Education
Olympic High School.
Olympic High School.
Welp, a 213 centimetres (7 ft 0 in), 111 kilograms (245 lb) center, became the leading scorer in Washington Huskies history as a college basketball player. He scored 2,073 points for the Huskies and was a three-time all-Pac-10 selection. Welp was the Pac-10 player of the year in 1986 and helped lead the Huskies to consecutive conference regular-season titles.
He also played three seasons in the
Welp was selected 16th overall in the National Basketball Association"s () 1987 Draft by the Philadelphia 76ers and he played three seasons in the He 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.
He was used sparingly by the Spurs before being traded to the Golden State Warriors in exchange for Uwe Blab (another German-born center) at the trade deadline during the 1989-1990 season. After a handful of games with the Warriors, his career ended.
He was voted Most Valuable Player of that tournament. Foreign the 1996-1997 season, Welp played with the Greek League club Olympiacos, winning the Euroleague title with them.
In the 1997-1998 season he played with the German league club ALBA Berlin.
He also played with the Italian league club Viola Reggio Calabria during the 1998-1999 season. Welp worked as an assistant coach for the national team of Germany until 2006. Welp was inducted into the Husky Hall of Fame in 2001.
Welp died on March 1, 2015 of heart failure.