Bernhard Peat

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Bernhard Peat (born July 1, 1956 ) is a former German - American basketball player .

Life

Peat came to the United States from his native Germany at the age of eight and grew up in Auburn , California . By 1974 he practiced basketball, American football and athletics at the local Placer High School . He has long been considered the best athlete the school has ever produced. In 2015 he was inducted into the Sports Hall of Fame at Placer High School. After leaving school in 1974, he practiced these three sports at Sierra College. He then went to the University of California , but did not make the jump to the basketball team due to knee problems. In 1979 he completed his sports studies there.

He went to Germany and played in the 1980/81 season for Bundesliga club BG DEK / Fichte Hagen, but missed relegation with the team in the highest German league. Peat stayed in the Bundesliga by moving to MTV 1846 Giessen . He stayed with Central Hesse for two years and moved to USC Bayreuth in 1983 within the league . Later Peat also played for SSV Ulm , with whom he made promotion to the Bundesliga in 1988, and where he was the favorite of the supporters. Later stations were Chemnitz and SV Oberelchingen .

Peat, who played temporarily for Lucerne in Switzerland during his career that lasted until 1996, scored a total of 1832 points in the Bundesliga.

He went back to the USA, he remained loyal to basketball, among other things as a coach of the girls' team at Placer High School.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Long-time vet Bernhard Peat: "European basketball is more pure basketball" - BallinEurope . In: BallinEurope . October 13, 2011 ( ballineurope.com [accessed November 12, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Joe Davidson: 'Violent, mean, ruthless': What Vanderdoes learned at Placer paying off with Raiders . In: The Sacramento Bee . August 11, 2017, ISSN  0890-5738 ( sacbee.com [accessed November 12, 2018]).
  3. ↑ 2015 Inductees - Placer High School Athletic Hall of Fame. Retrieved November 12, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Built to last . In: Auburn Journal . ( auburnjournal.com [accessed November 12, 2018]).
  5. ↑ a b Bernhard Peat plays by the golden rule . In: Auburn Journal . ( auburnjournal.com [accessed November 12, 2018]).
  6. ↑ About us / this is how it all started . In: BG HAGEN. ( bghagen.de [accessed on November 12, 2018]).
  7. ↑ GIESSEN 46ers | "Rice" Presley is back in Giessen - GIESSEN 46ers. Retrieved November 12, 2018 .
  8. ↑ GIESSEN 46ers | Neumann ejection + Koch debut - GIESSEN 46ers. Retrieved November 12, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Stefan Kümmritz: Flying high began with Spiridon and Hosefelder . In: Augsburger Allgemeine . ( augsburger-allgemeine.de [accessed on November 12, 2018]).
  10. ^ Swabian - The regional news portal in Baden-Württemberg . In: Swabian . ( schwaebische.de [accessed on November 12, 2018]).
  11. ↑ 1992-1993. Retrieved November 12, 2018 .
  12. ↑ The 200 best basket hunters in the Bundesliga since 1975 . In: Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (Ed.): 50 Years of the Basketball Bundesliga . Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-7307-0242-0 , pp. 213 .
  13. ↑ Auburn Elite girls basketball team holding tryouts for fall season . In: The Loomis News . ( theloomisnews.com [accessed November 12, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Peat, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1956