Marvin Willoughby
Marvin Willoughby is a former German basketball player. During his playing career, he completed 35 international caps and was the sporting director and managing director of Hamburg Towers.
At 16, he signed a professional contract with Steiner Bayreuth , but ultimately never played for the Franks. Bayreuth arranged for him to attend a high school in Orange Park in the US state of Florida, which he started in 1994. He spent in Richmond (State Virginia then) a second year in the US, before returning in 1996 for SC Rist Wedel. He played for Wedel in the 2nd basketball Bundesliga group north. In 1998 he moved to DJK Würzburg in the first basketball Bundesliga, played there with Dirk Nowitzki and was Holger Geschwindner funded. Geschwindner had great influence on him, Willoughby later said. With Nowitzki, Demond Greene and Robert Garrett, he was one of the "young guns" of the Würzburg team, which managed the Bundesliga promoted team in the 1998/99 season a place in the Masters round.
In 1996 he took part in the European Championship in France with the German junior national team and scored 5.7 points and 2.9 rebounds per use in the course of the tournament. At the 1998 U22 European Championship in Italy, Willoughby was the third best basketball player on the German team with an average of 10.9 points per game behind Nowitzki and Marko Pesic. In 2001 Willoughby made his international debut in the German men's national team. He participated in the 2001 European Basketball Championship in Turkey and reached the semi-finals. Total graduated Willoughby to 2003 35 international caps for Germany. With the German student national team, he was a participant in the Universiade 2001 in Beijing.
At 16, he signed a professional contract with Steiner Bayreuth , but ultimately never played for the Franks. Bayreuth arranged for him to attend a high school in Orange Park in the US state of Florida, which he started in 1994. He spent in Richmond (State Virginia then) a second year in the US, before returning in 1996 for SC Rist Wedel. He played for Wedel in the 2nd basketball Bundesliga group north. In 1998 he moved to DJK Würzburg in the first basketball Bundesliga, played there with Dirk Nowitzki and was Holger Geschwindner funded. Geschwindner had great influence on him, Willoughby later said. With Nowitzki, Demond Greene and Robert Garrett, he was one of the "young guns" of the Würzburg team, which managed the Bundesliga promoted team in the 1998/99 season a place in the Masters round.
In 1996 he took part in the European Championship in France with the German junior national team and scored 5.7 points and 2.9 rebounds per use in the course of the tournament. At the 1998 U22 European Championship in Italy, Willoughby was the third best basketball player on the German team with an average of 10.9 points per game behind Nowitzki and Marko Pesic. In 2001 Willoughby made his international debut in the German men's national team. He participated in the 2001 European Basketball Championship in Turkey and reached the semi-finals. Total graduated Willoughby to 2003 35 international caps for Germany. With the German student national team, he was a participant in the Universiade 2001 in Beijing.