Stuart Robbins

Stuart Paul Robbins ( born November 2, 1976 in Neath, Wales, † April 12, 2010 in Galway, Ireland) was a Welsh professional basketball player. During his career, he played most of the time in the German 2nd Bundesliga basketball for the Braves from Kaiserslautern and a season for Bayern Munich. After the season 2009/10 played in Ireland, died in the Welsh national team suddenly and unexpectedly in his sleep at age 33.

Career

While studying in the United States, Robbins also tried in U.S. basketball college teams. He stood briefly at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia in the squad of the Hawks in the NCAA. He also played for the Warriors of the Wabash Valley Community College in Mount Carmel (Illinois ).

1999 Robbins returned back to the UK and played for the Thames Valley Tigers in the British Basketball League. In the final round of the championship runner-up last year in the semifinals was denied by the defending London Towers. The following season, 2000/ 01 Robbins played in the Belgian Bree, where he successfully participated with the local club also little on Korać Cup, when they lost all six group matches in the first group stage. For the following season, he returned to the "island" back and played for the London Towers, who had previously forfeited the championship against the Leicester Riders. Nevertheless, the former champion with Robbins was allowed to rejoin the highest European club competition ULEB Euro League 2001 / 02, however, where one was still unsuccessful on the previous year and lost every two preliminary round games. In the national championship the Towers excreted again in the semifinals of the final round. In the following season they lost the final of the League Cup competition BBL Trophy only just two points, but reached the championship only a midfield position and was eliminated in the final round in the first round.

2003 Robbins again left the island and moved to the basketball team of the 1st FC Kaiserslautern in second German League Group South. The second league Newcomer of the year had been able to hold only by the withdrawal of the basketball team of Eintracht Frankfurt, a number of other prominent football club that class. In subsequent years, the Kaiserslautern were able to establish in the league and reached in 2005 and 2006 in the Southern group each a fourth place among sixteen teams. In the season 2006/ 07 they failed just wide of the rise in the national basketball league, as you as a table runner only a defeat more than did the promoted POM baskets Jena. Subsequently, the basketball team separated from the main club and joined independently as Kaiserslautern Braves in the newly created ProA, which united the sixteen best teams in the previous regional groups of the second division. Here they finished in the ProA 2007/ 08 with the third place again the best non- promotion place. While the Braves then moved to Homburg, Robbins left the club and moved to another, especially in the football club successful. The basketball team of FC Bayern Munich had returned to the second division and skipped the ProB by took over the license of Dusseldorf Magics. In the ProA 2008/ 09, the climber was able to achieve a secure mid-table.

In the season 2009/10 Robbins left Germany and moved to the professional team Eagles of the University of Limerick in the Irish Super League. In addition, he also took over duties as assistant coach and as coach of the college team. After a college tournament he apparently died unexpectedly in his sleep in his hotel room in Galway. In Germany, the grief was great, so we organized a year later, on the initiative of his former club Saar-Pfalz Braves a memory game in his honor.