Torrell Martin

Torrell Martin
Torrell Martin (2008)
Player information
birthday	13th February 1985 (age 35)
place of birth	Columbia , South Carolina , United States
size	198 cm
position	Shooting Guard / Small Forward
college	Winthrop
Club information
society	Chorale Roanne
league	LNB Pro B
Clubs as active
2003–2007 Winthrop Eagles ( NCAA ) 2007–2008 Śląsk Wrocław 2008–2009 Kepez Belediyespor 2009 EK Kavalas 2009–2012 Eisbären Bremerhaven 2012–2013 SLUC Nancy Basket 2013 Orléans Loiret Basket 2013 Antibes Sharks 2014 Chorale Roanne 2014 ÉB Pau-Lacq-Orthez 2014 BC Orchies Since 2014 Chorale Roanne 00000 0000 00000 00000 00000 00000 0

Torrell Martin (born February 13, 1985 in Columbia , South Carolina ) is an American basketball player . After studying in his native US state , he played as a professional in Europe from 2007 . After stints in Poland , Turkey and Greece , he played for the Eisbären from Bremerhaven in the German basketball league from 2009 to 2012 . Then Martin played for various clubs in the French Ligue Nationale de Basket .

Career

During his studies at Winthrop University in Rock Hill , Martin was active for the University Team Eagles in the Big South Conference of the NCAA . The team made it into the national finals three times during his four-year college career , with a first-round surprise against the Fighting Irish at the University of Notre Dame in his senior year 2007 . This was the first success of a team from the Big South Conference in the finals tournament ever, in the following round they lost to the Ducks of the University of Oregon .

After graduating, Martin turned pro in 2007 and played his first season for Śląsk from Wroclaw in the PLK . The following season he entered the TBL for Kepez in the province of Antalya . The team started with nine defeats and after 15 games of the season the contract was broken and Martin moved to the Greek A1 Ethniki in Kavala . For the 2009/10 BBL season , Martin moved to the German first division club Eisbären Bremerhaven. The Eisbären had a disappointing sporting season behind them, which had ended on a relegation zone and in which relegation was only secured by acquiring a first division license that had become vacant. Under the new coach Douglas Spradley , the newly formed team including Martin managed to return to the play-offs for the German championship in the following two seasons.

After he could not intervene in the game in the second half of the 2011/2012 season due to injuries, Martin did not receive a new contract in Bremerhaven. At first he couldn't find a new club until he finally got a contract in France with SLUC Basket from Nancy in October after the former Bundesliga professional Jamal Shuler injured his cruciate ligament there. At the end of February 2013, Martin left the club again and moved to league rivals Loiret Basket from Orléans . After he completed two more games for his previous club at the beginning of the following 2013/14 season, he moved to league rivals Sharks from Antibes in mid-October to replace his long-term injured compatriot Anthony Hilliard . At the end of the year he left the club and was signed for another injured compatriot from Chorale Basket from Roanne at the beginning of 2014 , where he played under coach Luka Pavićević , who had already become German champions as a coach in 2008. After a month, the contract ended and Martin was signed by Élan Béarnais from Pau , who in the 2013/14 season was the fourth French first division team that Martin played for. But here, too, the contract was not renewed at the end of March 2014 and Martin played the end of the season with the second division from Orchies in Pro B. There he also plays in the 2014/15 season, after he was signed again by first division relegated Chorale Roanne.

Web links

• Torrell Martin - Joueurs - Pro B - player profile on the pages of the LNB ( French )
• easyCredit BBL - Torrell Martin - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• Torrell Martin Stats - Winthrop Eagles - statistics from college seasons at statsheet.com ( English )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Associated Press : Winthrop victory notches first tourney win for Big South - Did You Know? ESPN , accessed August 7, 2011 . 
2. ^ Nans Even: Torrell Martin pigiste médical d'Anthony Hilliard. (No longer available online.) Olympique d'Antibes , October 15, 2013, archived from the original on October 15, 2013 ; accessed on October 15, 2013 (French, media info). 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.  
3. ↑ AFP : Transfer - Pro A: Torrell Martin pigiste médical à Roanne. Ligue Nationale de Basket , January 8, 2014, accessed January 9, 2014 (French).