Jarrett Hart
Albert Jarrett Hart (born 4 November 1980 as Wandsworth, Greater London ) is a British professional basketball player. Hart grew up in Arkansas and has the American nationality. After the end of the study in the U.S. was hard professional in Europe and played in different countries. Since 2006 he plays for various Greek and Cypriot clubs, most recently since 2012 for Athletiki Enosi Kitiou from Larnaca. In 2009 he took part with the British national team at the European Championship finals in 2009.
Career
Youth and College (until 2004)
Hart went to Little Rock to school and won along with the future NBA All-Star Joe Johnson in the basketball team of Little Rock Central High School 1999 State Championships of Arkansas. He then went to the University of Oklahoma and played for the high school team Sooners in the Big 12 Conference of NCAA Division I. A kidney injury and a death in the family meant that he could not prevail at the Sooners and hard it moved to a year ago, first return again to his native Arkansas and at the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith enroll. There he played for the high school team Lions in the National Junior College Athletic Association ( NJCAA ), in which he was a member of this league to the nation's best players ( " All-American "). Through his performances he got after two years also got the opportunity to play for a college team NCAA Division I and Hart moved in 2002 to the Kansas State University. Its high school team, Wildcats, who play in the same conference as the Oklahoma Sooners, is one of the most successful basketball teams in the NCAA, even though they succeeded in not qualifying for the national finals of the NCAA between 1996 and 2008, so that even hard never a game in the "March Madness " graduated.
Short-term contracts in Europe (2004 to 2006)
Hart got in 2004 a contract with the Croatian Cup winners from Šibenik. After Christmas, he joined the club and went to the Israeli Ligat ha Al to Maccabi in Givat Shmuel. After the season hard again left the club and completed at the beginning of the 2005/06 season seven games with the BBC from the Nyon, Switzerland. After exposure to the Italian Legadue smashed the year due to back problems, could be hard distinguish from Zalaegerszeg to the end of the season at the Hungarian first division ZTE.
Exposure to Greece and Cyprus ( since 2006)
2006 Hart got a contract in Greek A2 Ethniki at Colossus of Rhodes and played the entire season of 2006 /07 with this club with which he ascended A1 Ethniki in the top division at the end of the season. For the following season, he moved to Cyprus, where he played the following three years for Keravnos from Nicosia. In his first season they won the 2008 Cypriot Championship. The following season would retire in European club competition Euro Challenge, in which the Cypriot club AEL Limassol had the year before the Final Four reached and oriented after only one victory that was at home against the German representatives Telekom Baskets Bonn in six games in the first round from. In the Cypriot Cup they lost the final series against the basketball team of local rivals APOEL Nicosia. In the summer of 2009, Hart took the British national for the first time participated in a European Championship finals. After three defeats to the eventual semi-finalists Slovenia, Spain and Serbia are different however in the first group stage. In the following season Keravnos already retired from the semi-final of the Championship and Hart left the club. At the beginning of the 2010/11 season he was planning an engagement at the Beijing Olympian, who play in the ABA, but then played for the traditional basketball team AEK Athens. However, AEK Athens came after the loss of sponsors in severe financial and sporty water and rose at the end of the season from the highest Greek League from. Hart was the club for breach of complaints in the end of the season no longer help and so also missed the finals in 2011 with the British National Team. In early 2012 he had then made a comeback again in Cyprus at AEK Larnaca. Persistent Achilles tendon problems prevented an attendance with the British national team at the 2012 Olympics in his hometown of London.