Adam Hrycaniuk

Adam Hrycaniuk
Player information
birthday	March 15, 1984
place of birth	Myślibórz, Poland
size	206 cm
position	Power Forward / Center
college	Cincinnati
Club information
society	Stelmet Zielona Góra
league	Polska Liga Koszykówki
Jersey number	14th
Clubs as active
2002–2004 Spójnia Stargard Szczeciński 2004–2005 Barton CC Cougars (NJCAA) 2005–2006 TVCC Cardinals (NJCAA) 2007–2008 Cincinnati Bearcats ( NCAA ) 2008–2013 Asseco Prokom Gdynia 2013 Valencia Basket Club Since 2013 Stelmet Zielona Góra 00000 0
National team
Since 02010	Poland

Adam Hrycaniuk (born March 15, 1984 in Myślibórz , Gorzów Voivodeship ) is a Polish basketball player . After studying in the United States , Hrycaniuk continued his career in his home country with the serial master Asseco Prokom, with whom he was four times Polish champion. The Polish national player and two-time European Championship finalist has played for Stelmet Zielona Góra since 2013 .

Career

Hrycaniuk grew up in the youth teams of Spojnia from Stargard Szczeciński in West Pomerania , where he also had first appearances in the top division Polska Liga Koszykówki before he began studying in the United States in 2004. First, he tried at the Barton County Community College in Kansas to create the necessary conditions for further studies at a regular college. Here he played for the college team Cougars in the National Junior Collegiate Athletic Association (NJCAA). After a year he moved to the Trinity Valley Community College in Athens (Texas) , where he also played in the NJCAA for the Cardinals university team , for which, with Shawn Kemp and Nick Van Exel , among others , later NBA professionals were active. Finally, in 2006 he got a place at the University of Cincinnati , where he played for the Bearcats college team from 2007 in what was then the Big East Conference of the NCAA . After a year with unconvincing throwing rates for a front court player, however, he already ended his NCAA career and returned to his home country to begin a professional career.

For the 2008/09 season Hrycaniuk got a contract with the Polish champions Asseco Prokom, who was still playing in Sopot at the time. In the highest-ranking European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2008/09 , the team reached the intermediate round of the 16 best teams after only two wins, in which they were eliminated after only one further victory in six games. After the sixth championship title in a row, the main sponsor, Ryszard Krauze, pushed through the relocation of the team's headquarters to neighboring Gdynia . The team around the US-Americans Ronald Burrell and the naturalized David Logan was strengthened by the German national player Jan Jagla and surprisingly reached the quarter-final play-offs in the ULEB Euroleague 2009/10 , in which one won four games knocked out against the eventual finalist Olympiacos Piraeus . After defending his title in the Polish championship, Hrycaniuk made his debut in qualifying for the 2011 European Championship finals in the Polish men's national team . After the departure of Logan and Jagla, Asseco Prokom only won two games in ten preliminary round games in the ULEB Euroleague 2010/11 , which this time meant early elimination. After another championship title with Asseco Prokom nachm Hrycaniuk for Poland, after increasing the field of participants, he also took part in the 2011 European Championship finals in neighboring Lithuania, where he was one of the starting five of the Polish selection. After two defeats in the beginning, there were two wins, but in the last group game of the preliminary round Poland missed the possible intermediate round qualification against the British national basketball team .

In the ULEB Euroleague 2011/12 , the preliminary round for Asseco Prokom was almost disastrous after only one win in ten games and in seven games of the national play-off final series against the home club Trefl Sopot , which was re-established at the old location , the Polish championship title could only just be defended . After failed investments, the main sponsor reduced the financial commitment and in the ULEB Euroleague 2012/13 it was also only enough to win twice in the preliminary round. The financial problems finally led Hrycaniuk to move to the club from Valencia in the Spanish ACB league before the end of the season in March 2013 , which after an overpowering 80:42 opening success in the first play-off game, the two following games against CAI Saragossa lost and was eliminated in the first round. At the European Championship finals tournament in 2013 , the Polish selection in the front court with, among others, the NBA professional Marcin Gortat was well staffed, so that Hrycaniuk under the German national coach Dirk Bauermann received only little time with an average of three minutes per game. However, the Polish selection disappointed and only won the last insignificant group game against hosts Slovenia . For the new 2013/14 season, Hrycaniuk switched to the new Polish champion Stelmet from Zielona Góra , who was eliminated in the ULEB Euroleague 2013/14 after only two wins in ten games in the preliminary round and in the intermediate round of the Eurocup 2013/14 in a group among other things, the two later finalists UNICS Kazan and his former Spanish team from Valencia had no chance. Last but not least, the defending champion lost the final series of the national championship against the Lower Silesian rival Turów Zgorzelec .

Web links

Commons : Adam Hrycaniuk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• HRYCANIUK, ADAM - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB ( English )
• Adam Hrycaniuk - player profile on the websites of the PLK ( Polish )
• archive.fiba.com: Players - Adam HRYCANIUK (POL) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)
• Adam Hrycaniuk Bio - Profile on the University of Cincinnati Sports Websites

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Adam Hrycaniuk Stats - Cincinnati Bearcats. (No longer available online.) Statsheet.com, archived from the original on February 21, 2010 ; accessed on August 8, 2014 (English, detailed statistics). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ ACB.COM: Adam Hrycaniuk. Liga ACB , accessed August 8, 2014 (Spanish, player profile).