Niels Giffey

Niels Giffey ( born June 8, 1991, Berlin ) is a German professional basketball player and currently plays for the team from the University of Connecticut. The 2.00 meter tall small forward played in 2013 as the youngest player on the national team its first championship.

Career

Giffeys played in his youth, first at the BBC and the Marzahn Basket bears, with their U16 team in 2006, he became German champion. He then played for TuS Lichterfelde Berlin, among others in the first team in the ProB 2007/ 08 under coach Matej Mamić. After descending from the ProB 2008, the collaboration of lights fields with the multiple German master master ALBA Berlin and Giffey ended joined the youth ranks of ALBA, where he met with some teammates from his time again in the Basket Bear 2009 in NBBL the German Championship of age class U19 reached. A year later, you missed the title defense in the final against Team ALBA Steingädele. For Giffey succeeded with the second team of ALBA Berlin in the regional promotion to the third highest German league ProB.

2010 Giffey began a study in the United States, where he received an athletic scholarship to the University of Connecticut. Their high school team Huskies was one of the leading teams of the former Big East Conference in the NCAA College Football. In his first season with the Huskies Giffey won the prestigious NCAA Men 's Division I Basketball Championship in 2011 and was there only the second German after his former NBBL ALBA coach Henrik Rödl with operating time in the final game in the title. [Note 1]

He went through all DBB junior national teams and in 2011 was fifth in the U20 European Championship. In the European Basketball Championship in 2013 he received from Head Coach Frank Menz average of 25 minutes of playing time and was immediately ordered a " starter " on the floor.