Johnny McNeil

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Johnny-Jacob McNeil (born February 27, 1968 ) is a former American - Austrian basketball player on the position of indoor player . The 2.03 meter tall McNeil played as a professional for years with the BSC Raiffeisen Panthers Fürstenfeld  and the Artland Dragons .

career

McNeil graduated from high school in 1986 while playing basketball at T. Wingate Andrews High School in the city of High Point , North Carolina . From 1986 to 1988 he won with the team from Chowan University (also in North Carolina) with only eleven defeats, 52 wins. From 1988 to 1990 he was part of the basketball selection of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech for short) from the first division of the NCAA .

As a professional basketball player, McNeil was employed by clubs in Brazil , Switzerland and Germany , but above all in Austria , and in the course of his career also took on the citizenship of the country. From 1996 to 2002 and from 2005 to 2007 he was under contract with the BSC Raiffeisen Panthers Fürstenfeld and was named “Player of the Year” in the Bundesliga by the basketball internet service eurobasket.com after the 1998/99 season . Between his tenure in Fürstenfeld, McNeil played for the Artland Dragons in the small town of Quakenbrück in Lower Saxony from 2002 to 2005 . In 2003, he and the team won the championship title in the northern relay of the 2nd basketball league and then spent two years in the basketball league for Lower Saxony  , where he was partly team captain.

In 2001 McNeil was part of the Austrian national team .

After retiring from basketball in 2007, McNeil returned to his homeland and settled in the state of South Carolina . He remained connected to the sport of basketball as a coach at youth camps and as assistant coach of his son's high school team. His main job was as a sales consultant in the automotive industry.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hall of Fame | Chowan University Hawks. Retrieved October 5, 2017 .
  2. ^ Johnny McNeil College Stats | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved October 5, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Johnny McNeil Basketball Player Profile, BSC Raiffeisen Furstenfeld Panthers, Georgia Tech, News, A Bundesliga stats, Career, Games Logs, Best, Awards - eurobasket . In: www.eurobasket.com . ( eurobasket.com [accessed October 5, 2017]).
  4. ↑ The captain leaves . ( noz.de [accessed October 5, 2017]).
  5. ↑ news networld Internet Service GmbH: - EM-Quali: only one is smaller than one ninety . In: news.at . May 8, 2001 ( news.at [accessed October 5, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME McNeil, Johnny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McNeil, Johnny-Jacob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Austrian basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1968