Rostock Seawolves

Basketball team in Rostock, Germany From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

NicknameSeewölfe
LeaguesBBL
Founded1994; 32 years ago (1994)
ArenaStadthalle Rostock
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Rostock Seawolves
Rostock Seawolves logo
NicknameSeewölfe
LeaguesBBL
Founded1994; 32 years ago (1994)
ArenaStadthalle Rostock
Capacity4,550
LocationRostock, Germany
Head coachPrzemyslaw Frasunkiewicz
Team captainSid-Marlon Theis
2024–25 positionBundesliga, 10th of 17
Websiteseawolves.de
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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
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.

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Rostock Seawolves roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.No.Nat.Name
G 0 United States Crockett, TJ 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) 26 – (1999-09-09)9 September 1999
G/F 2 United States Bowden, Jordan 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 29 – (1997-01-20)20 January 1997
F 3 Germany Lockhart, Dominic 1.99 m (6 ft 6 in) 31 – (1994-07-03)3 July 1994
G 4 Germany Baggette, Elias 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) 23 – (2002-04-28)28 April 2002
F 5 United States Schwartz, D’Shawn 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 27 – (1999-02-15)15 February 1999
F 8 United States Nicholson, Kassim 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 26 – (1999-05-28)28 May 1999
G 9 United States Lansdowne, DeAndre 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 36 – (1989-06-06)6 June 1989
PG 10 Poland Kolenda, Łukasz 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 26 – (1999-07-28)28 July 1999
SG 11 Germany Drews, Oshane 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 24 – (2001-04-01)1 April 2001
F 15 Germany Amaize, Robin 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 32 – (1994-01-31)31 January 1994
F 19 Germany Theis, Sid-Marlon 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 32 – (1993-04-26)26 April 1993
C 29 Canada Klassen, Owen 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 34 – (1991-10-31)31 October 1991
C 51 Germany Leuchten, Bent 2.14 m (7 ft 0 in) 23 – (2002-11-06)6 November 2002
F/C 81 Belgium Van Vliet, Andy 2.13 m (7 ft 0 in) 30 – (1995-07-27)27 July 1995
Head coach
  • Poland Przemyslaw Frasunkiewicz
Assistant coach(es)
  • Poland Piotr Blechacz
  • Germany Tom Schmidt

Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Injured Injured

Updated: December 17, 2025
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Notable players

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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.
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Season by season

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Season Tier League Pos. German Cup European competitions
2016–17 3 ProB 8th
2017–18 3 ProB 2nd
2018–19 2 ProA 5th
2019–20 2 ProA 12th
2020–21 2 ProA 3rd
2021–22 2 ProA 1st
2022–23 1 Bundesliga 9th
2023–24 1 Bundesliga 15th First round 4 FIBA Europe CupRS
2024–25 1 Bundesliga 10th First round
2025–26 1 Bundesliga 4 FIBA Europe Cup
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