Casey Schmidt

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Casey William Schmidt (born September 30, 1970 in Cook ) is a former American - German basketball player .

career

Schmidt played from 1989 to 1991 from the University of Arizona in the first division of the NCAA , but remained there as a supplementary player: In 54 missions he averaged 2.4 points. The 1.97-meter-tall winger moved to Valparaiso University , but initially had to suspend the 1991/92 season due to transfer regulations and then attracted the attention of the college team from the US state of Indiana, in particular because of his accuracy in the three-point throw. He played 52 times for Valparaiso and scored 116 “threes” in 283 attempts (success rate: 41 percent) and an average of 17.5 points per encounter. Schmidt was also convincing at the free throw line and made 145 of his 159 attempts, i.e. 91.2 percent of his throws. In the 1993/94 season he was appointed to the team of the year of the Mid-Continent Conference after he had won the championship title in this league with Valparaiso. In addition, Schmidt received the Valparaiso University Athlete of the Year award in his senior year.

Schmidt embarked on a professional career that led him to Europe. In the 1994/95 season he played for the LainERS club in the Latvian capital Riga and was also known there under the form of his name, Keisijs Šmits, which was adapted to the Latvian language. In the 1995/96 season he was under contract with the Swiss club Genève-Versoix Basket and in 1996 moved to the basketball league in Germany . There Schmidt strengthened the MTV Giessen . He also competed in the European Cup with Mittelhessen. In the five missions with Giessen on the international stage, Schmidt recorded an average of 14.6 points.

After a year in the Bundesliga, Schmidt moved on to France , where he worked for Elan Chalon in the first division, the ProA . He scored an average of 8.5 points for the team. Schmidt moved to the Italian top club Benetton Treviso for the 1998/99 season and won the European club competition Saporta Cup with the team . This was followed in the 1999/2000 season by an engagement with the Italian second division club Pozzuoli, in December 1999 first division Verona brought him, where he stayed until 2001 and also played in the EuroLeague , where he scored twelve games for Verona during the 2000/01 season on average 9.5 points.

At the beginning of the 2001/02 season Schmidt was without a club, in December 2001 he was signed by the Greek first division club Dafni Athens before he went to Spain to join Pamesa Valencia in the country's top division, the ACB league , the following month . With Valencia, Schmidt reached the final in the Saporta Cup. In the Spanish league he remained a supplementary player in Valencia with a point average of 1.5 per encounter in 17 games. With the beginning of the 2002/03 season he strengthened another Spanish first division club, Ricoh Manresa . In 25 games he averaged 10.4 points there.

Schmidt returned to Italy and joined the first division club Pompea Napoli, for whom he ran up in the 2003/04 season. During the series A point round, he came up with an average of 4.5 points per use. He stayed there for one season and then moved to Ricoh Manresa in Spain for a second time in December 2004, but due to an injury his engagement ended in January 2005 after tearing a cruciate ligament in his right knee at the end of 2004 and therefore had to undergo an operation .

Schmidt went back to the United States after the end of his playing days and worked as a co-owner of a roofing company in Hattiesburg , Mississippi .

In 2008 Schmidt was inducted into the Hall of Fame at Valparaiso University.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Casey William Schmidt | Korac Cup (1997) | FIBA Europe. Retrieved January 21, 2019 .
  2. ^ Casey Schmidt College Stats. Retrieved January 21, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Hall of Fame Members | Official Website of Valpo Athletics. Retrieved January 21, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Reinis Lācis: Inovatīvais club "LainERS" apkārt basketbola laukumam. December 21, 2017, accessed January 21, 2019 (Latvian).
  5. ↑ a b Casey SCHMIDT. In: Elan Chalon. Retrieved January 21, 2019 .
  6. ↑ La Pompea Napoli ingaggia Casey Schmidt. Retrieved January 21, 2019 (Italian).
  7. ↑ ACB.COM: Casey Schmidt. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 15, 2013 ; accessed on January 21, 2019 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.acb.com
  8. ↑ SCHMIDT, CASEY - Welcome to EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL. Retrieved January 21, 2019 .
  9. ^ Casey Schmidt Europe Stats. Retrieved January 21, 2019 .
  10. ↑ ACB.COM. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 21, 2019 ; accessed on January 21, 2019 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.acb.com
  11. ↑ LEGABASKET SERIE A LEGABASKET SERIE A. Accessed January 21, 2019 .
  12. ↑ ACB.COM - Casey Schmidt, estará between 6 and 8 meses de baja por culpa de una lesión. Retrieved January 21, 2019 .
  13. ↑ ACB.COM - Casey Schmidt será intervenido la próxima semana. Retrieved January 21, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Mike Nieto mike.nieto@nwi.com, (219) 933-3232: Where Are They Now? Casey Schmidt. Retrieved January 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Casey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Casey William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH cook