Skyler Bowlin

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Basketball player
Skyler Bowlin
Player information
birthday July 13, 1989
place of birth Paragould (AR), USA
size 192 cm
position Shooting Guard /
Point Guard
college Missouri Southern State
Club information
society S.Oliver Würzburg
league Basketball Bundesliga
Clubs as active
2007–2011 MSSU Lions ( NCAA Div II) 2011–2012 Topstar Kangaroos 2012–2015 Horsens IC 2013 → WBC Raiffeisen Wels 2015–2016 Södertälje Kings 2016–2017 Gießen 46ers 2017–2018 Science City Jena Since 2018 S.Oliver WürzburgUnited StatesUnited States
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Skyler Bowlin (born July 13, 1989 in Paragould , Arkansas ) is an American basketball player . After studying in his home country, Bowlin began a professional career in the second German ProA league with the then promoted top star Kangaroos Leitershofen, before playing in the top divisions in Denmark and Sweden as well as for a game in the Austrian Bundesliga . In Denmark, Bowlin won the double with Horsens IC in 2015 and was named Player of the Year in the Danish championship, as well as the following year in the 2016 final series of the Swedish championship when he won the championship with Södertälje Kings. Then Bowlin returned to Germany and played in the top division basketball Bundesliga for the Gießen 46ers, for Science City Jena and then in Würzburg.

Career

Bowlin was already known during his school days at Greene County Tech High School in his hometown as an outstanding distance shooter for the school team Golden Eagles , with which he won a school championship in the 5A Conference of Arkansas as an MVP. After graduating from school, however, it was not enough for a scholarship to an ambitious college of the first division of the NCAA.Instead , Bowlin began studying at Missouri Southern State University, relatively close to his hometown in Joplin, Missouri , whose college team Lions in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) of Division II of the NCAA plays. In his first year, Bowlin was named the best newcomer to the league ( Freshman of the Year ) at the MIAA Conference. In his senior year, the Lions with the best record of all teams won the main round of the MIAA for the first time since 2000, but lost the final game in the MIAA championship tournament. The season for the Lions and Bowlins NCAA careers ended with a significant loss to the Mustangs of Midwestern State University in the second game of the national finals of the second division, with Bowlin finishing in the top ten in various categories of the all-time Lions leaderboard. In his senior year, Bowlin was named Player of the Year for the MIAA in general and Defender of the Year in particular, as well as an All-American award for the nation's best player in the second division.

With an apprenticeship in a university team in the second division, Bowlin did not have the best qualifications for a career as a professional basketball player and so, despite his individual awards, he was neither selected in a draft procedure of the professional leagues in his home country nor did he get a contract in one lucrative top division outside of his home country. Nevertheless, Bowlin began a professional career and signed his first contract with the top star Kangaroos from Leitershofen near Augsburg , who played as promoted players in the second-highest German division ProA 2011/12 . After not participating, they played with one team less in that season in which the promoted team was the only team to be relegated again as bottom of the table despite seven wins this season in 28 games. Bowlin then moved to Denmark to the Idræts Club from Horsens in the local top division Basketligaen . In the first two seasons, Bowlin and his team failed in the play-off semifinal series for the Danish championship against defending champion Bakken Bears . In between, Bowlin had played a game for WBC Raiffeisen from Wels in the Austrian Bundesliga at the beginning of the 2013/14 season , but immediately returned to Denmark for the Horsens IC. After Bowlin had scored almost 20 points per game in his first two seasons in the Basketligaen, he achieved a good 16 points per game in his third season, but increased his success rates both from the near and middle range as well as from the distance from behind the three-point line , where he came to a strong 46% and was finally awarded after the cup victory of the main round Horsens IC as player of the year also the Basketligaen. Behind the main round first Bakken Bears, Horsens IC reached the play-off final series for the championship this time, in which the defending champion was defeated after four wins in six games, won the championship for the first time in nine years and after the first title in 1992 again that Double from championship and cup competition.

After Bowlin had achieved practically everything in Denmark, he switched to the Swedish basket league with the Kings from Södertälje for the 2015/16 season . The defending champion of the Swedish championship, who had won the last three titles, reached the final series again in that season, in which they remained unbeaten against the Norrköping Dolphins after only a single defeat in twelve games of the Swedish play-offs. Bowlin was named the best player in the final series of the Swedish championship. Bowlin had previously competed with the Swedish champion in the FIBA Europe Cup 2015/16 and lost twice in the second group phase to the eventual German title winner Skyliners Frankfurt , after which the team was subsequently eliminated from the competition. For the following season Bowlin returned to Germany and now played in the top German basketball league, also in Hesse with the old master 46ers from Gießen . With the Giesseners, Bowlin just barely missed a placement for the play-offs for the German championship in ninth place in the main round table of the basketball Bundesliga 2016/17 . Shortly after the end of the season, Bowlin was announced for the coming season as a new signing for the league competitor Science City from Jena , who had previously been placed in 13th place behind the Giessen team as a newcomer.

At the end of May 2018, S.Oliver Würzburg announced Bowlin's commitment, there he would  play under coach Denis Wucherer as in Gießen .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ Missouri Southern State Athletics - Skyler Bowlin - 2010-11. Missouri Southern State University , accessed May 11, 2017 (English, profile and history).
  2. ↑ List of MIAA Men's Basketball Champions. Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association: themiaa.com, accessed on May 11, 2017 (English, listing of champions in men's basketball).
  3. ↑ Lions falling 89-83 to Fort Hays in MIAA championship game. Missouri Southern State University , March 6, 2011, accessed May 12, 2017 (media info).
  4. ↑ Lions season ends with 75-52 loss in regional semi finals to Midwestern State. Missouri Southern State University , March 13, 2011, accessed May 11, 2017 (media info).
  5. ^ Skyler Bowlin named first-team NABC All-District / Jason Adams second team. Missouri Southern State University , March 15, 2011, accessed May 11, 2017 (media info).
  6. ^ NABC Division II All-America Teams - 2010-11 All-America Team. National Association of Basketball Coaches: NABC.org, accessed May 11, 2017 (list of all award-winning players / Bowlin is referred to here as Skyler Brown ).
  7. ↑ PLAYER: Skyler Bowlin. oebl.at , accessed on May 11, 2017 (profile with statistics).
  8. ↑ Skyler Bowlin Player Profile ... RealGM.net, accessed on May 11, 2017 (English, profile with statistics).
  9. ↑ Basketligaen priser: BL kåringer. Basketligaen , accessed 11 May 2017 (Danish, list of individual awards).
  10. ↑ Thomas Sauer Hvidholm: “I'm very excited about my next move” - Skyler Bowlin. MereBuePaa.com, June 8, 2015, accessed May 12, 2017 (Danish).
  11. ↑ Kings är svenska mästare för fjärde året i rad. Basketligan , April 28, 2016, accessed May 11, 2017 (Swedish, media info).
  12. ↑ The GIESSEN 46ers bring Skyler Bowlin out of the 1st Swedish League (SBBF). Giessen 46ers , May 4, 2016, accessed on May 11, 2017 (media info).
  13. Jump from Giessen to Jena: Science City signs Skyler Bowlin. Thüringer Allgemeine , May 11, 2017, accessed on May 11, 2017 .
  14. ↑ https://www.soliver-wuerzburg.de/news/newsdetails/jahr/2018/mai/meldung/skyler-bowlin-wechselelt-nach-unterfranken/?tx_ttnews%5Bday%5D=24&cHash=8ea4019f74a81908d2439c503b9fdd45
personal data
SURNAME Bowlin, Skyler
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Paragould , Arkansas, USA