Ama Degbeon

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Basketball player
Ama Degbeon
Information about the player
Full name Ama Degbeon
birthday December 16, 1995 (24 years and 260 days)
place of birth Berlin, Germany
size 1.84 m
position Power Forward / Center
Club information
society AZS UMCS Lublin
Jersey number 12
National team
since 2013 GermanyGermany Germany

Ama Degbeon (born December 16, 1995 in Berlin ) is a German national basketball player . The 1.84 m tall player is used as a power forward and center .

career

In 2011, the then U16 and A national coach Alexandra Maerz recognized Ama Degbeon's talent and convinced the USC Heidelberg player to move to the part-time basketball boarding school (BTI) in Grünberg (Hesse) . Subsequently, Ama Degbeon was used in the WNBL team Mittelhessen (a joint U17 Bundesliga team of the Hessian cooperation partners TSV Grünberg and BC Marburg ) and later also in the second division team of the Bender Baskets Grünberg . Ama Degbeon began her international playing career in the U16 selection, followed by appointments to the U18 and U20 selection teams of the DBB .

At the age of 17, she played her first international match on May 11, 2013 and celebrated a successful debut with six points against Luxembourg . Consequently, it was used in the same year in the qualifying games for the European Championship. In the 2013/2014 season, she was promoted to the highest German league. Ama Degbeon played with a double license at both the second division TSV Grünberg and the first division BC Marburg. The young player quickly became a regular in Marburg.

In 2014 Ama Degbeon received a scholarship from Florida State University in Tallahassee . She studied (major: biology) and played at college in the United States until 2018. Degbeon recorded the best statistics of her university time in the USA in her senior season 2017/18, when she was in the starting line- up 32 times in 33 appearances and averaged 6.5 points and 6.5 rebounds.

For the 2017/18 season she moved to the Swedish first division club A3 Basket Umeå, with whom she won the championship title in spring 2019. In August 2019 she became German champion in the basketball game "3-on-3" . In the run-up to the 2019/20 season, she accepted an offer from the Polish club AZS UMCS Lublin.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DBB-U18 girls finish EM in 9th place ( memento from February 24, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ^ NN: Women's Hoops Signs International Talent Ama Degbeon. On: Florida State University website; Tallahassee, FL, November 14, 2013. Retrieved July 25, 2017 (in English).
  3. ^ Women's basketball. Retrieved October 23, 2018 (American English).
  4. ↑ Florida State Women's Basketball Florida State Combined Team Statistics (as of Mar 19, 2018). In: http://seminoles.com . Retrieved October 23, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Peter Hege Thorn: Ny stjärntrio clear för A3 Basket. In: Västerbotten's Kurirs. Retrieved October 23, 2018 .
  6. ↑ DBB women abroad 2018/2019 - Update 26th German Basketball Federation, accessed on May 3, 2019 .
  7. ↑ ING 3x3 German Championship Hamburg 2019. Retrieved on August 4, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Redakcja: Niemka Ama Degbeon w kolejnym sezonie zagra w Pszczółce Polski-Cukier AZS UMCS Lublin. May 20, 2019, accessed on October 23, 2019 (pl-PL).
personal data
SURNAME Degbeon, Ama
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin