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Schenk had suffered from heart problems for years. In the summer of 2017, the former village school teacher had to undergo a first operation. However, he never lost optimism that everything will be all right again. However, a second heart operation was now necessary, during which he suffered a stroke. Last night Simus’s heart stopped beating.
Schenk has shaped Swiss ice hockey like no other. As a player, he led SC Langnau to the only Swiss championship title in the club’s history in 1976. In 1985, the Trubschachen man took over as coach of the Swiss national team, with which he celebrated his promotion to Group A, which in That time consisted of just eight teams, at World Cup B in Eindhoven a year later.
In 1990, he became the head coach of the Olten team in the NLA league, before coaching Nati in 1995 for two more years. From 1998 to 2017, Schenk, who was elected to the SVP National Council in 1994, worked as the head of sports and sometimes also as managing director in the ZSC and GCK-Lions organization.
Most recently, the father of three children worked as an expert at the “My Sports” payment station.
