Daren Queenan

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Daren L. Queenan (born October 19,  1966 in Norristown ) is a former American - Belgian basketball player .

career

Queenan, a 1.94 meter winger, was on Lehigh University's squad from 1984 to 1988 . He scored 2703 points, which was an average of 22.9 per encounter. Queenan graduated as the best scorer in the history of Lehigh University. His 1095 rebounds were also the highest. With 49 points in one game (scored on March 7, 1987) he set another record for the college team. With an average of 28.4 points per encounter, he was the second best scorer in the first NCAA division in the 1987/88 season . In 1997, Queenan was inducted into the Lehigh University Sports Hall of Fame .

Queenan began his career as a professional basketball player with the Philadelphia Aces team in the United States Basketball League (USBL) in the 1988 summer season . Then he played until 1991 for different teams in another US league, the Continental Basketball Association  (CBA). In doing so, as at university level, he proved his strengths as a player with a great urge to basket: In the 1988/89 season he scored 24.7 points per game for the Charleston Gunners in the CBA. 1989/90 he played in the CBA first for the Rapid City Thrillers, then for the Albany Patroons and then in the Philippines . In the CBA game year 1990/91, Queenan scored an average of 22.3 points per use in the colors of the LaCrosse Catbirds. The hoped-for jump into the NBA did not succeed: He trained with the Houston Rockets and Detroit Pistons as a trial, but received no contract in each case.

After a trip to Argentina , Queenan was under contract with the French second division club ALM Évreux in the 1991/92 season, where she achieved averages of 25.6 points and 6.3 rebounds per game.

In the run-up to the 1992/93 season he moved to Belgium  to the first division club BBC Aalst and stayed there until 1999. Queenan also made a name for himself in Aalst as a strong offensive player and, in addition to appearing in the Belgian league, also gained experience at European level. Also in the European Cup Korać Cup he scored points of more than 20 per match for Aalst. He took Belgian citizenship.

In the 1999/2000 season he was under contract with Apollon Patras in Greece , where he played for the German coach Dirk Bauermann . He brought him to Brandt Hagen for the 2000/01 season . Queenan, whose strengths included the jump shot from dribbling and the three-point throw, was the best Hagen scorer with 21.5 points per match during the 2000/01 Bundesliga season.

Queenan moved to Cáceres CB in the Spanish ACB league in 2001 , scored an average of 9.9 points for the team in 13 appearances and went to Joventut da Badalona within the league during the 2001/02 season (9 games: 2.7 points / Commitment).

After his gaming career ended, he returned to the United States and worked in finance.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Daren L. Queenan | Korac Cup (1999) | FIBA Europe. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  2. ↑ https://static.lehighsports.com/custompages/Record%20Books/Men's%20Basketball/Men's%20Basketball%20Record%20Book_Updated%20July%202019.pdf?_ga=2.130726351.1973622541.1595760530-1238663532.1559043636
  3. ↑ Daren Queenan (1997) - Roger S. Penske / Lehigh Athletics Hall of Fame. Retrieved July 26, 2020 (English).
  4. ↑ https://www.mcall.com/mc-xpm-1988-05-19-2629909-story.html
  5. ↑ Daren Queenan Statistics on StatsCrew.com. Retrieved July 26, 2020 (English).
  6. ↑ a b c d Daren Queenan: TRAYECTORIA Y LOGROS. In: ACB. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Distrito's iconic shot, Purefoods 'first title make list of memorable' 90s finals. April 3, 2020, accessed on July 26, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b ANDRE WILLIAMS: FIT, ABLE, KNOWN AND GOING TO THE 'DAWGS * DAREN QUEENAN, A LEHIGH ACE A DECADE AGO AND A PRO IN EUROPE, WILL HOLD COURT AT STABLER. In: The Morning Call. Retrieved July 26, 2020 (American English).
  9. ↑ QUEENAN Darren | LNB.fr. Retrieved July 26, 2020 (French).
  10. ↑ Joaquin M. Henson: To naturalize or not? Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  11. ↑ RP ONLINE: According to the new interpretation of the foreigner regulation: The withdrawals and additions of the basketball league. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Thomas Marotzke: From Breaux to Wriedt . In: Deutscher Basketball Bund eV (Hrsg.): Special issue s.Oliver BBL season 2000/2001 . DSV Deutscher Sportverlag GmbH, Cologne 2000, p. 26 .
  13. ↑ Brandt Hagen 2000/2001. In: Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Daren Queenan: TEMPORADA A TEMPORADA. In: ACB. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Josh Folck: Catching Up With: Lehigh men's basketball all-time leading scorer Daren Queenan. June 18, 2012, accessed July 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Queenan, Daren
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Queenan, Daren L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Belgian basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Norristown, Pennsylvania