Sonja Greinacher

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Sonja Greinacher
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Information about the player
Full name Sonja Greinacher
Nickname Sunny
birthday July 1, 1992
place of birth Essen , Germany
size 1.88 m
position wing
Jersey number 14th

Sonja Greinacher (born July 1, 1992 in Essen ) is a 1.88 m tall German national basketball player .

career

First stop her basketball career was the ETB SW Essen with which they in 2007 the title of German Champion of the U16 won. With the U16 national team she celebrated the return from the B to the A group at the 2007 European B Championship .

In 2008 she went to Willamette High School in Oregon . There she celebrated the title of State Champion with the team and was voted the best female player (Final MVP ).

In 2009 she moved to the German club New Baskets Oberhausen , where she was able to achieve 6 points and 4 rebounds per game with an average of 16 minutes of play . With the U18 team of the DBB she drove to the European Championship , where she was successful with 14.4 points and 10.1 rebounds.

For the 2011/2012 season she moved to the USA to the Gonzaga Bulldogs , the college team of Gonzaga University , where she was used in 34 games. With the team she made it into the NCAA Tournament , to which she was able to contribute with an average of four points and two rebounds with an operating time of eleven minutes per game.

In 2011 she was appointed to the senior national team of the German national women's basketball team for the first time by the then national coach Andreas Wagner .

In 2013 and 2014 she was with the "Gonzaga Bulldogs" champions in the West Coast Conference , where she had a large share in 2013 with twelve points in the final against San Diego. In the 2013/2014 season she was voted Most Valuable Player of the West Coast Conference. Also in 2014 she was nominated again for the senior national team by national coach Alexandra Maerz .

By the end of the 2014/15 season, she played a total of 135 games for Gonzaga and averaged 9.8 and 4.6 rebounds per encounter.

Between 2015 and 2017 she played at the Herner TC in the Bundesliga, with the 2015/16 season according to statistical values ​​being the most successful of the two years for her personally with 15.3 points, 7.2 rebounds and 1.1 blocked throws which she was named the best German Bundesliga player of the season by the internet service eurobasket.com .

In the 2017/18 season, Greinacher was under contract with the Polish first division club Wislau Krakau and also took part in the Euroleague with the team . She moved to Basket 90 Gdynia within the league during the 2018 summer break. In August 2019 she became German champion in the basketball game "3-on-3" .

Individual evidence

  1. Article in the online part of the magazine Der Westen , accessed on March 13, 2014.
  2. http://web1.ncaa.org/stats/StatsSrv/careerplayer
  3. http://basketball.eurobasket.com/player/Sonja_Greinacher/Poland/Basket-90-Gdynia/131872?Women=1
  4. http://www.eurobasket.com/Germany/basketball-League-DBBL_2015-2016.asp?women=1
  5. https://www.waz.de/sport/lokalsport/herne-wanne-eickel/piotrowski-bastelt-an-komplett-neuem-team-id211130273.html
  6. http://www.fiba.basketball/euroleaguewomen/17-18/player/Sonja-Greinacher
  7. https://sport.trojmiasto.pl/Sonja-Greinacher-nowa-podkoszowa-w-Baskecie-90-Gdynia-n124443.html
  8. ING 3x3 German Championship Hamburg 2019. Retrieved on August 4, 2019 .

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