Rostock Seawolves

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Rostock Seawolves
NicknameSeewölfe
Leagues Basketball Bundesliga
Founded1994;30 years ago (1994)
ArenaStadthalle Rostock
Capacity4,550
Location Rostock, Germany
Head coach Christian Held
2022–23 positionBundesliga, 9th of 16
Website seawolves.de

Rostock Seawolves is a professional basketball club based in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The club currently competes in the Basketball Bundesliga.

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The Seawolves play their home games in the Rostocker Stadthalle. [1]

Within the New states of Germany, the Rostock Seawolves have more active members than any other basketball club. (3rd most within Germany overall, as of December 2021)

History

The EBC was founded in 1994 by members of the Sportgemeinschaft (SG) Fischkombinat (FiKo) Rostock and the HSG Uni Rostock. For the first time, the team was promoted to the 1st regional league in 2007. Despite a successful start to the season, however, direct relegation could not be avoided. Under coach Dirk Stenke, the Mecklenburg team managed to stay in Germany's highest amateur league for the first time in 2012, finishing fifth. In the summer of 2012, the name EBC Rostock Seawolves was conceived, under which the team played from then on. That same year, Rostock native Sebastian Wild, who had previously spent six years as head coach of the women's team at Lees-McRae College in the U.S. state of North Carolina, took over as coach and led the team around mainstays Sven Hellmann, Kwame Morgan and Jens Hakanowitz to third place in the standings behind Stade and Magdeburg. In 2013, the club's goal was to make the leap to the Basketball Bundesliga in the long term.

The goal for the 2013/14 season was to confirm the third place from the previous year. In the end, the team finished first in the table and was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga ProB Nord. Among the mainstays of the championship team were, in particular, the US American Keith Radcliff, the Bulgarian Ivo Slavchev, the Frenchman Mahmoud Diakite and Sven Hellmann. One of the highlights of the season was the head-to-head race with promotion rival Itzehoe Eagles. This resulted in a rivalry that developed into a kind of derby due to the regional proximity.

In May 2018, the Seawolves signed Milan Škobalj as their new head coach, [2] who later left the team. In 2020, Dirk Bauermann became head coach.

Stadthalle Rostock, home arena of the club Stadthalle Rostock.JPG
Stadthalle Rostock, home arena of the club
Huddle in April 2023. Rostock Seawolves huddle 2023.JPG
Huddle in April 2023.

Players

Current roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

Rostock Seawolves roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.No.Nat.Name
G 5 Flag of the United States.svg Carter, Chris 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)32 – (1992-05-07)7 May 1992
PG 8 Flag of the United States.svg Medford, Lester 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)31 – (1993-05-24)24 May 1993
C 11 Flag of the United States.svg Goodwin, Chevez 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)26 – (1998-02-27)27 February 1998
SF 13 Flag of the United States.svg Lockett, Eric 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)28 – (1995-12-25)25 December 1995
SG 15 Flag of Germany.svg Amaize, Robin 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)30 – (1994-01-31)31 January 1994
C 18 Flag of Germany.svg Gloger, Till 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in)31 – (1993-01-26)26 January 1993
F 19 Flag of Germany.svg Theis, Sid-Marlon 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in)31 – (1993-04-26)26 April 1993
SG 20 Flag of the United States.svg Bradley, Matt 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)25 – (1999-08-19)19 August 1999
F 21 Flag of the United States.svg Alston Jr., Derrick 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)27 – (1997-09-17)17 September 1997
SG 22 Flag of Germany.svg Drews, Oshane 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)23 – (2001-04-01)1 April 2001
F 24 Flag of the United States.svg Rubit, Augustine 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)35 – (1989-08-14)14 August 1989
Head coach
  • Flag of Germany.svg Christian Held
Assistant coach(es)
  • Flag of Germany.svg Ralph Held
  • Flag of Germany.svg Tom Schmidt
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Cruz Roja.svg Injured
Updated: 4 April 2024

Notable players

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

Criteria

To appear in this section a player must have either:

  • Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club
  • Played at least one official international match for their national team at any time
  • Played at least one official NBA match at any time.

Season by season

SeasonTierLeaguePos. German Cup European competitions
2022–23 1 Bundesliga 9th
2023–24 1 Bundesliga 15th First round 4 FIBA Europe Cup RS
2024–25 1 Bundesliga First round

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References

  1. ↑ Rostock Seawolves gewinnen Play-off-Auftakt NDR.de, 9 March 2018. Retrieved 7 July 2018.(in German)
  2. ↑ Milan Škobalj wird neuer Trainer der Rostocker Seawolves SVZ.de, 9 May 2018. Retrieved 7 July 2018.(in German)
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