Omari Westley

Omari Westley
Player information
Full name	Omari Che Westley
birthday	3rd February 1982
place of birth	Cleveland (OH), USA
size	201 cm
position	Power Forward / Small Forward
college	Cleveland State
Clubs as active
2000–2001 Wabash Valley Warriors (NJCAA) 2001–2002 Barton Cougars (NJCAA) 2003–2005 Cleveland State Vikings ( NCAA ) 2005–2006 KR Basket Reykjavík 2006 Racing Club Luxemburg 2006 EiffelTowers Den Bosch 2007 Torpan Pojat 2007–2009 Giants Nördlingen 2009– 2010 Kazma SC 2010–2011 al-Arabi 2011 al-Gharafa Sports Club 00000 00000 00000 00000

Omari Westley (born February 3, 1982 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is a retired American basketball player . After studying in his home country, Westley became a professional in Europe and rose to the top German league with the Giants Nördlingen, where he was the top scorer in the 2008/09 basketball league with almost 16 points per game. Westley then played for some teams in the Gulf States on the Arabian Peninsula .

Career

College (2000 to 2005)

Westley was a talented basketball player during his high school years with the prospect of an athletic scholarship from the University of Arkansas . After high school, however, he lacked the academic maturity for university studies, so that he would have had to attend a prep school for a year. Instead, Westley decided to study at a "junior college" and in 2000 went to the Wabash Valley Community College in Mount Carmel, Illinois . With the college team Warriors he won the championship of the National Junior Collegiate Association (NJCAA) there in 2001, but then moved to the Barton County Community College in Great Bend (Kansas) . There he played in the college team Cougars in the NJCAA together with Robert Whaley , a later second-round "pick" in the 2005 NBA draft . He was suspended from college following an incident in which Westley was involved in a physical altercation after a game with a player on an opposing team. He then went on to study at Cleveland State University in his hometown , but without graduating from junior college was another year ineligible to play championship games in NCAA Division I. In 2003, he also continued his basketball career in college and played for the college team Vikings in the Horizon League of Division I. The Vikings had, however, in the two seasons 2003/04 and 2004/05 very negative season results and were without prospect of a qualification for a final in the "postseason". At the end of his second season he was removed from the Vikings squad for an unexcused absence from training and play.

Europe (2005 to 2009)

In the last two seasons in the NCAA Division I Westley could put up decent personal statistics, but combined with his disciplinary misconduct, this was not enough for a contract in a lucrative league. Nevertheless, he began a professional career in 2005 and first played in Iceland for the basketball team of KR Reykjavík , for which he took part in the All-Star Game of the Icelandic league. In January 2006, he moved to Luxembourg , where he could not prevent the relegation of the Racing Club from the top division. The following season he got a contract with the Dutch champions EiffelTowers from 's-Hertogenbosch . After a serious car accident, however, he remained in international games without commitment for the club. On his comeback, Westley played in 2007 for Torpan Pojat from Helsinki in the Finnish Korisliiga , before moving to the Giants from Nördlingen in the second German ProA league in December 2007 . With this club he, who was named Player of the Month in March 2008 in the ProA, still managed to jump to first place in the table and win the championship in the ProA 2007/08 . After the license was granted for the top division, this meant promotion to the basketball league . In the basketball Bundesliga 2008/09 they managed to stay up and stayed ahead of the more established clubs LTi Gießen 46ers and Eisbären Bremerhaven . Westley was the top scorer of the season with just under 16 points per game and was the successor to Tim Black , who had also played for Barton College, but the one in Wilson (North Carolina) in NCAA Division II. Westley was missing on the last day of the game due to a suspension technical fouls and insults to the referee. Nördlingen then withdrew back to the ProA second division for economic reasons.

End of career (2009 to 2011)

Despite his personal success as a top scorer in the German Bundesliga, Westley did not play in any sporting league afterwards, but only worked on the Arabian Peninsula in Kuwait and Qatar . After 2011 Westley was no longer professionally active.

Web links

• Omari Westley (Giants Nördlingen) - player profile on statistics pages of the basketball leagues
• Omari Westley Stats - Cleveland State Vikings - statistics from NCAA seasons ( English )
• Player Bio: Omari Westley ( Memento from May 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Chris Monter: Omari Westley lands at Cleveland State. (No longer available online.) Scout.com, October 4, 2002, formerly in the original ; accessed on April 11, 2013 .  ( 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.    
2. ^ Westley signs to play with Barton County. (No longer available online.) Barton Community College / BartonCCC.net, 2001, formerly original ; accessed on April 11, 2013 (English, 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.    
3. ↑ Mike Marzolf: Cougars start season off Friday in Pepsi Classic. (No longer available online.) Barton Community College / BartonCCC.net, October 30, 2001, formerly original ; accessed on April 11, 2013 (English, 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.    
4. ↑ Tony Jimenez: Coffeyville keeps up its JCCC hot streak. (No longer available online.) Topeka Capital-Journal / CJOnline.com, February 11, 2002, archived from the original on November 26, 2015 ; accessed on April 11, 2013 . 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. ^ Associated Press : Cleveland State dismisses Westley after transgressions. USA Today , February 25, 2005, accessed April 12, 2013 . 
6. ↑ WESTLEY, OMARI CHE. ULEB , accessed on April 12, 2013 (English, player profile). 
7. ^ ^{A b} VPV Giants Nördlingen: Omari Westley is coming. (No longer available online.) DieJungeLiga.de, December 19, 2007, formerly in the original ; Retrieved on April 11, 2013 (Medien-Info Giants Nördlingen).  ( 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.    
8. ↑ March - OMARI WESTLEY (VPV Giants Nördlingen): Missing part in the VPV puzzle. (No longer available online.) DieJungeLiga.de, April 2008, formerly in the original ; accessed on April 11, 2013 (media information).  ( 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.    
9. ↑ Thomas Käckenmeister: Top scorer crown for Westley. Crossover-Online.de, May 10, 2009, accessed on April 11, 2013 (press release: Basketball Bundesliga). 
10. ↑ Thomas Käckenmeister: Ban and penalty for Westley. Crossover-Online.de, May 7, 2009, accessed on April 12, 2013 (press release Basketball-Bundesliga).