Kevin Schaffartzik

Kevin Schaffartzik
Player information
birthday	17th December 1988
place of birth	San Diego (CA), USA
size	187 cm
position	Shooting Guard / Point Guard
college	Odessa Junior College, Texas
Club information
society	DBV Charlottenburg
Jersey number	6th
Clubs as active
2006–2008 TuS Lichterfelde 2008–2009 RSVE Stahnsdorf 2009–2011 Odessa JC Wranglers (NJCAA) 2012 Oettinger Rockets Gotha 2012–2013 Uni-Giant Leipzig 2013–2014 Science City Jena Since 2014 DBV Charlottenburg 00000 00

Kevin Schaffartzik (born December 17, 1988 in San Diego , California ) is a German basketball player . Former Junior - National player played since 2006, with two and a half years of study break in the United States , for various clubs in the second basketball league belonging Divisions ProA and ProB . In the spring of 2014, his involvement with ProA league club Science City Jena ended prematurely, whereupon Schaffartzik put his professional ambitions on hold and concentrated on completing a degree in Germany, where he continues to be active in the amateur field for DBV Charlottenburg. Schaffartzik's brother Heiko Schaffartzik , who was almost five years older than him, made it as a professional basketball player to become a men's national player and German champion with FC Bayern Munich .

Career

Kevin Schaffartzik, son of Walter Schaffartzik , made it to the north group of the 2nd Bundesliga in 2006 with the men's team of his home club TuS Lichterfelde, also abbreviated to TuSLi . After relegation to third last place in the table in the 2nd basketball league 2006/07 , the Lichterfelder were sorted into the third highest division ProB in 2007 during the subsequent reclassification of the 2nd BBL according to hierarchical instead of geographical considerations . In the ProB 2007/08 Schaffartzik was top scorer with a good 13 points per game in the very young, but with the later men's national players Andreas Seiferth and Niels Giffey also very talented team under coach Matej Mamić , which, however, stayed fourth from last at the end of the season Missed position in the table. In the tournament victory of the U20 junior national team at the European Championship of Group B in summer 2008, with which the German junior selection achieved the return among the 16 best national teams in Europe, Schaffartzik was top scorer with 25 points in the final against Belgium. Then Schaffartzik moved from relegated Lichterfelde to local rivals RSV Eintracht from Stahnsdorf , who had been promoted to ProB in 2007. In the ProB 2008/09 it was enough at the end of the season to ninth place in the table, with Schaffartzik being named Youngster of the Month in December 2008 .

Similar to Elias Harris and Christian Standhardinger , who also received an award as Youngster of the Month in the ProB 2008/09, Schaffartzik went to the United States again in 2009 for a study visit, where he was born during a longer stay with his parents for professional reasons had been. Here he got only one place at a junior college and played in Odessa (Texas) for the Wranglers in the National Junior Collegiate Athletic Association (NJCAA), for which the later NBA players Larry Johnson and Craig Ehlo before their professional career had played. After two years, Schaffartzik had supposedly created the conditions for further studies in order to also play for a university team in the more important National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and signed up for the Bearkats of Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas . But a rule change by the NCAA with a reassessment of his basketball activities in Germany, unlike Harris and Standhardinger, who were already active for university teams in the NCAA, nullified an accreditation in the NCAA. Schaffartzik then returned to Germany and at the beginning of 2012 joined the ProB league team Oettinger Rockets from Gotha , who had been promoted to the third-highest division a season earlier in 2010. With the Rockets Schaffartzik managed the championship of this division and promotion to the ProA in the play-offs of the ProB 2011/12 . Instead of the Rockets in Thuringia , however, Schaffartzik moved to nearby Saxony to Leipzig , where the university giants also moved up from the ProB to the ProA 2012/13 . While the Rockets managed to stay in the league, the university giants, who had been knocked off in the meantime, did not use a winning streak at the end of the season to stay in the second division.

For the ProA 2013/14 , however, Schaffartzik got a contract with the former first division club Science City from Jena . However, after an alleged misconduct, the club prematurely terminated the two-year contract in spring 2014. Schaffartzik then decided to concentrate on completing a degree in his hometown of Berlin, where he grew up. Here he is again active for his parent club TuS Lichterfelde, which entered into a syndicate with DBV Charlottenburg in the fourth highest division regional league for men, after the dissolution of the cooperation he played for Charlottenburg in the 2nd regional league.

Web links

• Player statistics - Kevin Schaffartzik - (incomplete) profile on statistics pages of the national basketball leagues
• Kevin Schaffartzik - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Nittel: Basketball player Kevin Schaffartzik returns to his home in Berlin. Berliner Woche , September 15, 2014, accessed on May 14, 2015 . 
2. ↑ https://www.morgenpost.de/printarchiv/sport/article104531647/Basketball-als-Familienangelektiven.html
3. ↑ Nicolai Simon and Philip Zwiener had a higher average of points for the TuSLi that season, but were only used in individual games and were otherwise with a double license in the squad of the first division club Alba Berlin .
4. ↑ Teams overview: TuS Lichterfelde 2007/08. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , archived from the original on February 12, 2015 ; accessed on May 14, 2015 (2007/08 season squad). 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.  
5. ↑ Germany Capture Division B Gold. FIBA Europe , August 11, 2008, accessed May 14, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Germany vs. Belgium / U20 European Championship Men 2008. FIBA Europe , accessed on May 14, 2015 (English, game statistics). 
7. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga : P4two Youngster of the Month ProB - KEVIN SCHAFFARTZIK (RSVE Stahnsdorf): cool-nosed and with a "touch" from a distance. Schoenen-Dunk.de, January 9, 2009, accessed on May 14, 2015 (Medien-Info). 
8. ↑ Kevin Schaffartzik - Basketball Recruiting - Player Profiles. ESPN , accessed on May 14, 2015 (English, player profile). 
9. ↑ Kevin Schaffartzik is the name of the newest player in the league table. MSB VVW GmbH: thueringen-reporter.de, January 2, 2012, accessed on April 15, 2015 . 
10. ↑ Tino Zippel: Basketball: Schaffartzik sued against expulsion at Science City Jena. Ostthüringer Zeitung , April 5, 2014, accessed on May 14, 2015 .