Maik Mertens

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Maik Mertens (born April 10, 1977 in Gütersloh ) is a former German basketball player . The 2.12 meter tall indoor player played 18 Bundesliga matches for the Oldenburg TB and was a junior national player.

career

Mertens comes from the youth of Gütersloh TV and played for the Paderborn Baskets in the 2nd basketball league before he played for the San José State University team from December 1997 until the end of the 1998/99 season . He was used in 38 games of the NCAA and scored an average of 1.8 points per game. From 1999 to 2001 Mertens then played for the University of Sioux Falls in the NAIA .

In August 2001 he was signed by Bundesliga club Oldenburger TB , but did not get beyond the role of supplementary player and was used in 18 Bundesliga games for an average of less than three minutes. In the 2002/03 season Mertens was under contract with the second division USC Freiburg , where he received significantly longer playing time. In 2003 Mertens left the Breisgau and went to the regional league team TSVE Bielefeld , with whom he became champion of the west season in 2007 and was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga ProB and also played there for the club. After 2008 Mertens was again active for his hometown club Gütersloher TV in the major league.

National team

Mertens played in the U22 age range in the German junior national team alongside Dirk Nowitzki .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ COLLEGE BASKETBALL PREVIEW / SJS Hoping It Can't Get Any Worse / New coach tries to rally from last season's disaster . In: SFGate . ( sfgate.com [accessed February 16, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Maik Mertens College Stats | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved February 16, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Utes Play Two At Home This Weekend . ( utahutes.com [accessed February 16, 2017]).
  5. ↑ OTB with a new center. Retrieved February 16, 2017 .
  6. ↑ easyCredit - 1859 Maik MERTENS. Retrieved February 16, 2017 .
  7. ↑ RP ONLINE: All changes at a glance: Basketball: interplay without example. Retrieved February 16, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Reserve grabs ambition . ( ruhrnachrichten.de [accessed on February 16, 2017]). Ambition grabs reserve ( memento of the original dated February 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mobil.ruhrnachrichten.de
  9. ↑ Germany - Italy | European Championship for Men '22 and Under '(1998) | FIBA Europe. Retrieved February 16, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Mertens, Maik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Gutersloh