Peter Guarasci

Peter Guarasci
Player information
Full name	Peter Anthony Guarasci
birthday	February 25, 1974
place of birth	Niagara Falls (ON), Canada
size	204 cm
position	Power forward
college	Simon Fraser
Clubs as active
1992–1994 Fairfield Stags ( NCAA ) 1994–1996 Simon Fraser Clan ( NAIA ) 1996–1999 Scavolini Pesaro 1999–2000 Opel Skyliners 2000–2001 Codivari Roseto 2001–2002 Caja San Fernando Sevilla 2003–2004 Rimini Crabs 2004–2005 Bipop Carire Reggio Emilia 2005-2008 Rimini Crabs
National team
1996-2003	Canada
Clubs as coaches
2008–2009 Simon Fraser Clan ( CIS ; AC ) 2009–2010 UBC Okanagan Heat (CIS; AC) 2010–2011 Alberta Golden Bears (CIS; AC) 2011–2012 MacEwan Griffins (ACAC) Since 2012 UBC Okanagan Heat 0

Peter Guarasci medal table
Basketball (men)
Canada
American Championship
silver	San Juan 1999
bronze	Neuquén 2001

Peter Anthony Guarasci (born February 25, 1974 in Niagara Falls , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian basketball player . After his studies, Guarasci played as a professional in Europe, where he was considered an EU national due to his second Italian citizenship and was therefore not subject to any restrictions. As a Canadian national player , Guarasci won a silver and a bronze medal at the American Championships and, in addition to the 1998 World Championships, also took part in the 2000 Olympic basketball tournament in Sydney. His greatest success with a club team is the 2000 Cup victory with the Opel Skyliners Frankfurt. In addition to one season in the German basketball league and one in the Spanish ACB league , Guarasci otherwise played exclusively for Italian clubs during his professional career until 2008. After his active career, Guarasci became a coach in Canadian university sports.

Career

Guarasci went to study at Fairfield University in the US state of Connecticut in 1992 , where he played for the university team Stags in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference in the NCAA . After two years, however, he moved to Simon Fraser University on the Canadian west coast in 1994 . There he played with the college team Clan in the NAIA . With the Canadian student selection, Guarasci won a bronze medal at the 1995 Summer Universiade in Fukuoka .

In 1996 Guarasci finished his studies and began a career as a professional player in Italy, where he was granted citizenship because of his Italian ancestry. In three seasons he played for the club Scavolini from Pesaro , which in 1998 was relegated from the first Italian division Serie A to the second division. Pesaro managed to get promoted again immediately after the 1998/99 season, but Guarasci moved to the German basketball league for the Opel Skyliners from Frankfurt am Main , who had taken over the first division license from Dragons Rhöndorf . In their first season in the basketball league 1999/2000 , the Frankfurt team reached third place after the main round and were just eliminated from the championship award in the play-off semi- final series against former champions Bayer Giants Leverkusen . In the final of the national cup competition, however, you could defeat the master ALBA Berlin in front of a home crowd and win the first title for the new club. Guarasci, who made his debut in a final squad of the Canadian national team for the first time at the 1998 World Cup and won a silver medal behind the United States at the 1999 American Championship with the Canadian selection , then took part in the 2000 Olympic Games , in which one after the Group victory in the preliminary round in the quarter-finals against France was eliminated from the medal award and finished in seventh place.

For the season 2000/01 Guarasci returned to Italy and played in Roseto degli Abruzzi for the first division promoted Codivari, who immediately reached the play-offs for the championship. Here they were eliminated in the first round against the Euroleague premiere winner and later champion children Bologna . In the summer of 2001 he won another medal with the Canadian national team at the 2001 American Championships after winning the "small final" over Puerto Rico . In the 2001/02 season Guarasci played in the top Spanish league ACB for Caja San Fernando from Seville . After an injury, Guarasci fell out for much of the season and he made only eleven appearances for the team, which clearly missed entry into the championship play-offs in twelfth place in the table. After injury problems in the 2001/02 season, Guarasci continued his career in 2003 in the Italian second division Legadue with the Crabs from Rimini , for which he was interrupted by a season in Serie A 2004/05 at Bipop Carire from Reggio nell'Emilia , played until 2008. The former first division team regularly failed in the first play-off round for promotion to a return to the top Italian division, only in the 2006/07 season they reached the semi-final series as second in the main round, in which they were against Guarasci's former club and later promoted team Scavolini Pesaro was eliminated. After the 2007/08 season, Guarasci was no longer professionally active.

After his active career, Guarasci became a coach in Canadian university sports. After previously working as an assistant coach , he coached the Griffins at MacEwan University in Edmonton in 2011 , before taking over the heat team in the Canadian Interuniversity Sports Association (CIS) a year later at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna .

Web links

• archive.fiba.com: Players - Peter Anthony GUARASCI (CAN) - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments ( English )
• Legabasket: Peter Guarasci - player profile on the websites of the Serie A ( Italian )
• Peter Guarasci in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Beko BBL - Player Statistics - Peter Guarasci - SKYLINERS. Basketball Bundesliga , accessed on January 19, 2014 (player profile on statistics pages). 
2. ↑ ACB.COM: Peter Guarasci. Liga ACB , accessed January 19, 2014 (Spanish, player profile). 
3. ↑ Legaduebasket: Peter Guarasci. Legadue , accessed January 19, 2014 (Italian, player profile). 
4. ^ Pete Guarasci tabbed as new coach for Heat. University of British Columbia Okanagan: ok.ubc.ca, April 16, 2012, accessed January 19, 2014 (English, media info).