Artland Dragons
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| Artland Dragons | ||||
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| Leagues | first team : BBL U19 : NBBL U16 : JBBL |
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| Founded | 1955 as QTSV | |||
| Arena | Artland-Arena (3.000 spectators) |
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| Location | Quakenbrück, Germany | |||
| Team colors | Red and white |
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| President | Marko Beens | |||
| Head coach | Stefan Koch | |||
| Championships | 1 German Cup | |||
| Website | www.artland-dragons.de | |||
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Artland Dragons is a basketball club based in Quakenbrück, Germany that plays in the Basketball Bundesliga. Their home arena is Artland Arena, which has room for 3000 spectators.
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[edit] History
Basketball has a long tradition in Quakenbrück. It was first played in the Artland-Gymnasium school. The basketball section of the sports club QTSV Quakenbrück was established in 1955. In the 1970s the first men team got the first achievement by promoting to the second German League, where they stayed for three seasons.
After a long time without great success Günter 'Ice' Kollmann, former German basketball player and junior national team member, supported the QTSV team as a main sponsor. By continuous work on the youth education in the 1980s, the team had major successes in the 1990s: in 1994 the team promoted to the second regional league, followed by promotion to the first regional league one season later and promotion to the second national league another season later. In 2003 the promotion to the highest national league was made.
In the seasons 1995/1996 and 2002/2003 the team was unbeaten in its league.
[edit] BBL history
2004: Play-offs missed by one game
2005: 5th place, Play-off quarter-final
2006: 5th place, Play-off quarter final, semi-final in the German Cup
2007: 8th place, vice-championship in league and German Cup
2008: 2nd place, Play-off quarter-final, German Cup Champion
[edit] Season by season
| Season | Tier | League | Pos. | Postseason | German Cup | European competitions |
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| 2000–01 | 2 | 2. BBL | 2 | – | – | – |
| 2001–02 | 2 | 2. BBL | 3 | – | – | – |
| 2002–03 | 2 | 2. BBL | 1 | Promoted | – | – |
| 2003–04 | 1 | Bundesliga | 9 | – | – | – |
| 2004–05 | 1 | Bundesliga | 6 | Quarterfinalist | – | – |
| 2005–06 | 1 | Bundesliga | 5 | Quarterfinalist | Fourth position | – |
| 2006–07 | 1 | Bundesliga | 2 | Runner-up | Runner-up | – |
| 2007–08 | 1 | Bundesliga | 5 | Quarterfinalist | Champion | Played ULEB Cup |
| 2008–09 | 1 | Bundesliga | 9 | – | – | Played Eurocup |
| 2009–10 | 1 | Bundesliga | 9 | – | – | Played EuroChallenge |
| 2010–11 | 1 | Bundesliga | 4 | Semifinalist | Third position | Played EuroChallenge |
| 2011–12 | 1 | Bundesliga | – | EuroChallenge |
[edit] Current team
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined by FIBA. Players may hold more than one nationality.
| Nr. | Nat. | Name | Birthday | Height | Position |
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| 5 |  |
Anthony Hilliard | 28-06-1986 | 1.93m | Guard/Forward |
| 7 |  |
Goran Jeretin | 17-09-1979 | 1.92m | Guard |
| 8 |  |
Christian Hoffmann | 12-03-1987 | 1.85m | Guard |
| 9 | |
Johannes Strasser | 13-06-1982 | 1.89m | Guard |
| 11 | |
David Holston | 26-01-1986 | 1.70m | Guard |
| 12 | |
Bryan Bailey | 13-05-1980 | 1.85m | Guard |
| 13 | |
Guido Grünheid | 25-10-1982 | 2.08m | Forward |
| 24 | |
Darren Fenn | 17-02-1980 | 2.08m | Center |
| 31 |  |
Nathan Peavy | 31-03-1985 | 2.03m | Forward |
| 34 | |
Adam Hess | 04-04-1981 | 2.01m | Forward |
| 54 | |
Florian Hartenstein | 13-08-1977 | 2.05m | Center |
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Stefan Koch | Coach | |||
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Tyron McCoy | Assistant coach | |||
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Martin Schiller | Assistant coach |
[edit] Partner / Youth team
Partner club of the Artland Dragons is the local basketball club "QTSV" with a men's team playing in the regional league and a women's team playing in the second German women league. There is also a variety of other teams (youth and adults, also wheelchair basketball). The youth team of the Artland Dragons are the "Young Dragons", playing in the NBBL, the German youth team league (Nachwuchs Basketball Bundesliga).
[edit] Cheerleader squad a team mascot
The cheerleader squad is called "The Flames", it is trained by Annette Schone. The team mascot is a dragon called "Tobi der Drache" (Tobi the dragon)
