Jermain Raffington

Jermain Raffington
Player information
Full name	Jermain Trevor Raffington
birthday	May 1, 1985
place of birth	Hamburg, Germany
size	204 cm
position	Small forward / power forward
college	Southeastern CC (Iowa)
Club information
society	BG Göttingen
league	Per A
Clubs as active
2004–2005 TSG Ehingen Steeples 2005–2007 SCC Burlington Blackhawks (NJCAA) 2007–2008 BV Chemnitz 99 2008–2010 BBC Bayreuth 2010–2011 BG 74 Göttingen 2011–2013 Eisbären Bremerhaven 2013–2014 BG Göttingen

Jermain Raffington (born May 1, 1985 in Hamburg ) is a German presenter and former basketball player .

After studying for two years in the United States , Raffington, the son of a German mother and a Jamaican father, turned professional in Germany in 2007. After three seasons in the second ProA division , he played in the top division basketball league from 2010 to 2013 , initially for the BG 74 Göttingen and until 2013 for the Eisbären Bremerhaven when he returned to the BG Göttingen in the ProA.

Basketball career

Raffington grew up in Bad Krozingen and first played in youth teams at USC Freiburg , where he made it to the youth national team . He then moved to the basketball boarding school of the Urspring School and played for the teams from Ehingen called Steeples in the youth classes and, from 2003, also for the men's team in the second division. After graduating from high school in 2005, Raffington went to study in the United States. After the NCAA evaluated his assignments in the second German division as a professional practice, they denied him the immediate "eligibility" ( German NCAA player authorization ) for Division I, which is why Raffington first went to the "Southeastern Community College" in Burlington (Iowa) , whose ambitious basketball team "Blackhawks" were national champions of the "National Junior Collegiate Athletic Association" in 2003 and 2004. Here Raffington also managed to attract NCAA Division I colleges and universities . In January 2007, he decided to go to Butler University among the scholarships offered for continuing his studies . Raffington then gave private reasons in the summer of 2007 to forego this scholarship and return to Germany.  

When he returned from the United States in 2007, Raffington signed a contract with BV 99 from Chemnitz for the ProA 2007/08 . In the new second-highest German league, however, the Saxons only reached the penultimate place in the table at the end of the season and managed to stay in the league only by renouncing another team. Raffington moved to the league rivals from Bayreuth for the following season . After a promotion place was missed in the ProA 2008/09 only because of the poorer direct comparison , the ProA 2009/10 won the championship and the promotion to the top German division. In addition, the club in Cuxhaven won against the host in the final of the DBB cup competition , which was held without the participation of the first division teams.

For the basketball Bundesliga 2010/11 Raffington moved from the promoted team to the new league competitor BG 74 from Göttingen , who had previously won the EuroChallenge 2009/10 . In the first division team, which also competed in the Eurocup 2010/11 , Raffington did not get the desired playing time and he moved to Bremerhaven for the league competitor Eisbären for the following season . Raffington could hardly increase his game shares here and the polar bears missed the entry into the play-offs for the German championship for the first time in two years . The polar bears could not reach the play-offs in 2012/2013 either. After his contract in Bremerhaven expired, Raffington returned to the BG Göttingen and played again in the ProA for his former club in the 2013/14 season . He then ended his professional career.

Media career

Raffington is an avid photographer in his spare time and has already accepted commissioned work for magazines and journals. He moderated and produced the web magazine schwarzrotgold tv , which dealt with the life and experiences of black Germans . He worked as an author for Vice magazine and as a presenter of the program Die Vice Reports on RTL II .

Others

He is the brother of Justin Raffington .

Web links

• - jayraffphotography - homepage with a selection of photo works
• Eisbären Bremerhaven> Jermain Raffington - “ Profile ” of the Eisbären Bremerhaven
• Jermain Raffington (Eisbären Bremerhaven) - player profile on statistics pages of the basketball leagues
• Freiburg sport portrait: Jermain Raffington, basketball portrait at Fudder.de on April 17, 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ archive.fiba.com: Players - Jermain Trevor RAFFINGTON (GER). FIBA , accessed on April 7, 2013 (English, overview of tournament participation in the player archive). 
2. ^ ^{A b} Butler Signs Junior College Post Player. Butler University , April 12, 2007, accessed April 7, 2013 (media info). 
3. ↑ Athletics - Men's Basketball Home: Welcome to SCC Men's Basketball - Home of the 2000, 2003, 2004 National Champions! (No longer available online.) Southeastern Community College, Burlington, archived from the original January 12, 2012 ; Retrieved on April 7, 2013 (English, homepage of the men's basketball team). 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.  
4. ↑ Jermain Raffington goes to US # 12 Butler University. Schoenen-Dunk.de, January 11, 2007, accessed April 7, 2013 . 
5. ^ ^{A b} Matthias Pattloch: Chemnitz obliges Jermain Raffington. Schoenen-Dunk.de, June 27, 2007, accessed on April 7, 2013 (Medien-Info BV Chemnitz 99). 
6. ↑ BBC Bayreuth: Jermain Raffington follows Christian Simmons from Chemnitz. (No longer available online.) DieJungeLiga.de, July 18, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved on April 7, 2013 (Medien-Info BBC Bayreuth).  ( 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.    
7. ↑ Newcomer Jermain Raffington strengthens Violets. Göttinger Tageblatt , July 6, 2010, accessed April 7, 2013 . 
8. ↑ RAFFINGTON, JERMAIN. ULEB , accessed April 7, 2013 (English, player profile). 
9. ↑ Big McNaughton interview - Raffington photographs Zwiener. (No longer available online.) Eisbären Bremerhaven , January 31, 2012, formerly in the original ; accessed on April 7, 2013 (media info).  ( 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.    
10. ↑ Schwarz Rot Gold website. Retrieved May 1, 2015 . 
11. ↑ Jermain Raffington | VICE Sports. In: VICE Sports. Retrieved on July 14, 2016 (German). 
12. ↑ moderator. In: www.rtl2.de. Retrieved July 14, 2016 . 
13. ↑ volksfreund.de: Gladiators newcomer Raffington about scooter riding in Florida, German bread and the playoffs - volksfreund.de. In: www.volksfreund.de. Retrieved July 14, 2016 .