Science City Jena

Science City Jena
Founded	1993 TuS Jena 2007 Baskets Jena GmbH 2011 Science City Jena e. V.
Hall	Sparkassen-Arena (3,076 seats)
Homepage	www.baskets-jena.de
executive Director	Lars Eberlein
president	Dietmar Bendix
Trainer	Frank Menz
league	ProA Men ProA 2019/20 : 3rd place
	NBBL U19
	JBBL U16
Colours	Blue / Orange / White
successes
Champion 2nd Basketball Bundesliga South: 2007 Champion ProA : 2016

Science City Jena is a German basketball club from Jena in Thuringia . While the professional team has been running under the name Science City Jena since 2007, the club was only founded in 2011 as a reaction to the insolvency of the previous parent club TuS Jena . With over 300 active athletes, the club is one of the 50 largest basketball clubs in Germany and the largest in Central Germany .

After the Central German Basketball Club , in 2007 Jena was only the second team from the new federal states to be promoted to the basketball league . With 41st place in the all-time Bundesliga table, Jena is also the second most successful club in the new federal states in the history of the Bundesliga.

history

Beginnings of basketball in Jena (1912–1993)

As early as 1912 at the “1. Patriotic Gymnastics and Games Festival ”, basketball, a sport similar to basketball , was practiced in Jena . Actual basketball has been played in Jena since 1938 at the latest, when a selection from the Jena University for Teacher Education took part in the German Gymnastics and Sports Festival . In 1939, Karl Feige , director of the Institute for Physical Exercise at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , explicitly named basketball venues that were set up in Jenau. 1940 came a Jena basketball selection at the university championships and was sixth.

After the Second World War , basketball was part of the teaching concept at the university and a “basketball set” was still available at the university. Basketball was accordingly taught in sports teacher training. But it was only Wolfgang Hercher , one of the first sports students at the University of Jena and trainer of the women's national basketball team in 1952 , who founded the university 's basketball department in 1951 with several former members of the handball and volleyball departments. In 1953 , the HSG Uni Jena was a founding member of the Oberliga , the top division of the GDR , and it was possible to take third place in the championship. Though the people of Saale still managed to place three fourths, most recently in 1981, after the SED leadership decided in 1969 to discontinue financial support for basketball in competitive sports, they could no longer compete with the Leipzig, Halle or Berlin locations. It was only towards the end of the GDR that at least the women's team at the university was able to achieve good results at the German championships again. Jena was the founding place of the Thuringian Basketball Association in 1990 .

Foundation at TuS Jena (1993–2007)

In 1993, the sport of basketball was newly adopted at TuS Jena and a separate department was founded. The players came from Carl Zeiss Süd and in the youth area from USV Jena . As early as 1995, the club rose to the Regionalliga Südost , the third highest German division at the time. At the end of the 2000/01 season, under coach Carl Woodard, he was promoted to the southern season of the 2nd basketball division with 19 wins from 22 games. In the first year , the club reached 12th place in the table under the new coach Dan Palmer . In the 2002/2003 season , the club took on the name of a sponsor and competed as TuS Jena erdgas baskets . The ex-coach of the Central German BC , Frank Menz , was signed up as the new coach and they achieved an unexpected 4th place. In the following season (now as erdgas baskets Jena ) the team landed in the final account in 8th place, a year later in 5th place. On January 1, 2005, Baskets Jena GmbH started its business activities. The first managing director was Steffen Hausdörfer . During the summer break of 2006, a new name sponsor was found in the fitness company Planet of Motion (POM). The best result of the season up to this point was achieved with a second place in the 2005/06 season . On April 21, 2007, the POM baskets Jena with the then 24-year-old coach Björn Harmsen surprisingly became champions of the 2nd Bundesliga South and were promoted to the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL).

Promotion ceremony 06/07 in Kaiserslautern

Established as Science City Jena (2007-2016)

Since September 7, 2007, the professional team has been running as Science City Jena after a name sponsor was found in the city of Jena. The name alludes to the title of "City of Science" for which Jena had applied and which the city was awarded in 2008. As a result, Jena was able to meet the economic conditions for a Bundesliga license and start the first Bundesliga season with a budget of just under 1.2 million euros . The season started unpromisingly: after just three games of the season, Adrian Moss and Al Elliott had to part ways because of “behavior that was damaging to the club” after both players caused a traffic accident after a party. After only two wins from 19 games, Björn Harmsen , who had been the youngest Bundesliga coach of all time, was dismissed and replaced by Sean McCaw , who was active as a player immediately before. After one year of membership in the BBL, the club ultimately rose from bottom of the table with just five wins. Participation in the procedure for issuing a wildcard from the BBL for the 2008/09 season was excluded because the club was not granted a license. The reasons for this were the lack of athletic qualifications and the poor economic performance. After initially the license for the ProA was not granted either, participation was secured in the second attempt.

