[1] Within the New states of Germany, the Rostock Seawolves have more active members than any other basketball club.

Under coach Dirk Stenke, the Mecklenburg team managed to stay in Germany's highest amateur league for the first time in 2012, finishing fifth.

That same year, Rostock native Sebastian Wild, who had previously spent six years as head coach of the women's team at Lees-McRae College in the U.S. state of North Carolina, took over as coach and led the team around mainstays Sven Hellmann, Kwame Morgan and Jens Hakanowitz to third place in the standings behind Stade and Magdeburg.

In 2013, the club's goal was to make the leap to the Basketball Bundesliga in the long term.

Among the mainstays of the championship team were, in particular, the US American Keith Radcliff, the Bulgarian Ivo Slavchev, the Frenchman Mahmoud Diakite and Sven Hellmann.