Ryan DeMichael

Player information
Ryan DeMichael
birthday	July 12, 1977
place of birth	New Philadelphia (OH), USA
size	205 cm
position	Center / Power Forward
college	Tennessee Martin
Clubs as active
1995–1999 UT-Martin Skyhawks ( NCAA ) 1999–2000 Vantaan Pussihukat 2000–2002 SG Sechtem 2002–2004 AB Contern 2004–2005 TV 1860 Lich 2005–2007 DJK sellbytel Nürnberg 2007–2008 Walter Tigers Tübingen 2008–2009 Science City Jena 2009 –2011 Kirchheim Knights 2011–2012 Nuremberg BCUnited States Finland Germany Luxembourg Germany Germany Germany Germany Germany Germany

Ryan DeMichael (born July 12, 1977 in New Philadelphia , Ohio ) is a retired basketball player . Born in the USA, he played as a professional in Europe after completing his studies in his home country, where he spent a total of eight seasons in Germany apart from three seasons , three of them in the top division of the basketball division . After his career as a basketball player ended in 2012, DeMichael, who has had German citizenship since the beginning of 2011 , stayed with his family in Würzburg.

Career

In 1995, DeMichael went to study at the University of Tennessee at Martin , whose Skyhawks basketball team had only been promoted from Division II to the Ohio Valley Conference of NCAA Division I a few years earlier . With this team DeMichael could not celebrate any successes worth mentioning until 1999.

In 1999 DeMichael turned professional and initially played a season in the Finnish Korisliiga for Pussihukat from Vantaa . After this season he moved to Germany in the 2nd Basketball Bundesliga Group North for SG from Sechtem . The cooperation partner of the first division team Telekom Baskets Bonn , who had been promoted a year earlier, achieved a midfield placement in each of the following two seasons before DeMichael moved to the Amis du Basketball club from Contern in the Luxembourg Diekirch League . The Luxembourg champions from 2001, who had previously played in the European club competition Korać Cup , won the national championship again in 2004 after a runner-up in 2003.

In 2004 DeMichael returned to Germany and played in the 2nd division 2004/05 Group South for TV Lich, which was a cooperation partner of the first division club Gießen 46ers . The team reached a midfield position in the final table, with DeMichael a double-double with a good 20 points and ten rebounds per game. DeMichael then moved to the second division champions and promoted DJK sellbytel in Nuremberg . In the basketball Bundesliga 2005/06 , the first division newcomer was only on the penultimate place in the table at the end of the season and was only able to stay in the class by increasing the top division. The second first division season was even more unsuccessful and one was again penultimate in the topped up league. After the relegation of Nuremberg, DeMichael switched to previous league competitor Walter Tigers from Tübingen . However, the Tigers only played in the 2007/08 basketball league , albeit successfully, to keep up. Before the end of the season, DeMichael was suspended in Tübingen for disciplinary reasons.

He then signed a contract with Zalakerámia-ZTE KK in Hungary in 2008, but moved to the first division relegated Science City from Jena at the beginning of the season . In the newly created single-track second division ProA , which had replaced the previous regional groups, they reached a sixth place in the 2008/09 season , with DeMichael once again among the top performers of his team with a good eleven points and almost seven rebounds on average. For the ProA 2009/10 DeMichael moved to the table neighbor VfL Knights from Kirchheim unter Teck . The Knights were able to place themselves again in the upper third of the table in the two following seasons and each reached fourth place in the final table. After DeMichael became a German citizen at the beginning of 2011, he moved to the ProA 2011/12 to the newly promoted Nürnberger BC, who had succeeded DeMichael's former club DJK Falke. However, the ambitious newcomer fell short of expectations and only managed to stay in league position in twelfth place in the table. At the beginning of the following season, the now 35-year-old DeMichael, who still had a contract until 2014, decided to end his career.

Web links

Ryan De Michael (Nürnberger BC) - player profile on the statistics pages of the basketball national leagues
Ryan demichael Stats - Tennessee-Martin Skyhawks - statistics from college seasons at statsheet.com ( English )

Individual evidence

↑ Eating food? Der Teckbote , February 4, 2011, accessed on February 21, 2013 .
↑ ^a ^b NBC: DeMichael breaks up. Nürnberger Nachrichten , November 27, 2012, accessed on February 21, 2013 .
^ Miles Schmidt-Scheuber: Ryan De Michael (I Was Always Honest, Played For My Teammates, And Always had a passion for The Game). Eurobasket.com, February 21, 2013, accessed February 21, 2013 (interview).
^ Tübingen suspends DeMichael. kicker.de , March 20, 2008, accessed on February 21, 2013 .

personal data
SURNAME	DeMichael, Ryan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American-German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH	July 12, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH	New Philadelphia

[1] Eating food? Der Teckbote , February 4, 2011, accessed on February 21, 2013 .

[schluss-2] NBC: DeMichael breaks up. Nürnberger Nachrichten , November 27, 2012, accessed on February 21, 2013 .

[3] Miles Schmidt-Scheuber: Ryan De Michael (I Was Always Honest, Played For My Teammates, And Always had a passion for The Game). Eurobasket.com, February 21, 2013, accessed February 21, 2013 (interview).

[kicker-4] Tübingen suspends DeMichael. kicker.de , March 20, 2008, accessed on February 21, 2013 .