Terence Schofield

Terence Schofield (1971)

Terence "Terry" Schofield (born June 16, 1948 in Los Angeles , California ) is a former native American basketball player and coach.

NCAA at the UCLA Bruins

Schofield played from 1968 to 1971 while studying in the USA for the UCLA Bruins basketball team under coach John Wooden in the NCAA . Wooden became a legend in US college basketball because he won the NCAA ten times with the Bruins between 1963 and 1975. Schofield himself was on the championship teams in seasons 68/69, 69/70 & 70/71. In the first year of the championship, Schofield still played with Lew Alcindor, who later became one of the most important players in the NBA professional league as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar . Schofield's other teammates were Bill Sweek, who would later celebrate championships in France with Le Mans Sarthe Basket as a coach , John Ecker , who played for Bayer Leverkusen in Germany after graduating from UCLA and became a teacher there, and Jonathan Chapman , who also played in the German Bundesliga after graduation. Schofield played a total of 83 games for the UCLA university team and came up with averages of 6.1 points and 1.6 rebounds per encounter. In his senior year 1970/71 of 1.90 meters wide point guard received the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship as a scholarship and was a Bruins' Most Improved Player of the Year as well as the UCLA Faculty Athletic Representative Award honored. After Schofield's graduation, UCLA celebrated further championships under Wooden until 1975, including with Bill Walton and the later Leverkusen player Greg Lee and Wilbert Olinde , whom Schofield himself was supposed to bring to Germany for SSC Göttingen .

Bundesliga at SSC Göttingen and national coach

Schofield came to Germany as a player in 1973 at what was then SSC Göttingen . In the beginning he was homesick in Göttingen because of the weather, the Californian looked back in 2017. Before that, his move to Bordeaux in France had failed, and then, through John Ecker , Walther Meyer brought him to Lower Saxony, where Schofield initially received DM 600 per month and also worked as a lecturer at the University of Göttingen. Schofield's mother was against moving to Göttingen, as the city was only about 15 kilometers from the then border with the German Democratic Republic and, according to Schofield, she was afraid that the Russians would invade. Schofield later reported about his early days in Göttingen and his teammates there: “(...) but they couldn't play basketball. In addition, they all smoked, self-made or Roth-Händle, even at halftime. ”In the 73/74 season he led the Bundesliga basket hunter list with 335 points scored in the main round. After the SSC could not qualify for the single-track first division in 1975 , they returned to the highest class through promotion in 1976. In 1977 Schofield succeeded in bringing UCLA graduate Olinde to Göttingen, who, as the club's captain and identification figure, was to become the fixed point of the following Göttingen successes. In 1978 Göttingen under Schofield just missed the Bundesliga championship round and was about to be eliminated as a coach, but had an advocate in the department head Walther Meyer who stood up for him and ultimately ensured that Schofield remained in office. In 1980, Schofield won the championship for the first time as a coach with the SSC . According to Schofield's assessment, the sponsorship situation in Göttingen was "catastrophic" at the time, and it was a sensation that one had nevertheless become German champions. To strengthen the Lower Saxony Bundesliga team, Schofield systematically looked for Americans with German roots by sending letters to numerous trainers from university teams in the United States. In this way he found Ulrich Peters , whom he brought to Göttingen. The SSC merged with the TG 1846 Göttingen to form the ASC 1846 Göttingen . As ASC, two further championships in 1984 and 1985 and twice the cup win . Together with Meyer, Schofield also coached Göttingen youth teams. According to the newspaper Die Welt, Schofield made a significant contribution to “the sport of basketball taking first place in Göttingen”.

Schofield's successes as a Göttingen trainer meant that the DBB appointed him from 1980 in addition to the national coach of the men's national team . He held this position in personal union with the trainer from BSC Saturn Cologne Professor Theodor Schober . The German national team succeeded in qualifying for a final tournament for the first time since 1965 at the European Championship in 1981 - at the European Championship in 1971 and the 1972 Olympic Games they were qualified as hosts. In 1983 Ralph Klein took over the national team and qualified for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, aided by the boycott of the Eastern Bloc .

