Austen Rowland

Austen Rowland
Player information
birthday	30th July 1981 (age 39)
place of birth	Hyattsville , Maryland , United States
size	186 cm
position	Point guard
college	Lehigh
Clubs as active
1999–2002 Delaware Fightin 'Blue Hens ( NCAA ) 2003–2004 Lehigh Mountain Hawks (NCAA) 2004–2005 1. FC Kaiserslautern 2005–2006 Erdgas Baskets Jena 2006–2007 ratiopharm Ulm 2007–2008 TBB Trier 2009 BSC Raiffeisen Panthers Fürstenfeld 2009 LTi GIESSEN 46ers 2009–2010 ratiopharm Ulm 2010–2011 ESSM Le Portel 2011–2012 ALM Évreux Basket 2012–2013 SOM Boulogne-sur-Mer 2013–2014 BC Orchies 2014–2015 Lapuan Korikobrat 2015–2016 Kouvot Kouvola 2016 Lapuan Korikobrat 2016 SOM Boulogne- sur-Mer 2017 La Charite Basket 2017–2018 Etoile Charleville-Mezieres 2018–2019 La Charite Basket 2019–2020 Hamburg Towers ( Co ) 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000

Austen Rowland (born July 30, 1981 in Hyattsville , Maryland ) is a retired American basketball player and current coach. After studying in his home country, the development player was under contract as a professional at clubs in several European countries, including Austria  and Germany .

Career

Rowland moved to the University of Delaware in 1999 , where he played for the college team Fightin 'Blue Hens in the America East Conference of the first NCAA division. The Blue Hens , who had won this conference four times in the 1990s , lost the final in 2000 and 2001, respectively, and thus missed out on a participation in the prestigious NCAA nationwide finals . After the Blue Hens switched to the stronger Colonial Athletic Association in 2001 , Rowland's individual statistics stagnated and he moved to college again in 2002, which, according to the NCAA regulations, meant a year-long break from championship games. After three seasons for the Blue Hens , he was only allowed to complete one more, final fourth NCAA season for the Mountain Hawks of Lehigh University . With the Hawks he won the 2004 championship tournament of the Patriot League and thus the Hawks' first title success in this conference. After being named Player of the Year of the Patriot League, he was named MVP of the final tournament and received an Honorable Mention in the All-American rating by the Associated Press . In a qualifying game before the start of the NCAA finals, the Hawks had to contend with the Rattlers of Florida A&M University for the right to participate in the finals, but they lost the game by 15 points.

Rowland turned pro in 2004 after his final senior season. Despite his successful last college season, it was initially only enough for a contract with the team of 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the 2. Basketball Bundesliga 2004/05 . The relegation threatened in the preseason " Lauterer " improved to fourth place, which was the best placement after promotion to the group south in 2002. After Rowland first auditioned for the following season in Lithuania , he finally returned to Germany for the 2. Basketball Bundesliga 2005/06 and played for the league competitor Erdgas Baskets from Jena , which in second place in the final table barely rose to the highest missed the German league. For the following basketball league in 2006/07 Rowland was then taken under contract by the promoted ratiopharm from Ulm . The southern champion of the 2nd BBL achieved as a climber in the basketball Bundesliga in twelfth place an almost balanced record of 16 wins in 34 games. Rowland himself was the best assists this season in the top division with six assists per game, and with 18 assists he also held the best performance in a game. For the following season he moved to the more established league competitor TBB Trier. The Trierers, who had already been placed behind the Ulm team, failed almost completely in the 2007/08 basketball league and, being penultimate, they only achieved seven wins in 34 games. Only Rowland's former team from Jena, which had also previously been promoted to the first Bundesliga, was still behind the Trierers. While Trier still secured relegation in the first division by purchasing a wild card , Rowland left the club and initially also the Bundesliga.

In early January 2009, Rowland finally got a contract with the Austrian champions BSC Raiffeisen Panthers from Fürstenfeld , with which he was able to win the national cup competition. In the ÖBL 2008/09 it was enough for the defending champion in the end to reach the play-off semi- final series, in which he was eliminated against the eventual champions WBC Kraftwerk Wels . Rowland returned to Germany for the following season and got a contract with the 46ers from Giessen at the start of the 2009/10 basketball Bundesliga season . He ended this at the beginning of December after he had received a contract offer from his former club and league competitor from Ulm. With the Ulm team, who had reached the play-offs of the best eight teams for the first time after promotion in the previous season, after 13 wins of the season it was enough to reach 13th place in the final table. In the 2010/11 season Rowland then got a contract with the French second division club Étoile Sportive Saint-Michel from Le Portel on the Atlantic coast. With his team he reached the play-offs for promotion in eighth place, in which, however, they were eliminated in the first round. For the following season he got a contract with the league competitor ALM Basket from Évreux, also in northern France, which ended the season with the same result as Le Portel one season earlier. For the 2012/13 season, Rowland returned to the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region and this time achieved fourth place in the LNB Pro B with SOM Basket from Boulogne-sur-Mer . In the play-offs, however, from Rowland's point of view, they failed again in the quarter-finals on the eventual winner and promoted Antibes Sharks . For the 2013/14 season he moved to the second division promoted Orchésien BC from Orchies also in Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

This was followed by positions in the first Finnish league and the second and third division of France. In the 2016/17 season Rowland was assistant coach of the basketball team at Lehigh University, but then resumed his playing career. At the end of May 2019 he was introduced as the assistant coach of the German Bundesliga promoted Hamburg Towers and worked there with Mike Taylor , under whom he had once played in Ulm. After the end of the 2019/20 season, his contract in Hamburg, like Taylor's, was not extended.

Web links

• Austen Rowland - Orchies - Joueurs - Pro B - player profile on the websites of the French LNB ( French )
• easyCredit BBL - Austen Rowland - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• player profile: Austen Rowland - player profile at his player agency on court-side.com ( English )
• Austen Rowland Stats - Lehigh Mountain Hawks - College season stats on statsheet.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lehigh's Austen Rowland Named AP Honorable Mention All-America. (No longer available online.) Patriot League , March 24, 2004, archived from the original on November 4, 2013 ; accessed on November 2, 2013 (English, media info). 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. ↑ Austen Rowland as Williams replacement. Schoenen-Dunk.de, October 21, 2009, accessed on November 2, 2013 (Medien-Info LTi GIESSEN 46ers). 
3. ↑ https://lehighsports.com/coaches.aspx?path=mbball&rc=1938
4. ↑ https://basketball.eurobasket.com/player/Austen_Rowland/France/La-Charite-Basket-58/29537
5. ↑ http://www.hamburgtowers.de/austen-rowland-verstaeckt-trainerstab/
6. ↑ https://www.hamburg.de/nachrichten-hamburg/14116858/co-trainer-zapata- Follow-calles-zu-den-hamburg-towers /