Trenton Meacham
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| Full name | Trenton Meacham | |
| birthday | 26th September 1985 (age 34) | |
| place of birth | Champaign , Illinois , USA | |
| size | 188 cm | |
| position | Point Guard / Shooting Guard | |
| college | Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
| Club information | ||
| society | JSF Nanterre | |
| league | LNB Pro A | |
| Jersey number | 14th | |
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2004–2005 Dayton Flyers ( NCAA ) 2006–2009 UIUC Fighting Illinois (NCAA) 2009–2010 WBC Raiffeisen Wels 2010–2011 BG 74 Göttingen 2011–2012 Paris-Levallois Basket Since 2012 JSF Nanterre   
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Trenton Meacham (born September 26, 1985 in Champaign , Illinois ) is an American basketball player . After studying in his home country, Meacham turned professional and initially played one season each in the Austrian and German Bundesliga. Meacham has been playing in France's top division LNB Pro A since 2011, where he has been active for JSF Nanterre since December 2012.
Career
Meacham first went to study at the University of Dayton in the city of the same name in Ohio , where he played for the university team Flyers in the Atlantic 10 Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . After a season he left the college and returned to his hometown, where he continued his studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . According to the rules of the NCAA, a year was not eligible to play in championship games before he was able to continue his college career as a basketball player with the Fighting Illinois . 2007 and 2009 reached the national final of the NCAA , in which one was eliminated in the first round. In 2009 they were also finalists in the championship tournament of the Big Ten Conference .
After finishing his studies in 2009, Meacham started a professional career in the Austrian basketball league with the reigning champions WBC Raiffeisen from Wels . As the defending champion you reach the play-offs for the championship in fourth place , in which you had to admit defeat to the Arkadia Traiskirchen Lions in the first round after five games . For the following season, Meacham moved to the reigning EuroChallenge winner BG 74 Göttingen , where his former teammate Chester Frazier had also played. At the first participation in the higher quality European club competition Eurocup 2010/11 , the team did respectable and reached the knockout games in the quarterfinals. As seventh in the main round of the basketball Bundesliga 2010/11 , they also failed in the first play-off round against former runner-up Deutsche Bank Skyliners .
For the 2011/12 season Meacham moved to the top division of France to Paris-Levallois Basket. With this club he returned to the play-offs of the French championship, where they were eliminated from Meacham's point of view in the quarter-finals. For the following season he moved within the LNB Pro A to JSF from Nanterre . With the Parisian suburbs, Meacham surprisingly won the French championship in 2013 and the French cup competition the following year, where he was voted the most valuable player in the cup final.
Web links
- Trenton & Meacham - Nanterre - Joueurs - Pro A - player profile on the websites of the French LNB (French)
- Trenton Meacham (BG Göttingen) - player profile on statistics pages of the basketball leagues (as of 2011)
- Trenton Meacham. Basketballliga.at - Statistics on the statistics pages of the ÖBL
- Trent Meacham profiles. fightingillini.com - Profile and statistics on the UIUC sports websites
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ Trent Meacham Joins Illinois Squad. (No longer available online.) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Aug. 24, 2005, archived from the original on Nov. 3, 2013 ; Retrieved on April 9, 2013 (English, media information for university sports Fighting Illinois). 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.
- ↑ Daniel Endres: Trenton Meacham wants to make decisions for himself. Göttinger Tageblatt , September 10, 2010, accessed on April 10, 2013 .
- ↑ Meacham, Trenton. ULEB , accessed on April 10, 2013 (English, player profile).
- ^ Nanterre Salvage Season With Cup Trophy. FIBA Europa , May 12, 2014, accessed June 21, 2014 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Meacham, Trenton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meacham, Trent |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Champaign (Illinois) , USA |