The years after relegation were marked by a financial and sporting consolidation of the club. After the end of the 2008/09 season , Lars Eberlein became the new commercial director of Baskets Jena GmbH. In the following season they cooperated with the Bundesliga club Mitteldeutscher BC , which allowed some players to compete in both the ProA and the Bundesliga by means of a double license . In 2011 the pure basketball club Science City Jena e. V., who after the insolvency of the previous parent club TuS Jena is now responsible for the organization of youth teams and popular sports. Shortly afterwards, a cooperation agreement was officially signed between the newly founded single-branch association and Baskets Jena GmbH. Although they still played against relegation to ProB in 2011 , Science City has been able to qualify for the ProA play-offs for four years in a row since the introduction of the play-off rule in the 2011/12 season , but always missed promotion. In the 2015/16 season , Jena finally won the championship title in the 2nd Bundesliga ProA under the leadership of head coach Björn Harmsen, who has coached the team again since 2013, and returned to the Bundesliga. Harmsen was named Coach of the Year at the end of the season.

Return to the Bundesliga (2016-2019)

The first first division season in almost ten years started unhappily and in the first eight games the Jenensians could only record two wins. After that, the team's performance stabilized and for a short time they even kept track of the play-off places. Although the play-offs were ultimately missed, the club's first relegation was achieved early on on the 26th matchday and the license for the following season was issued without any conditions.

With the newcomer Derrick Allen and the remaining veterans Julius Jenkins and Immanuel McElroy , three players over 36 years of age were in the squad in the following season, which is why the team was sometimes corrupted as an "oldie troop". During the season, the club announced that Björn Harmsen was receiving a permanent contract, which was commented on as unusual in professional sport. Five game days before the end of the main round, Jena again managed to stay early. The last game of the season created a special drama: Jena received the Rockets in the Thuringia derby , who could only have made it through a victory. Jena won the game 85:81 and the Rockets were relegated. At the end of the season they finished 13th, as in the previous season, but the 14 wins meant the Thuringians' best season result in the basketball league so far.

Also in the third first division season in a row they went with the goal of securing relegation. Due to the increase in the minimum budget required by the league from the following season , work was also done to improve the financial framework. At the beginning of the season, the people from Saalstadt had the oldest squad in the league with an average age of 27.4 years. Despite a defeat on the first match day against runner-up Alba Berlin 112: 55, the fourth-highest in Bundesliga history, Science City managed the most successful Bundesliga start in the club's history with three wins from the first six league games. In the reformed BBL Cup too , after a “cup sensation”, a victory over EWE Baskets Oldenburg , they made it to the quarter-finals. This was followed, however, with eleven defeats in a row across all competitions, the longest series of defeats the club has ever recorded in the BBL. The reasons given were persistent injury problems, a bank that was not filled enough, and new signings that were not taken. After managing director Lars Eberlein initially ruled out a change of coach, coach Harmsen had to relinquish his position to his assistant Marius Linartas in April 2019 after an ongoing series of defeats  . Nevertheless, Jena, which suffered 15 defeats in a row in the final phase of the season, missed staying in the top German division.

Realignment in the ProA (since 2019)

After managing director Eberlein initially ruled out the acquisition of a wildcard during the season , which would mean remaining in the BBL despite sporting relegation, interest in acquiring it was expressed after the main round. The background was the non-issue of the Bundesliga license to the sporting climber Nürnberg Falcons , which left a place in the league free. In July 2019, the club announced that it did not want to acquire a wildcard and compete in the ProA . The ProA license was granted unconditionally. Frank Menz , who already acted as coach from 2002 to 2006, took over the team in two roles as head coach and sports director . He signed a four-year contract. The goal of the season was to participate in the play-offs, and an immediate rise was subordinated to the development of young players. In January 2020 it was announced that Menz would take a break of several weeks after the death of his wife Birgit Menz . As a result, his assistant coach Steven Clauss temporarily took over the team. In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany , the ProA season ended early in mid-March, shortly before the end of the main round. At that time, Jena was third in the table.

Name and logo history

• 1994–2002: TuS Jena
• 2002–2003: TuS Jena erdgas baskets
• 2003–2006: Erdgas Baskets Jena
• 2006–2007: POM baskets Jena
• since 2007: Science City Jena

The logo of Science City Jena is a stylized silhouette of JenTower , a symbol of the city, as well as a basketball , in which motion lines suggest movement. In 2019, the logo was revised as part of the introduction of a corporate design .

