Pat Elzie
Personal information
Born (1960-11-22) November 22, 1960
Troy, Missouri
NationalityAmerican / German
Listed height6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Career information
CollegeHoly Cross (1980–1984)
NBA draft1984: undrafted
Playing career1984–1996
PositionHead coach
Career history
As coach:
1996–1999Paderborn
1999–2001TV Langen
2001–2003BCJ Hamburg Tigers
2003Syria
2004Rist Wedel
2004–2006Tigers Tübingen
2006–2007BG Karlsruhe
2007–2008Kirchheim Knights
2009Eisbären Bremerhaven
2009BMC Larnaka
2009–2015SC Rasta Vechta
2015–2022Itzehoe Eagles
2022–2024EPG Baskets Koblenz

Patrick Elzie (born November 22, 1960)[1] is an American-German professional basketball coach and former professional player. He played collegiately at Holy Cross and professionally in Europe. He acquired German citizenship in 1994.[2]

Playing career

Born in Troy, Missouri, Elzie later moved to Wentzville, Missouri with his family.[2] A 6’8 (203 cm) power forward, he appeared in a total of 109 games for the Holy Cross Crusaders between 1980 and 1984, averaging 7.6 points and 6.4 rebounds a contest.[3] He kicked off his professional career with MTV Gießen of the German Basketball Bundesliga in 1984 and stayed with the team until 1987. After spending the 1987–88 campaign with Hageby Basket in Sweden's top-flight, Elzie returned to Gießen, where he played another two years, followed by stints at other German teams including TV Lich (1989–94), TuS Bramsche, SG Braunschweig (1994–95) and BCJ Hamburg (1995–96).[2]

Coaching career

After serving as player-coach in Braunschweig, Elzie became a full-time head coach at Paderborn in 1996. After a three-year stint, he took over the head coaching position at Langen and then returned to BCJ Hamburg in 2001. He led BCJ to the championship in the 2. Basketball Bundesliga in 2002, however, the team then folded due to insolvency.[2]

After a short tenure as head coach of the Syrian men's national team in 2003 and at SC Rist Wedel, Elzie was named head coach of the Walter Tigers Tübingen in Germany's top-flight Bundesliga in 2004. After parting ways with Tübingen in January 2006,[4] he served as associate head coach at BG Karlsruhe in the first half of the 2006–07 season, before moving to second-division side Kirchheim Knights, where he took over the head coaching job in January 2007.[5] He stayed on that job until the end of the 2007–08 campaign.

In 2008, Elzie was appointed as sport director of the Bremen Roosters in the German second-tier, but parted company with the organization in January 2009.[6] He then served as assistant coach of Bundesliga outfit Eisbären Bremerhaven for the remainder of the 2008–09 season.

After a brief stint as head coach of BMC Larnaka in Cyprus, Elzie returned to Germany, taking over the head coaching reigns for SC Rasta Vechta in 2009.[5] He would guide the team from Germany's third-level league ProB to the top-flight Bundesliga within four years.[7] After steering Rasta to the 2012 ProA championship, Elzie earned Eurobasket.com All-German 2.Bundesliga Pro A Coach of the Year honors.[8] He left his head coaching job after the conclusion of the 2013–14 season, which had ended in relegation from the Bundesliga. Elzie stayed with the club, working as director of the youth development program,[9] before returning to head coach in January 2015.[10] He then left Vechta at the end of the 2014–15 season[7] and was named head coach of German ProB side Itzehoe Eagles in May 2015.[11] Elzie was named ProB Coach of the Year after leading Itzehoe to the regular season championship in 2019–20.[12] Afterwards, the season was stalled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. He led the Itzehoe Eagles to the ProB finals in 2020–21 which were not played due to the ongoing impact of the pandemic. By reaching the ProB finals, Elzie's Itzehoe side earned the right to promotion to the ProA ranks for the second straight year. In 2020, the club had declined promotion to the next tier for infrastructural and financial reasons.[13]

Elzie and his Itzehoe team suffered relegation from the ProA in 2022. He stepped down from his position as Itzehoe head coach shortly after the conclusion of the 2021–22 season[14] and was appointed head coach of German ProB side EPG Baskets Koblenz on June 30, 2022.[15] He led them to a ProB championship in 2022-23 and to promotion to the German second division, ProA.[16] Elzie picked up Eurobasket.com ProB Coach of the Year honors in the 2022-23 campaign.[17] He was sacked by the Koblenz side on January 4, 2024.[18]

References

  1. ↑ "Patrick Elzie". 2. Basketball-Bundesliga (in German). Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Schütz, Klaus (2016). Teamplayer. Norderstedt, Germany. ISBN 978-3-7431-0245-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ↑ "Pat Elzie College Stats". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2017-10-02.
  4. ↑ "Tyron McCoy unterschreibt bis 2017 als Coach bei den Walter Tigers". Schwäbisches Tagblatt (in German). Retrieved 2017-10-02.
  5. 1 2 "Coach Profile Pat Elzie". Eurobasket.com. Retrieved 2017-10-02.
  6. ↑ "Pat Elzie wird neuer Assistenztrainer". schoenen-dunk.de. Retrieved 2017-10-02.
  7. 1 2 Schnurr, Nico. "Das Ende eines Basketball-Märchens". Weser-Kurier (in German). Retrieved 2017-10-02.
  8. ↑ "Pro A 2012-2013". Eurobasket.com. Archived from the original on June 1, 2013. Retrieved 2017-10-02.
  9. ↑ "Patrick Elzie übernimmt Regionalliga-Team und Jugendarbeit!". SC Rasta Vechta (in German). Retrieved 2017-10-02.
  10. ↑ "Rasta Vechta ersetzt Stephen Arigbabu mit Vorgänger Patrick Elzie". Sport1 (in German). Retrieved 2017-10-02.
  11. ↑ "Gestatten: Coach Pat Elzie". 2. Basketball-Bundesliga (in German). 7 May 2015. Retrieved 2017-10-02.
  12. ↑ "Elzie und Hooper geehrt". Itzehoe Eagles. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
  13. ↑ "Aufsteiger!!!!". Itzehoe Eagles. Retrieved 2021-05-16.
  14. ↑ "2. Basketball-Bundesliga ProA: Coach Pat Elzie kündigt nach Niederlage der Itzehoe Eagles gegen Rasta Vechta seinen Rückzug an". Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag (in German). 9 April 2022. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  15. ↑ "Nach Koblenz: Patrick Elzie verlässt die Itzehoe Eagles". 2. Basketball-Bundesliga (in German). 30 June 2022. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  16. ↑ "Mission 1. Liga: Dieser Basketball-Verein aus Koblenz will ganz hoch hinaus". Südwestrundfunk (in German). 2023-06-04. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  17. ↑ "Eurobasket.com All-German 2.Bundesliga Pro B Awards 2023". Eurobasket.com. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  18. ↑ "Nach der Niederlage gegen Frankfurt: Aufstiegstrainer Elzie muss bei den Baskets Koblenz gehen". Rhein-Zeitung (in German). 2024-01-04. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
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