Brad Loesing

Brad Loesing
Loesing in 2012
Player information
birthday	9th October 1989 (age 30)
place of birth	Cincinnati , Ohio , United States
size	183 cm
position	Point guard
college	Wofford
Club information
society	Rostock Seawolves
league	2nd Bundesliga ProA
Jersey number	35
Clubs as active
2008–2012 Wofford Terriers ( NCAA ) 2012–2013 Pécs VSK Panthers 2014–2015 Oettinger Rockets Gotha 2015–2017 MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg 2017–2018 EWE Baskets Oldenburg 2018–2019 S.Oliver Würzburg 2019–2020 Science City Jena Since 2020 Rostock Seawolves 0

Brad Loesing (born October 9, 1989 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) is an American - German basketball player . He has been playing for the second division Jena since 2019. After studying in his native country, Loesing became a professional player in Europe in 2012. Here, because of his German descent, he successfully applied for a German citizenship so that he fell under less strict conditions for playing eligibility. After a season in Hungary , he could not fulfill his contract in the Netherlands because of a torn cruciate ligament . In 2014 he was signed by the German first division club MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg, who loaned him to the Oettinger Rockets Gotha, where he made his return in the second division ProA 2014/15 .

Career

Loesing went to school in Norwood and Cincinnati and then moved to study beyond the Appalachians at Wofford College in Spartanburg , South Carolina . Here he became a member of the Terriers college team in the Southern Conference (SoCon) of the NCAA , for which he played for four years until 2012. With the Terriers, in the first NCAA division since 1998, he won the SoCon championship tournament for the first time in 2010 and was able to defend the title in 2011. Without graduates Noah Dahlman and Jamar Diggs, who had signed a professional contract with the German second division club Paderborn Baskets , they lost in the first round of the 2012 final tournament, which is why they also missed a new qualification for the national NCAA finals , which only the Winner of the final tournament was reserved. In the two previous first-time appearances of the Terriers in the finals of the first division, they had lost their own opening game. Loesing had received the SoCon best defender award in his senior year and set several records for the Terriers in their Division I time. He was a starter in 130 of his 132 NCAA missions and, as of 2015, was one of the top five of the Terriers' all-time best list for basket templates and templates per game.

Loesing got his first professional contract in 2012 with the Hungarian first division club VSK Panthers in Pécs . The team was able to secure the last remaining starting place for the final round of the championship at the end of the season, in which they had to admit defeat in the first round after two own victories only in five games to the main round first and later title winner Albacomp Fehérvár . For the following season Loesing signed a contract with Landstede Zwolle in the Netherlands, but in a preparatory game he suffered a cruciate ligament rupture , so that he was ultimately out the whole season and did not play in the Dutch Basketball League . The German-born Loesing had successfully tried to obtain German citizenship, so that after the Bosman decision, he would be subject to less strict operational privileges in Europe as an EU "national" . After recovering from his injury, he got a two-year contract in Germany with the first division club MHP Riesen from Ludwigsburg for the 2014/15 season , which however made use of the contractual option and loaned Loesing to the Oettinger Rockets from Gotha in the first year so that he could join the second division in the ProA 2014/15 would get enough match practice after his injury break. Under coach Chris Ensminger , Loesing then achieved more than 25 minutes of playing time per game, in which he helped his team to fifth place in the main round with just under eleven points and three assists per game, the team's best ever placement at the time. In the inner Thuringian duel in the first play-off round, Science City Jena was defeated and in the semi-final series, which was decisive for promotion, they were largely able to stand up to the first division relegated s.Oliver Baskets from Würzburg, who had previously dominated the main round . Ultimately, however, they had to admit defeat in four games, but Loesing still managed to move up to the top German league when he returned to Ludwigsburg. In addition to the basketball Bundesliga 2015/16, he also played in the European club competition Eurocup 2015/16 , in which the Ludwigsburg team moved up, also for the first time in an international competition.

In the summer of 2017 he moved to the EWE Baskets Oldenburg within the Bundesliga . With an average playing time of 11:15 minutes per Bundesliga game and 3.6 points per encounter, he remained a supplementary player for the Lower Saxony. Loesing left Oldenburg after a year and switched to Bundesliga competitor S.Oliver Würzburg . Here, too, he did not make the leap to the top performers, but in the 2018/19 game year he did a decent job with limited playing time (13:38 minutes per match), in which he prepared an average of two basket wins for his team per game and 3.4 points posted.

In the summer break of 2019, Loesing accepted a contract offer from the Bundesliga relegated Science City Jena and moved on to league rivals Rostock Seawolves after a year  .

Web links

• easyCredit BBL - Brad Loesing - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• LÖSING, BRAD - Player profile on the website of the Eurocup Basketball ( English )
• Wofford College Athletics - Brad Loesing - player profile at Wofford College (2011)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Men's Basketball All-Conference Honors Announced. Southern Conference , February 28, 2012, accessed November 15, 2015 (English, media info). 
2. ↑ Wofford (Men's) Basketball 2015-16 Media Guide. (Flash-animated PDF) Wofford College , pp. 90, 91 (internal count) , accessed on November 15, 2015 (English). 
3. ↑ Ludwigsburg signs Brad Loesing. Spox.com , July 7, 2014, accessed November 15, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Player: Brad Lösing. 2. Basketball Bundesliga , accessed on November 15, 2015 (player statistics / selection of the relevant season). 
5. ↑ Oliver Hahn: Loesing is looking forward to Ludwigsburg. Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung , May 21, 2015, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on November 15, 2015 . 
6. ↑ https://www.mhp-riesen-ludwigsburg.de/brad-loesing-wechselelt-nach-oldenburg/  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ http://www.easycredit-bbl.de/de/easycredit-bbl/historie/teams/t/2017-2018/430-old/
8. ↑ https://www.soliver-wuerzburg.de/news/newsdetails/jahr/2018/juni/meldung/nach-ludwigsburg-und-oldenburg-jetzt-wuerzburg/?tx_ttnews%5Bday%5D=04&cHash=0801574dcc5e5b4e060543f711dcfc8
9. ↑ https://www.easycredit-bbl.de/de/statistiken/player/portraits/p/31667-brad-loesing/
10. ↑ Desired candidate Loesing the ideal solution - Terrier with first division experience moves to Jena. Retrieved July 19, 2019 . 
11. ↑ https://www.2basketballbundesliga.de/seawolves-verpflichten-routinier-brad-loesing/