Trainer TTL Bamberg

In 1988 ASC Göttingen withdrew from the basketball league for economic reasons. Schofield took a leave of absence from the University of Göttingen and became the coach of the first division TTL Bamberg . After the cup final in 1990, Bamberg's first national title was celebrated by winning the cup in 1992. In 1993 you were only intercepted in the championship by the then overpowering record champions TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the final. At the end of 1994, Schofield collapsed unconscious during a championship game on the Bamberg dugout, took his doctor's advice from basketball and did not return to the sidelines afterwards. Instead, he went back to Göttingen and worked as a university lecturer again.

Sports director SG Braunschweig

Schofield, who, despite his collapse, did not want to do without basketball, but no longer wanted to expose himself to the stresses of the coaching profession, worked from spring 1995 to the end of January 1999 as sports director for SG Braunschweig . He held the office while he was working full-time in the university department in Göttingen. When he became sports director in Braunschweig, the team was still in the second division, but when Bramsche bought the right to participate in the summer of 1995, they were back in the Bundesliga. Schofield did not watch some of the home games of the Braunschweig team indoors to avoid another collapse, but went for a walk while doing so.

Later he was still involved in his free time with his German parent club, ASC Göttingen, and carried out basketball courses in African countries on behalf of the FIBA world association . Schofield was a lecturer at the Department of English Philology at the University of Göttingen until 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Terence Schofield in the Munzinger archive , accessed on December 5, 2009 ( beginning of article freely available)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Terry Schofield College Stats. Retrieved May 25, 2019 . 
3. ↑ 1970-71 UCLA Bruins Roster and Stats. Retrieved May 25, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Bruins 2009-10 MEN'S BASKETBALL MEDIA GUIDE pp. 103, 108-109; (English) PDF (3.66 MB), accessed on December 5, 2009.
5. ↑ John Wooden, Jack Tobin: They Call Me Coach. Chicago 2004, pp. 165ff. (online at: books.google.de accessed on December 5, 2009)
6. ↑ This is how Schofield experienced his first Christmas in Göttingen. Retrieved May 25, 2019 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b c} 40 years ago Terry Schofield came to Göttingen from Los Angeles. Retrieved May 25, 2019 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b} Horst Schneider: "They all smoked" . In: Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (Ed.): 50 Years of the Basketball Bundesliga . Cologne, ISBN 978-3-7307-0242-0 , pp. 72, 73 .
9. ↑ From Sarodnik, via Kämpf and Wendt to Nowitzki and Wood - all top scorers in Bundesliga history. In: Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved May 26, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Wolfgang Buss: Schofield came, saw and won - from US college star to German champion? In: Arnd Krüger , Swantje Scharenberg (Hrsg.): Times for heroes - times for celebrities in sport. LIT, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12498-2 , pp. 179-194.
11. ↑ Marcus Berg: “In Altdeutschen” a beer for the Americans. In: The world. March 28, 1983, Retrieved December 6, 2019 . 
12. ↑ SPON archive: Better in the block. In: Der Spiegel. 21/1981, May 18, 1981, accessed December 14, 2009.
13. ↑ wbeyersdorf.de: The distance to the top has become smaller. Season review 1994/95 TTL Bamberg, Franconian Day April 15, 1995, accessed on December 14, 2009.
14. ↑ ^{a b c} Terry Schofield. The Göttinger by choice was sports director at SG for almost four years. In: Ute Berndt, Henning Brand, Ingo Hoffmann, Christoph Matthies (eds.): Dunke-Schön. 25 years of the 1st Bundesliga basketball team in Braunschweig . Klartext Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1505-3 , p. 98-101 .
15. ↑ ASC Göttingen von 1846 eV: Coach plan basketball department 2006  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 14, 2009.  
16. ↑ Terry Schofield and his big appearance with the legendary Abdul-Jabbar. Retrieved May 25, 2019 .