Dave Esterkamp
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| Full name | David John Esterkamp | |
| birthday | March 28, 1978 | |
| place of birth | Cincinnati (OH), USA | |
| size | 200 cm | |
| position |
Small forward / power forward |
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| college | Bowling Green State | |
| Clubs as active | ||
| 1996-2000 |
 Bowling Green Falcons ( NCAA )
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| 2000-2001 |
 Fos Ouest Provence Basket
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| 2001-2002 |
 FC Schalke 04
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| 2002-2003 |
 Kapfenberg Bears
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| 2003 |
WBC catfish
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| 2003-2004 |
Kapfenberg Bulls
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| 2004 |
FC Mulhouse Basket
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| 2004–2012 |
 Friborg Olympic
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David John "Dave" Esterkamp (born March 28, 1978 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) is a retired American basketball player . After studying in his home country, Esterkamp became a professional in Europe. In addition to stations in France , Esterkamp played mainly in Austria , where he was twice Austrian champion with the Kapfenberg Bulls , as well as eight years for Friborg Olympic in Switzerland , with which he was also twice national champion , one of them in connection with victory in the Cup Competition as a double . His brother Steven Esterkamp , who was three years younger than him, played for a long time in the top German division basketball Bundesliga .
Career
After winning the Ohio State Championship with the basketball team of La Salle High School in his hometown of Cincinnati, Esterkamp went to study at Bowling Green State University in 1996 in the same town in the same state. With the college team Falcons Esterkamp played in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) of the NCAA Division I. In his first season, the Falcons got an invitation to the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) at the end of the season , in which they lost in the first round. In his last year 2000 he won the East Division of the MAC together with the later BBL player Seth Doliboa from Frankfurt , but in the championship tournament of the MAC they lost in the first round as well as in the NIT.
After finishing his studies, Esterkamp went to France in 2000 and played in the lower class in Fos-sur-Mer in the south of France . He then moved to FC Schalke 04 in the regional league . In 2002 he played professionally for the Austrian champions Bears from Kapfenberg in the ÖBL 2002/03 , in which the title could be defended. In the following season, the Bulls, renamed for sponsorship reasons, brought back Esterkamp from their league competitor from Wels and were able to win the championship again at the end of the ÖBL 2003/04 . At the start of the 2004/05 season then Esterkamp got a one-month contract with the Alsatian second division Mulhouse Basket in the French LNB Pro B . After this contract was not extended at the end of November 2004, Esterkamp went to Switzerland .
At the end of 2004 Esterkamp got a contract with the Swiss first division team Benetton Olympic from Freiburg im Üechtland in the basketball national league division A. In the FIBA Europe Cup 2004/05 they reached the quarter-final play-offs , in which they played against Banvit , as fourth in the central division BK left. In the 2006/07 season they won the championship for the Swiss record champions for the first time since 1999 and thus achieved the double after they had already won the cup. After he had already participated in the ULEB Cup with Kapfenberg in 2003/04 and had no chance of winning ten games with this team, Benetton Olympic achieved three preliminary round victories in ten games in the 2007/08 ULEB Cup , but they were not enough to advance . At the end of the season it was enough for another championship in 2008. In 2009, the defending champions lost the semi-final series of the championship play-offs against the Lugano Tigers in just five games, which was also unavoidable in the following years. Twice they lost the final series of the championship in four games and in 2012 finally the semi-final series in five games against the series champions. At the end of the 2011/12 season, Esterkamp wanted to " hang on " for another year as the team's "top scorer", but the club made a different decision and Esterkamp ended his career.
Web links
- Esterkamp, David - Player profile on the website of the ULEB (English)
- David John Esterkamp | FIBA Europe Cup 2005 - Statistics from European Cup competitions of FIBA Europe (English)
- Dave Esterkamp Stats - Bowling Green Falcons - 1997 college stats on statsheet.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Basketball: Traiskirchen obliges old friends - derStandard.at. December 28, 2002, accessed March 18, 2020 .
- ↑ Dave Esterkamp - Mulhouse - Joueurs - Pro B. (No longer available online.) Ligue Nationale de Basket , archived from the original on March 13, 2016 ; accessed on April 14, 2013 (French, player profile). 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.
- ↑ Frank Stettler: Where on the way, Olympic? Freiburger Nachrichten , May 5, 2012, accessed April 14, 2013 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Esterkamp, Dave |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Esterkamp, David John (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cincinnati , Ohio |