Brett Eppehimer

Brett Eppehimer
Player information
Full name	Brett Roger Eppehimer
birthday	May 26, 1976 (44 years and 98 days)
place of birth	Pottstown (PA), USA
size	180 cm
position	Point guard
college	Lehigh
Clubs as active
1995–1999 Lehigh Mountain Hawks ( NCAA ) 1999 Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs ( USBL ) 1999–2000 SG Braunschweig 2000–2001 Tenerife CB 2001–2002 Kinder London Towers 2002–2003 Ilisiakos Athens 2003 CB Villa Los Barrios 2003–2004 Pallacanestro Messina 2005 Eurorida Scafati 2005 –2006 Polynorm Giants Bergen 00000 00000 00000

Brett Roger Eppehimer (born May 26, 1976 in Pottstown , Pennsylvania ) is a retired American basketball player . After studying in his home country, Eppehimer became a professional in Europe and took on the Italian citizenship, with which he fell under less restrictive immigration restrictions in European leagues because of the Bosman decision . After his debut season as a professional in the German basketball league 1999/2000 at SG Braunschweig, Eppehimer played in Spain , the United Kingdom , Greece and Italy before ending his active career in the Netherlands in 2006 . Brett Eppehimer has a three years younger brother Nick , who was also a professional basketball player in Europe.

Career

After finishing school, Eppehimer went to study at Lehigh University in Bethlehem (Pennsylvania) , where he played basketball for the Mountain Hawks in the NCAA Patriot League for four years from 1995 . The Mountain Hawks had a very weak sporting phase in the second half of the 1990s and won only one game of 27 season games in 1996/97. Two years later in 1999, at the end of Eppehimer's college career, they won six season games, but lost all twelve games against competitors from the Patriot League. Eppehimer, however, was one of the pillars of the unsuccessful team and, with 1,742 career points and 226 successful distance throws from behind the three-point line, is one of the best players in these categories in the history of the Mountain Hawks. Despite the unsuccessfulness of the Hawks, Eppehimer was able to earn a place in the selection of the five best players in the Conference in the "All-Patriot League First Team" in 1997/98. After finishing his studies in 1999, Eppehimer tried the regional club of the "summer league" United States Basketball League , the Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs, to recommend himself for a professional contract for a regular season.

For the 1999/2000 season Eppehimer then got a chance at the German first division club from Braunschweig as a professional newcomer. Although they only won ten games out of 26, the team was able to improve by one place to eighth place in the final table of the 1999/2000 Basketball Bundesliga . Eppehimer was the team's best assists with an average of five assists , but they were eliminated in the preliminary round of the play-offs for the championship against the ninth Brandt Hagen . Eppehimer then played in the second Spanish league LEB for the club from San Cristóbal de La Laguna on Tenerife . However, this only took eleventh place out of 16 teams. For the season 2001/02 Eppehimer then signed a contract in the British Basketball League with the Children's Towers from London . The team was also a participant in the ULEB Euroleague , which was introduced a year earlier and which had now finally replaced the previous European Cup competitions of FIBA Europe . In the highest European club competition, however, the British team had no chance and lost all fourteen preliminary round games of the ULEB Euroleague 2001/02 mostly clear. In the British championship they won the Southern Conference with the second best record of all teams in the BBL, but lost in the play-off semifinals against the Sheffield Sharks .

For the season 2002/03 Eppehimer hired in the Greek A2 Ethniki with Ilisiakos from Athens . The team reached third place in the table at the end of the season, but was able to move up to the top division because the table runner-up withdrew for economic reasons. Eppehimer played at the end of the season for the Spanish second division club from Los Barrios , who, however, missed the play-offs for promotion in tenth place in the table, in which his former club from Tenerife achieved promotion to the top division. In the following 2003/04 season, Eppehimer played for the first time in his adopted country of Italy, with whose citizenship he had previously played in other European leagues. In the 2003/04 season he played in Sicily for the team from Messina in the Lega Basket Serie A . However, the climber was largely overwhelmed by sport and only won eight of 34 season games. As the bottom of the table, you had to stop your professional game even after the end of the season. In the 2004/05 season Eppehimer then had an engagement in the second league Legadue for the team from Scafati from January 2005 , which was eliminated in the promotion play-offs in the semifinals against Virtus Bologna . Most recently Eppehimer played in the 2005/06 season in the first Dutch league FEB for the Polynorm Giants from Bergen op Zoom , who ended the season as penultimate.

Web links

• EPPEHEIMER, BRETT - player profile on the ULEB website ( English )
• Brett Eppehimer (SG Braunschweig) - player profile on the statistics pages of the basketball leagues
• Legabasket: Brett Eppeheimer - player profile on the websites of the Serie A ( Italian )
• FEB: Eppehimer, Brett Roger - Profile on the website of the Federación Española de Baloncesto ( Spanish )

Individual evidence

1. ^ NN: Lehigh Men's Basketball Record Book. On: Lehigh Sports website; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, November 20, 2013. Retrieved February 11, 2019.
2. ↑ 2001–02 BBL Championship & Playoffs. British Basketball League , accessed on June 22, 2013 (English, playing time overview). 
3. ↑ Legaduebasket: Brett Eppehimer. Legadue , accessed June 22, 2013 (Italian, player statistics). 
4. ↑ Statistics from the 2000/01 season are missing, see: FEB: LEB 2000/2001: Tenerife CB - Estadísticas. Federación Española de Baloncesto , accessed on June 22, 2013 (Spanish, team statistics, see players with first name Brett without last name).