Elijah Clarance

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Basketball player
Elijah Clarance
Player information
birthday July 3, 1998 (22 years and 60 days)
place of birth Malmo , Sweden
size 195 cm
position Guard
Clubs as active
until 2014 SwedenSweden Malbas
2014-2017 United StatesUnited States Goretti High School
2017-2018 United StatesUnited States Illinois State Univ.
since 2018 GermanyGermany Skyliners Frankfurt
since 2019 → New Heroes Den BoschNetherlandsNetherlands

Elijah Clarance (born July 3, 1998 in Malmö ) is a Swedish basketball player .

career

Clarance grew up in the Malmö district of Nydala, a social hotspot. In February 2019, Clarance looked back on his childhood and youth that basketball had saved him from going the wrong way. He played in the youth division of the Malbas basketball club and then from 2014 to 2017 at St. Maria Goretti High School in the city of Hagerstown in the US state of Maryland . In the 2017/18 season, the left-hander played for the college team of Illinois State University in the USA and averaged 2.7 points per encounter in 21 games.

At the U20 European Championships in the summer of 2018, Clarance excelled as the tournament's best scorer (22.4 points / game), then decided to leave Illinois State University and switch to professional life. With his performances at the U20 European Championship, the Swede aroused the interest of Gordon Herbert , the head coach of the Bundesliga club Skyliners Frankfurt at the time , who brought him to the Main . There Clarance became part of the Bundesliga squad as well as the second team in the 2nd Bundesliga ProB . In February 2019 he played his first full international match for Sweden.

At the beginning of the 2019/20 season, the Frankfurt team awarded him to the Dutch first division club New Heroes Den Bosch for one year .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Basketen blev hans räddning. February 25, 2019, accessed June 29, 2019 (Swedish).
  2. ↑ Malbas BBK Mr. U17 | laget.se. Retrieved June 29, 2019 (Swedish).
  3. ↑ Exclusive interview with 2019 draft-eligible prospect Elijah Clarance . In: Sportando . ( sportando.basketball [accessed June 29, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Elijah Clarance - Men's Basketball. Retrieved June 29, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Players statistics of the FIBA ​​U20 European Championship 2018. Accessed on June 29, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Elijah Clarance to Turn Professional. Retrieved June 29, 2019 .
  7. ↑ FRAPORT SKYLINERS sign Swedish top talent Elijah Clarance. Retrieved June 29, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Sveriges Radio: Clarance debuterade i hemstaden: ”Riktigt najs” - radio sports. Retrieved June 29, 2019 (Swedish).
  9. ↑ https://www.fraport-skyliners.de/news-service/details/elijah-clarance-wird-fuer-eine-saison-an-den-bosch-ausgeliehen/


personal data
SURNAME Clarance, Elijah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clarance, Elijah Marcus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Malmo