Walter Simon (basketball player)

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Basketball player
Walter Simon
Walter Simon (2016)
Player information
birthday July 12, 1989
place of birth Dresden , GDR
size 202 cm
Weight 97 kg
position wing
college Cumberland University
Clubs as active
until 2006 USV TU Dresden 2006–2009 TuS Lichterfelde / Alba Berlin 2009–2011 Cumberland University 2011–2013 Uni-Giant Leipzig 2013–2014 Mitteldeutscher BC 2014–2015 BV Chemnitz 99 2015–2017 Dresden Titans since 2017 TSV Ansbach0 GermanyGermany
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Walter Simon (born July 12, 1989 in Dresden ) is a German basketball player. He plays for TSV Ansbach .

career

Simon started playing basketball in his hometown at the USV TU Dresden before he went to Berlin as a teenager due to the better sporting prospects to continue his development at the school and competitive sports center there. He played in the youth department of Alba Berlin , whose then cooperation club TuS Lichterfelde, and was used for the second men's team in the first regional league.

In 2009 Simon went to the United States and played at Cumberland University in the state of Tennessee until 2011 . During this time he was used in a total of 59 NAIA games and averaged 11.2 points and 6.1 rebounds per game.

From 2011 to 2013 Simon was under contract with the Uni-Giants Leipzig for one season each in the 2nd Bundesliga ProB and 2nd Bundesliga ProA . In 2013 he switched to the basketball league for Mitteldeutscher BC . He played 17 Bundesliga games (points average: 1.2) for MBC and was  loaned to the second division for BV Chemnitz 99 for the 2014/15 season.

In 2015 he signed a contract with the Dresden Titans and reached the ProB semi-finals with the team. Due to the waiver of other contenders, Dresden rose to the ProA, where Simon became team captain. However, in the first year after being promoted to ProA, Simon did not stay in the class, and Simon went straight back to ProB with Dresden.

After leaving Dresden following the 2016/17 season, Simon went to Middle Franconia for professional reasons and from then on played at TSV Ansbach in the first regional league.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FANBLOCK-TV: FANBLOCK-TV: Basketball player Walter Simon back home. September 14, 2015, accessed March 4, 2017 .
  2. ↑ NBBL / JBBL - player statistics - - ALBA Berlin basketball team. Retrieved March 4, 2017 (American English).
  3. ↑ Streamline Technologies | Nashville, TN: Roster | Official Site of the Cumberland University Athletics. Retrieved March 4, 2017 (English).
  4. ↑ DakStats WebSync. Retrieved March 4, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Ingolf H. Neumann: Uni-Giant Leipzig sign Walter Simon for the 2011/12 season . In: leipzig-seiten.de . ( leipzig-seiten.de [accessed on March 4, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Stephan Jaensch, Jan Vesper, Marian Gaebler, Kirstopher Jelinek, Philip Richter (layout, HTML, CSS) - intosite GmbH: Interview with MBC player Walter Simon . ( urbanite.net [accessed March 4, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Basketball: MBC signs Walter Simon . In: The time . June 21, 2013, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed March 4, 2017]).
  8. ↑ Mitteldeutscher BC loaned Walter Simon to Chemnitz. Retrieved March 4, 2017 .
  9. ^ ProB: Titans sign home-grown Walter Simon | Dresden Titans. Retrieved on March 4, 2017 (German).
  10. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Titans coach appoints Walter Simon as captain. Retrieved on March 4, 2017 (German).
  11. ↑ http://www.dnn.de/Sport/Regionalsport/Walter-Simon-und-David-Sturner-verlassen-Dresden-Titans
  12. ↑ http://www.ansbach-piranhas.de/weiterer-hochkaraeter-fuer-ansbacher-basketballer/
personal data
SURNAME Simon, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden