Alex Renfroe

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Alex Renfroe
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Alex Renfroe (2018)
Player information
Full name Gregory Alexander Renfroe
birthday May 23, 1986 (34 years 101 days)
place of birth Hermitage , Tennessee , United States
size 191 cm
position Point Guard / Shooting Guard
college Belmont
Club information
society Sidigas Avellino
league Lega Basket Serie A
Clubs as active
2004–2006 TNU Trojans ( NAIA ) 2007–2009 Belmont Bruins ( NCAA ) 2009–2010 VEF Riga 2010–2011 KK Zagreb 2011–2012 Enel Brindisi 2012–2013 Blancos de Rueda Valladolid 2013 Brose Baskets 2013–2014 BK Jenissei Krasnoyarsk 2014 Laboral Kutxa 2014–2015 Alba Berlin 2015–2016 FC Bayern Munich 2016–2017 FC Barcelona 2017–2018 Galatasaray Istanbul Since 2018 Felice Scandone AvellinoUnited StatesUnited States
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LatviaLatvia
CroatiaCroatia
ItalyItaly
SpainSpain
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TurkeyTurkey
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National team
Since 02015 Bosnia and Herzegovina

Gregory Alexander Renfroe (born May 23, 1986 in Hermitage , Tennessee ) is an American basketball player who has been a Bosnian-Herzegovinian since 2015 . Renfroe has been playing as a professional in Europe since graduating in 2009. At his first professional station in Riga , Latvia , he was named " Most Valuable Player " of the Baltic Basketball League 2009/10. With KK Zagreb he won the national double in Croatia in 2011 and the Legadue play-offs and promotion to the top Italian division with the Enel New Baskets from Brindisi in 2012 . After a stint in Valladolid , Spain , Renfroe played at the end of the 2012/13 Bundesliga basketball season for Brose Baskets , with whom he successfully defended their title as German champions . For the 2015/16 season he was under contract with the German first division club FC Bayern Munich . In the 2016/17 season, Renfroe moved again to the Spanish ACB league for top club FC Barcelona Lassa .

Career

In 2004 Renfroe first went to the Methodist Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville , whose sports teams are organized in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). After two years, he moved to Belmont University within Nashville . After the change of university, Renfroe was initially not used in championship games of the sports teams for a year and from 2007 played in the basketball team called Bruins at that time in the Atlantic Sun Conference of the NCAA . In 2008, the Bruins won the Conference championship tournament for the third time in a row. In the national finals of the NCAA they were faced with a big surprise in the first round, when they led against the high favorites Duke Blue Devils shortly before the end and in the end lost by only one point. Renfroe was his team's top scorer with 15 points in this game and was voted Player of the Year at his NCAA Conference the following season. However, the Bruins could not defend their championship title in the final tournament in 2009 and were therefore not qualified for the national finals.

In 2009 Renfroe started a professional career in Europe, playing for VEF Riga in Latvia. For the first time since the re-establishment in 2007 they reached the final series for the national championship in 2010, which was lost to local rivals BK Barons Rīga . While in the Euro Challenge 2009/10 to retire early, they failed in the Baltic club competition Baltic Basketball League in the quarterfinal play-off against national rivals BK Ventspils just wide of the entry into the Final Four tournament of the Elite Division, with Renfroe the MVP Main round was appointed. In the 2010/11 season Renfroe won their first national championship with KK Zagreb in Croatia and defended the cup title from the previous year. In the Adria-Liga one missed the entry into the Final Four tournament only because of the worse direct comparison . For the 2011/12 season, Renfroe moved across the Adriatic to the Enel New Baskets from Brindisi . With this club he won the league cup of the second Italian league LegADue and by winning the play-offs of this league managed to move up to the top division Serie A.

For the 2012/13 season moved Renfroe in the highest Spanish league ACB league to Blancos de Rueda in Valladolid . The bottom of the table of the previous season had only remained in the class because other clubs did not play and also played in the lower third of the table this season. In February 2013, the former German double winner Brose Baskets from Bamberg brought him into the basketball league as a reserve for the injury-ridden John Goldsberry . After defending the German championship Renfroe did not get a new contract and moved to BK Yenisei from Krasnoyarsk , who play in the Eastern European VTB United League . At the beginning of the play-offs he was signed by the Spanish club Saski Baskonia, which operated under the sponsor name Laboral Kutxa .

Then Renfroe moved back to the 2014/15 season in the basketball league to the then runner-up Alba Berlin . After a successful season in Berlin, where Renfroe averaged 10.7 points and 4.9 assist per game in the Bundesliga, he switched to league rivals FC Bayern Munich . There he signed a two-year contract. In the 2016/17 season Renfroe moved back to the Spanish ACB league for FC Barcelona Lassa .

National team

On August 6, 2015, the naturalized Renfroe made his debut for the Bosnian-Herzegovinian national basketball team .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bosnia and Herzegovinians, Georgia Offer Sneak Preview. (No longer available online.) 2015 European Championship , August 7, 2015, archived from the original on August 15, 2015 ; accessed on August 23, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eurobasket2015.org
  2. ↑ a b Regular season MVP of MasterCard BBL title belongs to Renfroe ( Memento from March 29, 2010 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ Belmont Bruins - Alex Renfroe Screenshot of March 6, 2013 from: Belmont Bruins website ( http://www.belmontbruins.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/renfroe_alex00.html ); Retrieved July 5, 2017
  4. ↑ Pete Thamel: Duke Escapes, but Is Exposed by Belmont. The New York Times , March 21, 2008, accessed March 1, 2013 .
  5. ↑ 2009-2010 Atlantic Sun Conference Basketball Media Guide. (PDF animated by Flash) Atlantic Sun Conference , p. 38 , accessed on March 1, 2013 (English, Annual Award Winners: Player-of-the-Year).
  6. ↑ Legaduebasket: Gregory Alexander Renfroe. Legadue , accessed March 1, 2013 (Italian, player profile).
  7. ↑ a b ACB.COM: Alex Renfroe. Liga ACB , accessed March 1, 2013 (Spanish, player profile).
  8. ↑ Ulrike Ringer: Renfroe comes for a battered Goldsberry. Brose Baskets , February 28, 2013, accessed on March 1, 2013 (media information).
  9. ↑ Fix! Renfroe changes to FC Bayern. Sport1 , accessed June 23, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Alex Renfroe moves to FC Barcelona. FC Bayern Munich (basketball) , accessed January 28, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Renfroe, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Renfroe, Gregory Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Hermitage , Tennessee