Steven Hutchinson

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Steven Hutchinson (born January 17, 1968 in West Berlin ) is a former German-American basketball player. During his professional career, the 2 meter tall winger played for several Bundesliga clubs in Germany.

Career

Hutchinson was born in West Berlin to a German mother and an American father. He first grew up in the USA and moved with his family to Würzburg as a child when his father, a soldier in the US Army, was transferred there. Hutchinson played basketball at an American high school in Germany. He went to the United States to study and played at Umpqua Community College in the state of Oregon and then between 1988 and 1990 for the "Pilots" of the University of Portland . In 1989 and 1990, Hutchinson received the Al C. Giusti Award as the player who best engages and motivates his teammates. In the 88/89 season he was the best rebounder of the "Pilots" (5.4 rebounds per game).

He then returned to Germany and played from 1991 to 1993 for the DJK Würzburg in the 2nd Bundesliga South. Hutchinson then moved to the first division at Steiner Bayreuth and strengthened the team between 1993 and 1997.

This was followed in 1997 by a two-year engagement with another Bundesliga club, the Telekom Baskets Bonn , with whom he became German runner-up in the 1999 season. Then Hutchinson moved to Bayer 04 Leverkusen and moved with the club in its first season (1999/2000) also in the playoff final of the basketball Bundesliga, where they lost to Alba Berlin .

In Leverkusen he was team captain, Hutchinson was described as a "fighting machine" and "rebound king". He stayed in Leverkusen until 2002 and then joined the EWE Baskets Oldenburg , also 1. Bundesliga, for the 2002/03 season . In January 2004, Hutchinson pulled a Achilles tendon in a game against Giessen and then retired.

After the end of his playing career, Hutchinson went to the USA, where he worked for years as a basketball coach at Junction City High School (state of Oregon ). In 2017 he returned to Germany and was employed as a youth coach in Würzburg in the 2017/18 season. At the end of May 2018 he was hired by the second division club BV Chemnitz 99 ( 2nd Bundesliga ProA ) as an assistant coach.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Steven Hutchinson is the new assistant coach. Retrieved May 24, 2018 .
  2. ^ History & Records. Portland Pilots, accessed March 10, 2016 .
  3. ↑ From Best to Weber . In: Deutscher Basketball Bund eV (Hrsg.): Special issue s.Oliver BBL season 2000/2001 . DSV Deutscher Sportverlag GmbH, Cologne 2000, p. 32 .
  4. ↑ Dino Reisner: Even Oldenburg is amazed at its boom: "Totally unreal". In: THE WORLD. Retrieved March 10, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Schön-Dunk: SD | News | EWE Baskets Oldenburg | Baskets have to do without Hutchinson. In: www.schoenen-dunk.de. Retrieved March 10, 2016 .
  6. ^ First round of the NBBL qualification in the Deutschhaus-Gymnasium: soliver-wuerzburg.de. Retrieved May 24, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hutchinson, Steven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH West Berlin