Stephanie Wagner (basketball player)

Stephanie Wagner
Player information
Full name	Stephanie Verena Wagner
Nickname	Steffi
birthday	8th July 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Karlsruhe , Germany
size	182 cm
position	Small forward , shooting guard , power forward
Club information
society	BC Pharmaserv Marburg
Jersey number	55
Clubs as active
2009-2013	Rhine-Main Baskets
2013-2016	TSV Wasserburg
2016-2017	Rutronik Stars pressing
2017 – today	BC Pharmaserv Marburg
National team
2011 – today	Germany	91 games

Stephanie Wagner (born July 8, 1990 in Karlsruhe ) is a German national basketball player . With her height of 1.82 m, she can be used flexibly and therefore plays in the positions of small forward , shooting guard and power forward .

Life

Stephanie Wagner was born on July 8, 1990 (the day Germany became world champions ). Stephanie, just called Steffi by most, was born in Karlsruhe, but grew up in Langen (Hessen) . She comes from a sports-loving family. Her mother played volleyball and jazz dance, her father played soccer and table tennis and her brother, Michael Wagner, currently plays handball for TV Büttelborn.

Wagner himself came to basketball relatively late and was previously active in athletics. To this day, she has successfully passed the sports badge every year without interruption.

In addition to sport, she is studying industrial engineering . She successfully completed her bachelor's degree in 2016 at the TU Darmstadt and then started her master’s course at KIT in Karlsruhe.

Basketball career

Stephanie Wagner was spotted at a school group in the 5th grade and started her basketball career at TV Langen . With the school team of the Dreieichschule, she regularly took part in state and federal decisions and was multiple national winner at the finals in Berlin.

With her hometown club she became German champion in the age group u18 in 2007. In the 2009/10 season she gained her first experience in the 1st Bundesliga with the cooperation club, the Rhein-Main Baskets . The greatest success with this team was reaching the finals in 2013.

Stephanie moved to TSV Wasserburg in 2013 . There she played from 2013 to 2016 and won the double (championship and cup) in all three years. She then played for the Rutronik Stars Keltern for the 2016/17 season. With these two teams, Stephanie also gained international experience in the Eurocup.

In the summer of 2017 she moved to BC Pharmaserv Marburg and is still active there in the 1st basketball league and in the CEWL Cup.

National team

In addition to her national career, Stephanie was also active internationally from an early age. She took part in 4 European youth championships and was part of the women's national team for the first time in 2011 . She played her first game in the national jersey on May 13, 2011 and took part in the European Championship in Poland that same summer, the biggest success of a women's national team since then. Wagner is still a member of the senior national team and has played a total of 91 international matches (as of 2019).

Greatest successes

2007 German champion with the U18 of TV Langen

2011 participation in the European championship with the women's national team

2014/15/16 3 × double winner with TSV Wasserburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stephanie Wagner. German Basketball Association, accessed on July 16, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Men 1 - Turnverein 1888 Büttelborn eV Accessed on July 16, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Position 1. Accessed July 16, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Stephanie Wagner |. Retrieved on July 16, 2020 (German). 
5. ↑ Stephanie Wagner |. Retrieved on July 16, 2020 (German). 
6. ↑ Basketball Department. In: TSV 1880 Wasserburg e. V. Accessed on July 16, 2020 (German). 
7. ↑ Stephanie Wagner becomes a star - Rutronik Stars Keltern - Basketball 1st Bundesliga. Retrieved July 16, 2020 . 
8. ↑ "EuroCup - sounds good" - Rutronik Stars present themselves on the European stage - Sport - Pforzheimer-Zeitung. Retrieved July 16, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Stephanie Wagner. Retrieved on July 16, 2020 (German).