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  Logo from 2007 to 2019

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  Revised logo since 2019

Squad

Squad 2020/21

Squad of Science City Jena in the 2020/2021 season

player No. Nat. Surname birth size info Last club Guards ( PG , SG ) 2 Dennis Nawrocki December 8, 1992 1.93 Basketball Löwen Braunschweig 3 Jan-Philipp Becker 05/09/2000 1.86 DL own offspring 24 Matthew Vest 09/17/1992 1.95 Niners Chemnitz 33 Jan Heber 11/14/1998 1.84 own offspring 44 Vuk Radojičić 06/29/2001 1.85 DL  KK Borac Čačak Forwards ( SF , PF ) 1 Kavin Gilder-Tilbury 05/19/1994 2.01  BC Luleå 10 Julius Wolf 01/26/1993 2.01 FC Bayern Munich 12 Melvin Jostmann 07/12/2000 1.98 DL Paderborn Baskets 17th Joschka Ferner 01/05/1996 2.00 Crailsheim Merlins 19th Justin Leon 07/29/1995 2.03  Oklahoma City Blue 22nd Dominik Schusel 06/15/1999 2.01 DL Nuremberg Falcons BC 25th Lorenz Bank 04/06/2001 1.95 DL own offspring Stephan Haukohl 06/27/1993 2.05 Nuremberg Falcons BC Center ( C ) 41 Alex Herrera 08/15/1992 2.06 Phoenix Hagen Robin Lodders 11/30/1994 2.05 Niners Chemnitz

Trainer Nat. Surname position Frank Menz Head coach / Steven Clauss Assistant coach Marius Linartas Assistant coach Legend Abbr. meaning Team captain DL Double license swell Team homepage League homepage As of August 18, 2020

Entries and exits in 2020/21

Accesses	Departures
Before the start of the season
Stephan Haukohl ( Nuremberg Falcons BC ) Robin Lodders ( Niners Chemnitz )	Brad Loesing ( Rostock Seawolves ) Ermen Reyes-Napoles ( Retired ) Kamau Stokes ( Norrköping Dolphins )  Lars Lagerpusch ( Wiha Panthers Schwenningen ) Oliver Mackeldanz ( Red Dragons Königs Wusterhausen )

Members and fans

Development of the number of members

With 336 active members, Science City Jena is one of the 50 largest basketball clubs in Germany. This number refers exclusively to members with a participant ID who take part in gaming operations and not to passive memberships. This makes the club the largest basketball club in Thuringia and the second largest basketball club in the new federal states after the EBC Rostock .

Over time, there were some fan groups that acted as official fan clubs . In 2003 the D-Fans Jena e. V. founded as the first organized fan group. In 2008 the association dissolved. Since 2007 there was another group consisting of parts of the Fanclub D-Fans Jena e. V. emerged, the jump ball Ultras Jena. After a dispute between the fan club and the club management, in which the fans accused the club of, among other things, poor communication, the organization disbanded in early 2015. The JenensAir fan group has been an official fan club since 2016. The Baseline Crew fan group was created during the same period.

More teams

2nd men's team (Culture City Weimar)

Until 2005 the second team of TuS Jena played in the 1st Regionalliga Südost . After relegation in the 2004/05 season they played (except for the 2007/08 season, in which they were promoted and immediately relegated) continuously in the 2nd Regionalliga Südost. In 2011, following the insolvency of the previous parent association, the name of the new Science City Jena association was adopted . In 2016 he was finally promoted again to the 1st regional league. In the 2018/19 season, the team played a home game in neighboring Weimar for the first time , after which it was announced that all home games of the following season would take place there. Since then, the team has been competing under the name Culture City Weimar , a cooperation between Baskets Jena GmbH, HSV Weimar and KSSV Victoria Weimar . According to sports director Frank Menz , the goal is for the team to move up to the ProB .

Women's team

The women's team of TuS Jena became champions of the regional league in 2003 and was promoted to the 2nd women's basketball league . The team's top performers were the former national player Birgit Menz and her daughter Tina . From 2005 they played under the name TuS Ladybaskets Jena after a change of main sponsor . After relegation in 2011 and the dissolution of the parent club TuS Jena, there was no longer a senior women's team in the club. It wasn't until 2014 that a women's team appeared again in the league for the first time, this time under the name Science City Jena.

Young talent concept

A training program has been developed with the Jena GutsMuths Sports High School and the TuS Jena , so that there are always young German players in the team. In December 2011, the former head of the basketball department at TuS Jena and Baskets Jena GmbH founded Science City Jena e. V. was founded and the training concept continued because TuS Jena had to file for bankruptcy.

