Sheldon Eberhardt

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Basketball player
Sheldon Eberhardt
Player information
Full name Sheldon Isaiah Eberhardt
birthday November 2, 1995
place of birth Pforzheim , Germany
size 196 cm
Weight 86 kg
position Shooting Guard
High school Middle Creek High School
college Elon
Club information
society Bayer Giants Leverkusen
league ProA
Jersey number 11
Clubs as active
until 2014 BG Karlsruhe 2014–2015 Middle Creek High School 2015–2019 Elon University 2019 Central German BC since 2019 Bayer Giants Leverkusen0 GermanyGermany
United StatesUnited States
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Sheldon Isaiah Eberhardt (born November 2, 1995 in Pforzheim ) is a German basketball player . He has been playing for Bayer Leverkusen since 2019 .

Player career

Eberhardt, son of a German and an American, grew up in Germany and from the 2012/13 season played for the second men's team from Post Südstadt Karlsruhe in the regional league. In the 2013/14 season he made four appearances in the 2nd Bundesliga ProA for BG Karlsruhe , which at the time had a cooperation with PSK .

For the 2014/15 season he went to the United States and played for the basketball selection at Middle Creek High School in the city of Apex ( North Carolina ). In 2015, he began studying at Elon University (also in North Carolina) and joined the college's basketball team in the NCAA's first division . In four years he came to 93 missions for Elon, in which he was 13 times in the starting line- up. He got averages of 6.1 points, 2.5 rebounds and two basket templates. He achieved his highest point average in the 2018/19 game year when he recorded 10.3 per game. That year Sheldon scored 23 points against the College of William & Mary , his career high in the "Most Points in a Game" category. Following this season, Eberhardt was named the best “sixth man” in the Colonial Athletic Association division .

In July 2019, Eberhardt was signed by the Bundesliga club Mitteldeutscher BC . He played five Bundesliga games for MBC until November 2019, but did not make the breakthrough and only scored 1.2 points per match. During the 2019/20 season, the Combo Guard moved to the second division Bayer Giants Leverkusen . With the German record champions he made a total of 16 appearances in the ProA 2019/20 , in which he marked an average of 9.2 points per game. The season ended prematurely in mid-March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . In June 2020 he extended his expiring contract with the Rhinelanders for another season.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Adam Smith Times-News asmith@thetimesnews.com: Elon doesn't have to reach for late basketball recruit . In: The Times . ( thetimesnews.com [accessed April 22, 2017]).
  2. BBL GmbH. Retrieved April 22, 2017 .
  3. Sheldon Eberhardt profile | Game center | FIBA.com. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 23, 2017 ; Retrieved April 22, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fiba.com
  4. Sheldon Eberhardt's High School Timeline. Retrieved April 22, 2017 (American English).
  5. ^ Matheny Announces Five Additions for Elon Phoenix Basketball. In: Greensboro Sports. August 29, 2015. Retrieved April 22, 2017 .
  6. Sheldon Eberhardt - Men's Basketball. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .
  7. Elon vs. William & Mary - Game Summary - January 19, 2019 - ESPN. Retrieved June 19, 2020 (English).
  8. Hofstra's Wright-Foreman Repeats As CAA Men's Basketball Player Of The Year. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .
  9. https://www.mz-web.de/sport/basketball/syntainics-mbc/mbc-holt-guard-aus-den-usa-sheldon-eberhardt-wird-der-naechste--wolf--32822124
  10. https://www.giants-leverkusen.de/index.php/teams/pro-a/news/543-sheldon-kommen-cooper- geht.html
  11. 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Player. Retrieved June 17, 2020 (German).
  12. GIANTS extend with Eberhardt and Winter. Retrieved June 17, 2020 .