Jarvis Walker

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Basketball player
Jarvis Walker
Player information
Full name Jarvis Dale Walker
birthday August 30, 1966
place of birth Detroit (MI), United States
size 186 cm
position Point guard
college Ferris State
Clubs as active
1985–1989 Ferris State Bulldogs ( NCAA Div II) 1990–1999 SSV ratiopharm Ulm 2000–2001 SSV ratiopharm Ulm United StatesUnited States
GermanyGermany
GermanyGermany

Jarvis Walker (born August 30, 1966 in Detroit , Michigan ) is a retired American basketball player . Walker played ten seasons as a professional for the German first division club SSV ratiopharm Ulm, with whom he won the German Cup in 1996 and was runner-up in 1998. In the Bundesliga season 1992/93 he was the best basket scorer in the league and in the course of his time scored a total of 6582 points in the top German division, which put him in second place in the all-time Bundesliga basketball list when he left Germany.

Career

college

After high school in Dearborn Heights , Walker played from 1985 while studying at Ferris State University for the college's own team "Bulldogs" in the "Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference" of the NCAA . With the Bulldogs, Walker won three championships at this conference, which as a member of the second division is not at the highest level in the NCAA. He led the team once to the quarter-finals of the national finals. At the end of his college days, Walker was among the top ten players on Ferris State University's all-time leaderboard on key stats like points scored, rebounds , assists and steals . For his athletic achievements, he was (in 2004 in the "Athletics Hall of Fame" German  Athletes Hall of Fame ) received his university.

Basketball Bundesliga

In 1990, Walker switched to the Bundesliga as a professional for SSV Ulm 1846, whose basketball team later included the company Ratiopharm in their name for reasons of sponsorship . Because of his passionate style of playing, Walker soon became one of the crowd's favorites in Ulm . He was characterized by speed, a safe throw, a good defense and a dynamic and aggressive style of play. After winning the title as the best Bundesliga scorer in the 1992/93 season, Walker signed a four-year contract with the Ulm team, which at the time meant an unusually long term, because on the one hand the club because of the risk of injury to the players and on the other hand the players because of the option of one higher-endowed contract in the NBA or a lucrative southern European league preferred a shorter term. After losing the cup final in 1994 and 1995, they moved into the final again in 1996, where they successfully took revenge for a one-point defeat from the previous year against series champion Bayer Leverkusen , which they in turn defeated with a point difference and for the first time won a national title.

In the Bundesliga season 1996/97 , the Ulm team missed the play-offs for the German championship for the first time in several years and could not defend their cup title. In return, they came back to the top four teams in the DBB Cup in the following season, but were eliminated in the semi-finals. As seventh place in the main round you had an amazing run in the play-offs of the basketball Bundesliga 1997/98 , when you played one after the other against the clubs from Bonn , Bamberg and Berlin , which were named "B-Teams" because of their initials , and moved into the final series . In the final series against defending champion Alba Berlin , however, they remained without a win against the dominant team in the league. After the runner-up, however, the following season 1998/99 was sportingly disappointing when the main round ended in tenth place in the table. In contrast, they reached a round of 16 in a European Cup competition for the first time, where they were eliminated in the 1999 Saporta Cup against the Turkish club Tofaş SK Bursa , which had already defeated the German representative HERZOGtel Trier one round earlier . Walker then left the Ulm Spatzen first.

In the 1999/2000 BBL, the Ulm team stumbled without Walker and ended the season in penultimate place in the table. The class could only be held by the failure to grant a license for the newcomer Falke Nürnberg . The Ulm team then brought back Walkers for the BBL 2000/01 . But even with Walker the playing time missed, after a coaching change he acted in the meantime as a player- coach . At the end of the season they were relegated from bottom of the table after only six wins in 26 games. Walker was referred to as the "Ulm Monument".

After his career as an athlete, Walker, whose wife played basketball at Ferris State University, returned with his family and settled in Muskegon , where the trained social worker works in shifts in a chemical factory. His two daughters played basketball at Western Michigan University and his son at Purdue University Fort Wayne .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The 200 best basket hunters in the Bundesliga since 1975 . In: Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (Ed.): 50 Years of the Basketball Bundesliga . Cologne, ISBN 978-3-7307-0242-0 , pp. 212 .
  2. ↑ a b Bulldogs Hall of Fame / Jarvis Walker - Basketball, 1985-89. (No longer available online.) Ferris State University , archived from the original on December 21, 2004 ; Retrieved June 10, 2012 (English, entry in the Ferris State Bulldogs' Hall of Fame). 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ferris.edu
  3. ↑ Men's Basketball Individual Career Leaders. (PDF; 92 kB) Ferris State University , accessed June 10, 2012 (English).
  4. ↑ From Bourgain to Walker . In: Deutscher Basketball Bund eV (Hrsg.): Special issue s.Oliver BBL season 2000/2001 . DSV Deutscher Sportverlag GmbH, Cologne 2000, p. 40 .
  5. ↑ Jarvis Walker , Internationales Sportarchiv 21/1996, in the Munzinger archive , accessed on June 10, 2012 ( beginning of the article freely accessible)
  6. ↑ a b Klaus Vestewig: Ulm has a place in my heart. Südwest Presse , May 14, 2009, accessed June 10, 2012 (interview with Walker).
  7. ^ Stefan Kümmritz: Walker monument brought back . In: Deutscher Basketball Bund eV (Hrsg.): Special issue s.Oliver BBL season 2000/2001 . DSV Deutscher Sportverlag GmbH, Cologne 2000, p. 41 .
  8. ↑ Mr. Basketball Candidate: Jarvis Walker. In: Prep Hoops. December 27, 2019, accessed May 24, 2020 (American English).
  9. ↑ Jarvis Walker - the unfinished. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , October 29, 2003, formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 10, 2012 (article published in Basketball magazine).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.basketball-bundesliga.de  
  10. ↑ Muskegon's basketball-playing Walker family tries to settle 'who's best' debate. November 15, 2019, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Walker, Jarvis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walker, Jarvis Dale (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan