Sidney Parsons
Sidney Marie Parsons (born December 5, 1987 in Mesa ) is an American - German basketball coach and former player.
career
Player
Parsons grew up in the US state of Arizona and played at the Hamilton High School in the city of Chandler , in 2018 she was inducted into the "Hall of Fame" of the town. Her mother was born in Altmannstein in Bavaria . From 2006 to 2019, Parsons was a member of the University of Bridgeport 's college basketball team , and she also studied social sciences .
Parsons began her career as a professional basketball player at the German Bundesliga club ChemCats Chemnitz , for whom she played from the beginning of the 2010/11 season until December 2011 and then moved to the second division Grüner Stern Keltern at the end of 2011 . From 2012 to 2014, the 1.68 meter tall player was in the service of TSV Viernheim (2nd Bundesliga), then played for the Logan Thunder team in Australia in the 2014 spring season , before joining the Nördlinger first division club in the run-up to the 2014/15 season BG Donau-Ries went. Between her two years in Nördlingen, Parsons played again in Australia in 2015 for Logan Thunder in the state of Queensland .
In 2016 Parsons left Nördlingen and then played in the spring seasons 2016 and 2017 for the South West Metro Pirates in Australia. In the 2016 game year she was the top scorer in the Queensland Basketball League (QBL) with an average of 26.8 points per match.
trainer
During her time as a player, Parsons was also employed as a coach at her respective clubs, primarily in the youth sector, in Nördlingen she coached the team in the female youth basketball league (WNBL) for two years . In August 2018 she was hired as head coach of the German Bundesliga club TSV Wasserburg and led the TSV women to third place in the Bundesliga in their first year in office. In addition to her club activities in Wasserburg, she worked temporarily as an assistant trainer for the German women's national team. In the 2019/20 season, she was second in the table with Wasserburg when the game year was canceled in March 2020 due to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.basketball-wasserburg.de/damen-i/mannschaft/profil/profil/damen-i-8/sidney-marie-parsons.html
- ↑ Greg Macafee, Tribune Sports Editor: 7 athletes, one coach joining Chandler Sports Hall of Fame . In: East Valley Tribune . ( eastvalleytribune.com [accessed August 29, 2018]).
- ↑ Women's Basketball Bundesliga - New coaching team: Parsons and Kollarovics. Retrieved August 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Sidney Parsons Signs Pro Contract To Play Baketball In Germany . In: Bridgeport . June 4, 2010 ( ubknights.com [accessed August 29, 2018]).
- ↑ https://www.ovb-online.de/sport/regionalsport/aibling-verliert-1537690.html
- ^ Kurt Wittmann: From Viernheim via Australia to Nördlingen . In: Augsburger Allgemeine . ( augsburger-allgemeine.de [accessed on August 29, 2018]).
- ↑ 2016 QBL End of Season Awards - Basketball QLD: QBL . In: Basketball QLD: QBL . August 26, 2016 ( com.au [accessed August 29, 2018]).
- ↑ Renate Drax: The new trainer: Sidney Parsons! • Wasserburg voice - basketball women of TSV Wasserburg: Corina Kollarovics will be co-coach . In: Wasserburger Voice . August 3, 2018 ( wasserburger-stimme.de [accessed August 29, 2018]).
- ↑ Report in the mobile portal on heimatzeitung.de . In: heimatzeitung.de . ( heimatzeitung.de [accessed on August 29, 2018]).
- ↑ Women's Basketball Bundesliga - TSV 1880 Wasserburg secures bronze medal. Retrieved May 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Unger nominates DBB women. German Basketball Association, accessed on May 25, 2019 .
- ↑ 1st Bundesliga. In: Women's Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved on March 22, 2020 (German).
- ↑ We say softly servus. In: Women's Basketball Bundesliga. March 13, 2020, accessed on March 22, 2020 (German).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Parsons, Sidney |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Parsons, Sidney Marie (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German basketball trainer and player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th December 1987 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mesa |