Jay Thomas (basketball player)

Jay Thomas
Player information
Full name	Jay Lamar Thomas
birthday	February 9, 1979
place of birth	, UNITED STATES
size	192 cm
position	Shooting Guard
college	Central Washington
Club information
society	BIS Baskets Speyer
league	ProB
Jersey number	5
Clubs as active
000000000 TG Sandhausen 1999–2001 USC Heidelberg 2001–2004 CWU Wildcats ( NCAA Div II) 2004–2006 Bayern Munich 2006–2011 Walter Tigers Tübingen BIS Baskets Speyer since 2011 0

Jay Lamar Thomas (born February 9, 1979 ) is a German - American basketball player . Thomas played five seasons for the German first division club Walter Tigers Tübingen in the basketball Bundesliga . The long-time captain of the team was considered a defense specialist. Since 2011 he has been playing for the former second division team BIS Baskets from Speyer, who play in the fourth-class Regionalliga Südwest.

Career

Thomas grew up as the son of an American father and a German mother from the age of three in the Heidelberg area . After two years at a US high school between 1996 and 1998, he returned three years later to his father's homeland and studied between 2001 and 2004 at Central Washington University in Ellensburg in the west coast state. There he played for the college team Wildcats in Division II of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . After his return from the States in 2004, he played in the 2nd basketball league 2004/05 for the second division returnees FC Bayern Munich, who, however, were relegated to the then third-class regional league after one season. Thomas stayed with the Munich club and in 2006 they achieved the championship in the Regionalliga Südost, but for economic reasons they decided not to return to the second division.

Then Thomas joined the first division club Walter Tigers from Tübingen in 2006 , where he was subsequently used as a supplementary player from the bank in an average of ten minutes per game. In particular, he provided impulses on the defensive and was considered an important contact person within the team because of his bilingual origin, which is why he also acted as the team's captain for a long time. The best placement of the season was achieved in 2007 in Thomas' first season with the Tigers, when they just barely missed the play-offs for the German championship with a balanced season balance in tenth place . In 2011, those in charge of the Walter Tigers decided to give Thomas' role within the team to a younger player and did not extend the captain's contract. Thomas then moved to the former second division team BIS Baskets from Speyer , which now plays in the fourth-class Regionalliga Südwest. The former professional Thomas is one of the more experienced players in the Speyer team, which in particular offers young players from the connected basketball boarding school their first game practice in the senior sector.

Web links

• Jay Thomas - player profile on the website of the BARMER 2. Basketball Bundesliga ( ProA and ProB )
• easyCredit BBL - Jay Thomas - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Kettenburg, Matthias; Fischer, Tobias: The captain attacks. Tigers Tübingen , October 2008, accessed on March 20, 2013 (portrait, also published as a match day supplement).  
2. ↑ Losch and Thomas stay in Munich. FC Bayern Munich (basketball) , August 1, 2005, accessed on March 20, 2013 (media information). 
3. ↑ The Secretary of Defense leaves - Basketball: After five years with the Walter Tigers, Jay Thomas quits. (No longer available online.) Schwäbisches Tagblatt , July 5, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 20, 2013 .  ( 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.