Adam Waleskowski

Adam Waleskowski
Player information
birthday	19th November 1982 (age 37)
place of birth	Cape Girardeau , Missouri , United States
size	203 cm
position	Power forward
college	Florida State
Club information
society	BG Göttingen
league	Basketball Bundesliga
Clubs as active
2001-2005 Florida State Seminoles ( NCAA ) 2005-2006 natural gas Ehingen / Urspringschule 2007 Étendard de Brest 2007-2008 Besançon BCD 2008 JSF Nanterre 2009 AE Achilléas Kaïmaklíou 2009 Besançon BCD 2009-2010 AE Achilléas Kaïmaklíou 2010-2011 BG 74 Göttingen 2011 Apollon Limassol 2012 Onyx Levice 2012–2013 Sigal Prishtina 2013 Düsseldorf Baskets 2013–2016 MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg 2016–2017 BG Göttingen 2017–2019 MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg 2019–2020 Skyliners Frankfurt Since 2020 BG Göttingen 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 0

Adam Waleskowski (born November 19, 1982 in Cape Girardeau , Missouri ) is a native American basketball player . After studying in his home country, Waleskowski began a professional career in Europe. Waleskowski's grandparents had emigrated to the United States with his German- born father, and in order not to fall under the more restrictive immigration restrictions in Europe, Waleskowski, like his brother Keith, took German citizenship . In addition to stations in Germany, Waleskowski played particularly in France and Cyprus . After moving to the second division Düsseldorf Baskets in Germany in January 2013, he played the following three seasons for the first division MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg from the 2013/14 basketball Bundesliga before moving to league rivals BG Göttingen, for whom he had already played in 2010 .

Career

Waleskowski went to the "Archbishop Alter High School" in Dayton (Ohio) and began studying at Florida State University in 2001 , where he played for the college team Seminoles in the Atlantic Coast Conference of the NCAA . Waleskowski played in a phase for this team in which this team had relatively little success. Only in 2004 did they get an invitation to the National Invitation Tournament , in which they were eliminated in the second round.

In 2005 Waleskowski began a professional career in his father's country of birth and played in the 2nd basketball league for the Steeples from Ehingen . In the 2nd basketball league 2005/06 they reached ninth place in the final table, the best placement since the rise in 2003. After his naturalization was delayed, Waleskowski also played in the following 2nd basketball league 2006/07 for the Ehinger before he moved to France at the turn of the year after a change to a club in the top German division did not take place.

In the second French league LNB Pro B , Waleskowski was initially active in 2007 for Étendard from Brest , with whom he was eliminated at the end of the season in the play-offs for promotion to the top division in the first round. He then moved to league rivals Basket Comté Doubs from Besançon , with whom he still achieved the championship and promotion to the top division in 2008 after an eighth place in the main round in the play-offs. For the following season 2008/09, however, he moved to the previous league competitor JSF from Nanterre , where he ended his contract at the beginning of the season in November 2008. He then played in mid-March 2009 for a game in Cyprus for Achilléas Kaïmaklíou, a club from the Kaimakli district of the capital Nicosia . At the end of April 2009, he moved again for a month until the end of the season to his previous club from Besançon in the LNB Pro A, which, however, occupied the penultimate place in the table as a climber and had to relegate again.

After Waleskowski had played again for Achilléas in Cyprus in the 2009/10 season, he was signed for the 2010/11 basketball Bundesliga by the German first division club BG 74 from Göttingen . The previous winner of the EuroChallenge 2009/10 reached the quarter-finals of the Eurocup 2010/11 . However, Waleskowski left the club in February 2011 and was again active in Cyprus at the end of the season, this time for Apollon from Limassol . With Apollon he was eliminated like a year before with Achilléas in the play-off quarter-finals of the championship, after being in third place in the main round, they were inferior to local rivals and previous and later runners-up Proteas EKA AEL . At the end of the 2011/12 season he moved to Onyx Astrium in Levice, Slovakia , who were defeated as defending champions in the play-offs of the Slovak championship in the first round against eventual champions BK Prievidza . In addition, Levice played in this season for the first time in the Czech basketball league , in which they were also eliminated in the quarter-finals against the local series champion ČEZ Nymburk .

In the 2012/13 season Waleskowski was initially active in Kosovo for the local runner-up Sigal from Priština . In January 2013 he returned to Germany and played in the ProA , which had replaced the second division in 2007, for the Baskets from Düsseldorf . With the Düsseldorf Baskets he reached the final in the play-offs for promotion and thus promoted to the first basketball league . The Düsseldorfers were subsequently refused the license for economic reasons. The beneficiaries were the Neckar giants from Ludwigsburg , who were relegated from the first division and received a “ wild card ” and were able to keep the class. For the basketball Bundesliga 2013/14 Waleskowski was then signed by Ludwigsburg of all places. He stayed there for three years and in September 2016 moved within the Bundesliga to BG Göttingen , for which he had already been active in 2010/11.

In the summer of 2017 he went back to Ludwigsburg, at the end of August 2019 he was signed by the Skyliners Frankfurt  . After 14 Bundesliga appearances for Frankfurt (4.6 points on average) he was given to Bundesliga competitor BG Göttingen in mid-January 2020 in exchange for Darius Carter. Waleskowski had already been under contract twice in his previous career with the "Veilchen".

Web links

• easyCredit BBL - Adam Waleskowski - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• Waleskowski, Adam - Profile on the Eurocup website ( English ; as of 2016)
• Adam Waleskowski - Besançon - Joueurs - Pro A - player profile on the websites of the French LNB ( French , as of 2009)
• Adam Waleskowski Bio - Florida State University Official Athletic Site - Profile on Florida State University's sports websites

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New entry: Adam Waleskowski ( Memento from April 29, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
2. ↑ Mark Bambey: Basabe has to give way to Waleskowski. Göttinger Tageblatt , September 3, 2016, accessed on September 3, 2016 . 
3. ^ Rolf Koch: Adam Waleskowski back in Ehingen. Schoenen-Dunk.de, August 22, 2006, accessed on April 19, 2013 (Medien-Info erdgas Ehingen). 
4. ↑ Erdgas Ehingen / Urspring School: In the target with ten points - Aaron Abrams remains a "steeple". (No longer available online.) DieJungeLiga.de, December 18, 2006, formerly in the original ; Retrieved on April 19, 2013 (Medien-Info erdgas Ehingen / Repro from Südwest Presse ).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
5. ↑ Adam Waleskowski Player Profile - International Stats, Game Logs: Season: 2008–2009. Eurobasket.com, accessed April 19, 2013 (English, seasonal statistics). 
6. ↑ Göttingen signed Adam Waleskowski. Spox website, July 11, 2010, accessed July 29, 2017 (sid agency report). 
7. ^ Separation from Adam Waleskowski. Göttinger Tageblatt , February 9, 2011, accessed on April 19, 2013 . 
8. ↑ Adam Waleskowski moves to the baroque town. Schönen Dunk — Website, July 9, 2013, accessed July 29, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Waleskowski comes, Basabe goes - BG Göttingen. In: www.bggoettingen.de. Retrieved September 3, 2016 . 
10. ↑ http://www.sport1.de/basketball/bbl/2017/06/bbl-adam-waleskowski-kehrt-zu-mhp-riesen-ludwigsburg-zurueck
11. ↑ https://www.fraport-skyliners.de/news-service/details/adam-waleskowski-ist-letztes-puzzleteil-im-fraport-skyliners-kader/
12. ↑ https://www.easycredit-bbl.de/de/statistiken/player/portraits/p/5181-adam-waleskowski/
13. ↑ https://www.sportbuzzer.de/artikel/transferhammer-bei-der-bg-gottingen-waleskowski-kom-carter- geht /