Chester Simmons

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Basketball player
Tre Simmons
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Player information
Full name Chester Simmons III
Nickname Tre
birthday July 24, 1982 (38 years 38 days)
place of birth Seattle , Washington , United States
size 198 cm
position Shooting Guard / Small Forward
college Washington
Club information
society Krasnye Krylja Samara
league VTB
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2001–2002 Odessa Wranglers (NJCAA) 2002–2003 Green River Gators (NWAACC) 2003–2005 Washington Huskies ( NCAA ) 2005–2006 PAOK Thessaloniki 2006 CB Gran Canaria 2006–2007 Hapoel Galil Elyon 2007–2008 Hapoel Holon 2008–2009 Maccabi Tel Aviv 2009–2010 Hapoel Jerusalem 2010–2012 ČEZ Basketball Nymburk 2012–2013 Krasnye Krylja Samara Since 2013 ČEZ Basketball Nymburk United StatesUnited States
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Chester "Tre" Simmons III (born July 24, 1982 in Seattle , Washington ) is a professional American basketball player . During his professional career, Simmons was particularly active in Israel between 2006 and 2010 , where he won two consecutive national championships with Hapoel Holon in 2008 and Maccabi Tel Aviv in 2009. He has been active for ČEZ Basketball Nymburk since the 2010/11 season , with whom he won the Czech championship and cup double in 2011 .

Career

college

After finishing his education at James A. Garfield High School in his hometown, Simmons went to study at the Odessa Junior College in Odessa, Texas in 2001 . This junior college places great value on its sports teams and is proud that well-known NBA players like Larry Johnson began their college careers at this college. After a year, Simmons returned to his native US state and studied for a year at Green River Community College in Auburn, Washington , before moving to the University of Washington , where he worked for the Huskies college team in the NCAA's Pacific-12 Conference Division I played. The greatest success was reaching the last sixteen Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship in his final senior season in 2005.

Club career

After Chester Simmons was not selected in the Entry Draft of the NBA, he began his professional career in the top Greek league A1 Ethniki at PAOK from Thessaloniki . For the 2006/07 season he moved to the Spanish ACB league for the Gran Canaria basketball club . After a few games, he left this club and moved to the Israeli basketball league Ligat ha'Al , initially to Hapoel Galil Elyon. Hapoel Galil Elyon was the Israeli champion in 1993, making it the only Israeli club that was able to interrupt a series of championships for Maccabi Tel Aviv that had been going on since 1970. For the 2007/08 season he moved to Hapoel from Holon , with whom he actually surprisingly won the championship against Maccabi Tel Aviv in 2008 together with, among others, PJ Tucker and ended their winning streak in the Israeli championship. In the following season he was obliged by the dethroned series champion and was able to win back the national championship with this. In the national cup competition, however, they dropped out early, while his ex-club Hapoel won this competition for the first time. In the highest European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2008/09 , Maccabi missed this round for the first time since the introduction of the quarter-final play-offs and was eliminated in the second group stage of the sixteen best teams. In the following season 2009/10 he started for Hapoel from Jerusalem . In the Final Four tournament of the Israeli championship, they lost the semi-final against their ex-club Hapoel Galil Elyon, which had now merged with Hapoel Gilboa and later also won the championship final against Maccabi Tel Aviv. In the second most important European club competition, Eurocup 2009/10 , they lost the quarter-finals against the eventual finalist Alba Berlin and missed entry into the final four of this competition.

Since the 2010/11 season, Simmons has been playing basketball for the Czech series champion ČEZ from Nymburk . After Nymburk had surprisingly also reached the quarter-finals in the Eurocup in the previous season, they remained without a win in the Eurocup 2010/11 in the second group stage and were eliminated. In the 2011/12 season, ČEZ Nymburk will also take part in the Eastern European VTB United League 2011/12 due to the lack of challenges in the national championship . In the Eurocup 2011/12 Nymburk reached the quarter-finals this time with Simmons, where they were eliminated again, while they just missed the play-offs in the VTB League . In the Czech Republic they remained largely unchallenged and won the championship again. Simmons himself was supposed to move to EA7 Milano in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A in mid-April , but the club finally withdrew from the commitment despite a change that had already been announced. For the 2012/13 season, Simmons signed a contract with the Russian club Krasnye Krylja from Samara , with whom he won the EuroChallenge 2012/13 and was named " Most Valuable Player " (MVP) of the final tournament.

Awards and Achievements

With the team

Personal awards

  • MVP of the month December in the 2011–2012 season in the VTB
  • MVP final tournament EuroChallenge 2012/13

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NN: OC Wranglers Athletic Success. ( February 25, 2012 memento on Internet Archive ) Archived from Odessa College Athletics Official — Website; Odessa, TX, undated before 2012. Retrieved February 27, 2019 (in English).
  2. ^ Basketball - Men's Sports - Green River Athletics: Introduction. Green River Community College, accessed July 10, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Olimpia Milano officially gives up on Chester Tre Simmons. sportando.net, April 17, 2012, accessed on June 5, 2012 (English, report on an Italian sports information exchange).
personal data
SURNAME Simmons, Chester
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simmons, Tre; Simmons, Chester III
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle , Washington, USA