Colin Schroeder was born in East Frisia, grew up in Weyhe and currently lives in Bremen. The 17-year-old basketball player wants to get started with Baskets Oldenburg.
Shoe size 50, height 2.02 meters: young basketball player Colin Schroeder is truly a phenomenon. The athletic 17-year-old exudes enormous self-confidence for his age. Not just because of his physical presence.
Schroeder is ambitious and appears more determined than his peers. “I have always been different from my fellow competitors and my teammates. I have always been the first in the hall,” explains Schroeder, who plays a leadership role in the Baskets Juniors regional league squad.
Schroeder acts as a luggage carrier
In the summer of 2024, Schroeder won runner-up in the youth Bundesliga with the Baskets, and then he became European champion in Finland with the German U18 national team – albeit only as a supplementary player. The Baskets made their debut in the Bundesliga a few weeks ago.
Despite his professional debut, power forward Schroeder is far from standing out. “Of course I’m the rookie,” says Schroeder, describing his first Bundesliga appearance: “I was allowed to carry bags and was the last to get something to eat. But I accepted that for such a spectacular experience.”
Schroeder’s goal is the NBA
“My goal is to be at the top. Every stage that I reach up to that point is a win for me,” says Schroeder, who is currently in the 12th grade of the Bremen high school on Ronzelenstrasse in Horn-Lehe and the attached one Sports boarding school lives.
“At the top” is clearly defined for Schroeder: he later wants to play in the NBA, the US professional league. Like namesake Dennis Schröder, who made the leap from northern Germany to become a celebrated basketball superstar in the United States.
My life needed meaning and I found that meaning in basketball. Whenever I play basketball, I block everything out. I forget everything, I’m in my world. It’s indescribable.
(Basketball talent Colin Schroeder)
Schroeder’s coach curbs the euphoria
In order to get to the “top,” a lot of work is still necessary. Dimitrios Polychroniadis knows that Schroeder cannot rest on his laurels.
Polychroniadis trains the Baskets Juniors, but doesn’t want to rush anything with his protégé: “We first have to give him the time to mature. Of course you can dream of anything – including the NBA, but you have to take it step by step.”
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Sportblitz, November 15, 2024, 6:06 p.m
