As of the end of the year, Benjamin Hinterstocker and Tommy Kettner will no longer be coaches of the women's and young talent national teams of the Deutscher Eishockey-Bund (DEB) employed. Your contracts, which were limited to December 31, 2018, will not be extended by mutual agreement.
Hinterstocker began working for the women's national team in 2008 as assistant coach to Peter Kathan. After a short term at ECC Preussen Berlin In the 2012/13 season, he returned to the association as assistant coach of the women's national team and at the same time as U18 women's national coach. Since 2014 he has looked after the women's national team as a full-time coach. He celebrated his greatest success last year at the 2017 IIHF Women's Ice Hockey World Championship in Plymouth (USA), where the women's national team took fourth place. Participation in the 2018 Olympic Games in PyeongChang was narrowly missed at the qualifying tournament.
Kettner has been working full-time as assistant coach to Benjamin Hinterstocker and at the same time as U18 women's national coach for the association for three years. He previously worked as an ice hockey coach and boarding school director in Freiburg and looked after the young talent teams Starbulls Rosenheim and the EC Bad Tölz. The U18 women's national team plays in the IIHF Div. IA and is aiming for promotion to the top division.
The DEB expressly thanks both trainers for their constructive cooperation and wishes them all the best for the future.
Franz Reindl, DEB-President: “We would like to thank Benjamin Hinterstocker and Tommy Kettner for their excellent work over the past few years. With a view to the absolutely necessary qualification for the Olympic Games in Beijing 2022, it is now important to use the Olympic cycle with new momentum and all our strength.”
Stefan Schaidnagel, DEB-Sports Director: “Benjamin Hinterstocker and Tommy Kettner have done very good work for German women's ice hockey in recent years. You have played a positive role in shaping the extremely important development work in the women's sector. We now need to take the next steps in the area of women’s national teams in order to be able to reach the next level internationally.”