Keith Waleskowski

Keith Waleskowski
Player information
Full name	Keith Christopher Waleskowski
birthday	26th August 1980 (age 40)
place of birth	Cape Girardeau , Missouri , United States
size	204 cm
position	Power Forward / Center
college	Dayton
Clubs as active
2000–2004 Dayton Flyers ( NCAA ) 2004–2005 Gijón Baloncesto 2005–2006 CB Murcia 2006–2007 Gijón Baloncesto 2007–2008 CB Lucentum Alicante 2008–2009 Club Melilla Baloncesto 2009–2010 Aurora Jesi 2010–2012 Tezenis Verona 2012–2013 Polar Bears Bremerhaven

Keith Christopher Waleskowski (born August 26, 1980 in Cape Girardeau , Missouri ) is a retired basketball player . After studying in his native United States , Waleskowski began a professional career in Europe. In order not to fall under more restrictive restrictions on foreigners in Europe, Waleskowski, like his brother Adam, took on German citizenship . He had this option because his grandparents were from Germany and had emigrated to the United States with his German-born father. After Waleskowski had played for five years in the Spanish league Española de Baloncesto, he played for three years in the second Italian league LegADue . He last played in the 2012/13 season for the Eisbären Bremerhaven in the top German basketball division before ending his basketball career.

Career

Waleskowski went to the "Archbishop Alter High School" in Dayton (Ohio) and began studying at the University of Dayton in the same city in 1999 , where he worked for the Flyers college team in the Atlantic 10 Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) played but suspended the first year redshirted from championship games. After 2001 and 2002 at the Tournament National Invitation had participated, was reached in 2003 after the championship in the Conference to qualify for the national NCAA finals , where one surprising against already in the first round Golden Hurricane of the University of Tulsa defeated. In addition to the Conference Championship, this year they also won the “Maui Invitational Tournament”, in which Waleskowski was named “ MVP ” by the tournament winner. In 2004, the Flyers could not defend the Conference championship and lost the championship tournament final against the Musketeers of the Xavier University of Cincinnati , but again reached the national NCAA finals, in which they were again eliminated early after a first-round defeat.

In 2004 Waleskowski began a professional career in the Spanish second division Española de Baloncesto for the club from Gijón , which, however, missed the play-offs for promotion to the top division at the end of the season. This reached Waleskowski in the following season with his new club from Murcia . The club returned as a finalist of the play-offs, in which they were defeated at the end of Bruesa GBC , back in the top division. Waleskowski, however, returned to Gijón for the 2006/07 season, where he achieved an average of a double-double this time with 14.5 points and 10.7 rebounds , which he had narrowly missed two years earlier. At the end of the season, however, Gijón lost third from bottom the "play-downs" against Gandía Basket in five games and was relegated to the third division LEB Plata. For the 2007/08 season Waleskowski moved to the first division relegated CB Lucentum from Alicante , who was defeated in the semi-finals for promotion and missed the first division return as second in the table. With his new club from Melilla in the African part of Spain, he reached the final of the promotion play-offs again in the 2008/09 season, which this time was lost to his ex-club from Alicante.

For the 2009/10 season Waleskowski moved to the second Italian league LegADue for the club from Jesi . While Waleskowski barely missed a double-double with just under 17 points and 9.8 rebounds per game, the team was only penultimate at the end of the season and could only hold the class by withdrawing licenses from other teams. For the 2010/11 season he moved to the second division promoted Tezenis from Verona , who have a successful past as a participant in the ULEB Euroleague 2000/01 and Korać Cup winner 1998. With Verona, Waleskowski was again only penultimate and, like Jesi, managed to stay up through license withdrawals and withdrawals of other clubs from the second highest Italian division. In the following season 2011/12 Waleskowski stayed this time for the first time longer than one season with a club and was able to secure relegation earlier with Verona as eleventh in the table, with only one victory behind a placement for the play-offs for promotion. For the following season 2012/13 Waleskowski then decided to change clubs and was signed by the German first division club Eisbären from Bremerhaven , so that he was professionally active in the basketball Bundesliga 2012/13 for the first time in his father's country of birth. After the season he ended his basketball career and returned to the United States.

Private

Keith Waleskowski is the father of three children who live in the United States.

Web links

• easyCredit BBL - Keith Waleskowski - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball Bundesliga website
• = Legadue Basket = Keith Waleskowski - player profile on the Legadue website ( Italian )
• FEB.es: WALESKOWSKI, KEITH CHRISTOPHER - player profile on the pages of Federación Española de Baloncesto ( spanish )
• Keith Wales Frankowski Stats - Dayton Flyers - statistics from college seasons at statsheet.com ( English )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New entry: Adam Waleskowski. (No longer available online.) Düsseldorf Baskets , January 2013, archived from the original on April 29, 2013 ; Retrieved April 19, 2013 (media info). 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.  
2. ↑ Team preview: Dayton Flyers. ESPN , June 12, 2001, accessed April 19, 2013 . 
3. ↑ 2013 Maui Invitational puts Flyers against nation's best. (No longer available online.) University of Dayton , March 6, 2012, archived from the original on May 12, 2013 ; accessed on April 19, 2013 (English, media information). 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. ↑ New entry Keith Waleszkowski receives one-year contract. (No longer available online.) Eisbären Bremerhaven , September 12, 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 19, 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.