Tolga Öngören

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Basketball player
Tolga Öngören
Player information
Full name Tolga Mevlüt Öngören
birthday August 18, 1963
size 190 cm
Clubs as active
1985–1988 Efes Pilsen Istanbul 1988–1997 Tofaş SASTurkeyTurkey
TurkeyTurkey
Clubs as coaches
1999–2000 Tofaş SAS 2002–2003 Ülkerspor 2003–2004 Türk Telekom 2005–2007 Tofaş SAS 2008–2009 Walter Tigers Tübingen 2009–2010 EnBW LudwigsburgTurkeyTurkey
TurkeyTurkey
TurkeyTurkey
TurkeyTurkey
GermanyGermany
GermanyGermany

Tolga Mevlüt Öngören (born August 18, 1963 ) is a basketball coach from Turkey who has coached clubs in his home country, where he was once Turkish champion and twice cup winner, as well as clubs in the German basketball league .

Life

As a player, Öngören played for a long time in Bursa with Tofaş. After retiring as a player, he worked for a year as an assistant coach for the Boilermakers at Purdue University in the NCAA in the United States . After his return he became assistant to the head coach of Jasmin Repesa at Tofaş, who in 1999 achieved a triple of championship, cup and presidential cup. When Repesa resigned the following season, the inexperienced Öngören took over the team around the star players David Rivers , Slaven Rimac, Rashard Griffith and the young, up-and-coming Mehmet Okur . The championship and cup titles won for the first time in the club's history in 1999 were successfully defended. Öngören achieved another cup victory as coach of Ülkerspor in the 2002/03 season, in which the championship was lost in the decisive seventh final game against defending champions and record champions Efes Pilsen Istanbul . In the following season he resigned as coach of Ülker and was briefly coach of Türk Telekom in the capital Ankara . In 2005 he returned to Tofaş and led the club back to the first division. With the defeat on the last day of the 2006/07 season against Efes Pilsen, however, they fell back to a relegation zone. In January 2008 Öngören took over the relegation-threatened BBL club Walter Tigers from Tübingen and managed to stay up. After Tübingen's financial difficulties, Öngören and Tübingen parted ways at the end of the following season and he became the new coach of Bundesliga club EnBW Ludwigsburg. But even with Öngören, the club did not make it into the play-offs for the championship. As a result, his contract was not extended for the 2010/2011 season. His successor in Ludwigsburg was Markus Jochum .

Web links

  • Tolga Ongoren - Overview of past seasons as a player of the TBL (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Turkish Basketball League History (99/00) TBLStat.net (English), overview of play-offs and championship teams in the 1999/00 TBL season, accessed on September 29, 2010
  2. ↑ Tofas - Turkish Basketball League Team (06/07) TBLStat.net (English), overview of Tofas in the TBL season 2006/07, accessed on September 29, 2010
  3. ↑ Attack fully with new head coach Tolga Öngören . Walter Tigers press release of January 13, 2008, accessed September 29, 2010
  4. ↑ Igor Perovic new head coach at WALTER Tigers Tübingen . Walter Tigers press release of May 13, 2009, accessed on September 29, 2010
  5. ↑ Tolga Öngören new head coach in Ludwigsburg - McCoy remains assistant coach . EnBW Ludwigsburg press release of June 17, 2009, accessed on September 29, 2010
  6. ↑ No extension of the collaboration with head coach Tolga Öngören . EnBW Ludwigsburg press release of June 9, 2010, accessed on September 29, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Öngören, Tolga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Öngören, Tolga Mevlüt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish basketball coach and player
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1963