
Disabled sports
The disabled sports has a central position in the club. Around 500 people with disabilities at SC Potsdam use the opportunity to be physically active with others on a regular basis. They are professionally instructed and medically cared for. The disabled sports department is a member of the Brandenburg Disabled Sports Association .
successes
The goalballers became German champions in 2004 and athlete Matthias Schmidt became German champions over 200 meters for the visually impaired in 2006. For the first time, Martina Willing (LA / Diskus + Kugel), André Lehmann and Torben Schmidtke (swimming) took part in the 2012 Paralympic Summer Games in London. Here Schmidtke won the silver medal in the 100 meter chest and Willing the bronze medal in the discus throw. With the ball she took 4th place. Since 2011, the swimming performance base has also been represented at the “Friedrich Ludwig Jahn” sports school in Potsdam .
Social work
The association is also a recognized sponsor of free youth welfare. As the operator of the youth club “Off Line” and the children's club “Junior”, SC Potsdam assumes social responsibility.
The catchment areas are the Potsdam residential areas “Kirchsteigfeld”, “Drewitz” and “Am Stern”. These are considered to be the social hot spots of the city with high unemployment and a high proportion of single parents. Children's and youth clubs with their free offers are aimed primarily at children from socially disadvantaged families in order to improve their equal opportunities. Both facilities have many sports and activities on offer. In this way, they enable continuous, multi-year educational care from childhood to adolescence.
- Children's club "Junior": open leisure time club for children aged 6 to 13 years
- Youth club "Off Line": Club for 12 to 27 year olds
Club history
The Potsdam Sports Club was founded on January 1st, 1961 in what was then the district capital. With the club, the performance of GDR sport was to be further developed with a view to the Olympic Games in 1964 and 1968. The focus was initially on football, canoeing and athletics. In 1966 the football section was incorporated into BSG Motor Babelsberg. At the end of August 1969, the club was dissolved, the squad athletes mostly continued to train at ASK Vorwärts Potsdam .
On December 12, 1994, SC Potsdam was founded as an e. V. re-established. Within a short period of time, the SC developed into one of the most important multi-branch clubs in the state of Brandenburg . With currently over 3,500 members in its nine departments, it is currently the largest sports club in Brandenburg. There are currently around 30 sports available for all age groups.
literature
- Hardy Greens : SC Potsdam. In: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 7: Club Lexicon . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-147-9 .
Web links
- Homepage of the association
- Homepage of the volleyball Bundesliga team
- Homepage German Volleyball Association