Christian Ansgar Welp was a German professional basketball player.
12 Facts About Chris Welp
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Chris Welp scored 2,073 points for the Huskies, and was a three-time All-Pac-10 Conference selection.
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Chris Welp was the Pac-10 Player of the Year in 1986, and helped lead the Huskies to consecutive conference regular-season titles.
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Chris Welp was inducted into the Husky Hall of Fame, in 2001.
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Chris Welp was traded by the 76ers, along with Maurice Cheeks and David Wingate, to the San Antonio Spurs, in exchange for Johnny Dawkins and Jay Vincent, during the off-season of 1989.
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From 1990 to 1996, Chris Welp played in Germany, with Bayer Leverkusen, with which he won six German national league championships and three German Cups.
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Chris Welp won the gold medal at the EuroBasket 1993, as a player for the senior Germany national team.
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Chris Welp scored the decisive last points in the tournament's final.
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Chris Welp worked as an assistant basketball coach for the senior Germany national team until 2006.
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Chris Welp worked at a construction-supply business in Woodinville, for Tim Burnham, a former football player, with whom he had become friends during college.
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Chris Welp was at a vacation home on Hood Canal, that he had purchased just after being drafted in 1987.
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Chris Welp had been complaining of chest pains, and was planning to see a doctor.