Since the beginning of the youth basketball league in the 2006/07 season , Jena has provided a team in the U19 age group under the name Funkwerk Junior Baskets Jena . Also since the beginning of the youth basketball league in the 2009/10 season, Jena has provided a U-16 team under the name PlanOrg Junior Baskets Jena . Since summer 2010, both teams have been playing under the name of the ProA team. Thus, the Funkwerk Junior Baskets Jena became Science City Funkwerk Baskets Jena and the PlanOrg Junior Baskets Jena became Science City PlanOrg Baskets Jena . Since the 2012/13 season, all teams have been playing as Science City Jena . In the period from 2017 to 2020, the club's junior program was certified every year by the BBL with the third highest award, a ball . In 2019 Jena organized the NBBL and JBBL's TOP 4 tournament for the first time . At this tournament, the JBBL team also recorded the greatest success in the club's history with the runner-up.

Since 2017, two teams have been represented in the newly founded Mitteldeutsche Liga Basketball , a joint project of the Thuringian Basketball Association and the basketball associations of Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt , in the age groups U14 and U12. A team (supported by players from BiG Gotha ) has been competing in the European Youth Basketball League since 2018 .

E-sports

Since 2019 the association maintains an e-sport sub-class, which in the game NBA 2K compete.

Venue

Average audience

season	league	Total (home games)	cut	capacity	workload	source
2007/08	BBL	38,522 (17)	2,266	3,000	75.5%
2014/15	ProA	35,022 (17)	2,060	2,750	74.9%
2015/16	ProA	48,800 (20)	2,440	2,750	88.7%
2016/17	BBL	41,842 (16)	2,615	3,076	85.0%
2017/18	BBL	42,867 (17)	2,522	3,076	82.0%
2018/19	BBL	40,958 (17)	2,409	3,076	78.3%
2019/20	ProA	30,964 (15)	2,064	3.125	66.0%

Sparkassen-Arena 2016

Until 2007, the Science City Jena team played their home games in the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle in Jena- Neulobeda . After being promoted to the basketball league , the team needed a new venue because the previous hall did not meet the requirements of the league. This required a hall capacity of 3000 spectators. As a temporary solution for the first Bundesliga season, the "JenArena" was built, a lightweight hall for 3000 spectators, which was built on the site of the former name sponsor Planet of Motion. After they could not agree on a permanent new building in the following years, they played in the hall even after relegation in 2008, before returning to the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle in 2009. In 2012, the "tent" was sold to ProA newcomer BiG Gotha .

A long-term indoor solution that also met the requirements of the Bundesliga was discussed without result for several years. In 2010, the first plans for a new building in Jena- Burgau finally began , which was officially decided in 2012 and the construction of which began in December of the same year. In 2013, Sparkasse Jena-Saale-Holzland secured the naming rights to the new hall for 10 years, which should also be used for events such as concerts or trade fairs. The Sparkassen-Arena , which offers space for up to 3,076 spectators, was inaugurated in early 2014. Construction work began on additional training halls and a physiotherapy practice on the arena site in 2017.

Well-known former players and coaches

player

The information in brackets indicates the period in which a player was active for the team.

Men's

• Sebastian Machowski (2004)
• / Sean McCaw (2006–2008): Champion 2nd Basketball Bundesliga South 2007
•  Johannes Voigtmann (2010–2012)
•  Georg Voigtmann (2010-2016)
•  Immanuel McElroy (2015-2019): ProA Champion 2016
•  Julius Jenkins (2016-2019)
•  Derrick Allen (2017-2019)

Protected jersey numbers

So far, the club has blocked four shirt numbers that are no longer assigned.

• # 4: Mischa Zlotowski (1996-2010): Champion 2. Basketball Bundesliga South 2007 
• # 6: Alexander Seggelke (2005–2009): Champion 2nd Basketball Bundesliga South 2007
• # 7: Ermen Reyes-Napoles (2001–2020): Champion 2nd Basketball Bundesliga South 2007, ProA Champion 2016; BBL record player for Jena 
• # 31: Guido Grünheid (1997–2000 and 2015–2016): ProA champion 2016, 38 games for the senior national team

Ladies

•  Birgit Menz (née Eggert) (2002–2007): Promotion to the 2nd DBBL 2003, national player for the GDR (24 games) and the Federal Republic of Germany (70 games)
•  Tina Rothämel (née Menz) (2003–2008): 58 games for the senior national team

Trainer (since 1999)

Term of office	Surname
1999-2001	Carl Woodard
2001-2002	Dan Palmer
2002-2006	Frank Menz
2006-02 / 2008	Bjorn Harmsen
02 / 2008-2009	Sean McCaw
2009–12 / 2009	Tino Stump
12 / 2009-2010	Georg Eichler
2010–03 / 2011	Tino Stump
03 / 2011–2013	Georg Eichler
2013-04 / 2019	Bjorn Harmsen
04/2019–05/2019	Marius Linartas
2019–	Frank Menz

Web links

Commons : Science City Jena  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the professional team and Baskets Jena GmbH
• Official website of Science City Jena e. V.
• Home Science City Jena

Individual evidence

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