Earl Jerrod Rowland

Earl Rowland
Player information
Full name	Earl Jerrod Rowland
Nickname	EJ, Eazy
birthday	May 18, 1983 (37 years 105 days)
place of birth	Salinas (California) , USA
size	191 cm
position	Point Guard / Shooting Guard
college	St. Mary's (CA)
Club information
society	Banvit BK
league	Türkiye Basketbol Ligi
Clubs as active
2003–2005 Saint Mary's Gaels ( NCAA ) 2005–2006 Florida Flame 2006–2007 Townsville Crocodiles 2007 BK Barons Rīga 2007–2008 Artland Dragons 2008–2009 Telekom Baskets Bonn 2009–2011 Triboldi Cremona 2011–2012 Unicaja Málaga 2012–2013 BK VEF Rīga 2013–2015 Banvit BK 2015–2016 Hapoel Jerusalem Since 2016 BK Chimki 00000 00
National team
Since 2009 00	Bulgaria

Earl Jerrod Rowland (born May 18, 1983 in Salinas (California) , USA ) is an American basketball player with Bulgarian citizenship.

Career

The 1.91 m tall and 92 kg heavy point guard began his studies at the CSU Dominguez Hills , for whose college team Toros he played in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II. After a year he returned to Salinas , where he had also gone to high school, and was enrolled at the Hartnell Community College there. In 2003 he moved to Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California, and played for the Gaels in Division I of the NCAA. In his senior year 2005, the Gaels were able to qualify for the national final of the NCAA for the first time after a break of several years , in which, however, they were eliminated in the first round.

After finishing his studies in 2005 Rowland played a year in the NBA Development League for the Florida Flame , whose franchise was discontinued at the end of the season. For the 2006/07 season he moved to Australia to the Crocodiles from Townsville . After the end of the season he went to the Barons LMT Rīga in Latvia .

For the 2007/2008 season Rowland moved to the Artland Dragons in Germany, with whom he was able to win the German Cup in 2008 . In summer 2008 he then signed a contract with runner-up Telekom Baskets Bonn for the 2008/2009 season. Thanks to his height and his strong physique, Rowland developed into one of the best point guards in the basketball league in the 2008/2009 season and knew how to convince with both decisive points and strong defense. Rowland played a key role in the fact that Telekom Baskets Bonn could reach a playoff final for the fifth time, and he was also able to improve his individual statistics.

Due to his good performance in Bonn, clubs from abroad also became aware of Rowland and so Rowland signed a contract with Soresina in Italy for the 2009/2010 season. After two years, Rowland moved to Spain to Unicaja Málaga . After one season he moved back to the Latvian Riga for the 2012/13 season, where he played for champions VEF.

After a season in Riga, however, he did not receive a new contract and moved to Turkey to first division club Banvit BK .

successes

• 2008 German cup winner with the Artland Dragons Quakenbrück
• 2009 German Vice Cup winner with the Telekom Baskets Bonn
• 2009 German runner-up with the Telekom Baskets Bonn
• 2009 Appointment to the national team of Bulgaria

Personal awards

• 2012 MVP of the month December of the VTB United League for VEF
• 2012/13 MVP of the regular season of the VTB United League for VEF

National team

Rowland has been a citizen of Bulgaria since his naturalization in August 2009. At the Eurobasket 2009 in Poland he scored an average of 17.7 points, 3.0 rebounds and 3.0 assists, but could not prevent Bulgaria from being eliminated in the preliminary round.

Web links

• Rowland, Earl - Player profile on the sides of the ULEB (English)
• Players - Earl Rowland (BUL). archive.fiba.com - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)
• Earl Rowland (Telekom Baskets Bonn) - player profile on statistics pages of the basketball leagues (as of 2009)
• EJ Rowland Stats - Saint Mary's Gaels NCAA Div I College Playtime Stats

Individual evidence

1. ^ EJ Rowland. Real GM, accessed July 3, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Legabasket: Earl Jerrod Rowland. Lega Basket Serie A , accessed on July 26, 2012 (Italian, player profile on statistics pages). 
3. ↑ ACB.COM: EJ Rowland. Liga ACB , accessed July 26, 2012 (Spanish, player profile). 
4. ↑ VEF RIGA lands Rowland. (No longer available online.) ULEB Eurocup , July 25, 2012, archived from the original on July 28, 2012 ; accessed on July 26, 2012 (English). 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.  
5. ^ Banvit tabs playmaker Rowland. (No longer available online.) ULEB , July 5, 2013, archived from the original on July 9, 2013 ; accessed on July 5, 2013 . 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.