Travis Warech
| Free Agent | |
|---|---|
| Position | Shooting guard / small forward |
| Personal information | |
| Born | July 5, 1991 Pine Brook, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
| Listed weight | 195 lb (88 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Montville (Montville, New Jersey) |
| College |
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| NBA draft | 2013: undrafted |
| Playing career | 2013–present |
| Career history | |
| 2013–2014 | Rockets Gotha |
| 2014–2015 | Riesen Ludwigsburg |
| 2015 | Hamburg Towers |
| 2015–2017 | Rasta Vechta |
| 2017–2018 | Maccabi Ashdod |
| 2018–2019 | Hapoel Be'er Sheva |
| 2019–2020 | Ironi Nahariya |
| 2020–2022 | Hapoel Be'er Sheva |
| 2022 | Hapoel Tel Aviv |
| Career highlights | |
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| Women's Basketball Hall of Fame | |
Travis Warech (Hebrew: טרוויס ווריק; born July 5, 1991) is an American professional basketball player who last played for Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. He played college basketball for Saint Michael's and Ithaca, before playing professionally in Germany and Israel.
Early life and college career
[edit | edit source]Warech was born and raised in the Pine Brook section of Montville, New Jersey, and is Jewish.[1][2] Warech attended Montville Township High School, where he was a three-year letter winner for the Mustangs. Warech was named team MVP and served as team captain during his junior and senior seasons.[3]
Warech played college basketball for the Saint Michael's College's Purple Knights and the Ithaca College's Bombers. In his senior year at Ithaca, he averaged 16 points, 8 rebounds, 1.3 assists, and 1.2 steals per game. He earned a spot on the All-Empire 8 Second Team.[3]
Professional career
[edit | edit source]Germany (2013–2017)
[edit | edit source]On October 18, 2013, Warech started his professional career with BiG Oettinger Rockets Gotha of the German ProA.[4] On April 8, 2014, Warech recorded a career-high 24 points, shooting 8-of-12 from the field, along with three rebounds in a 90–80 win over Crailsheim Merlins.[5] In 29 games played for Gotha, he averaged 10.0 points, 5.1 rebounds, 1.4 assists, and 1.0 steals per game.[6]
On June 27, 2014, Warech signed a two-year deal with Riesen Ludwigsburg of the German BBL.[7]
On October 29, 2015, Warech signed a one-year deal with Hamburg Towers, and he played seven games with the team.[8] However, on December 9, 2015, he parted ways with Hamburg and joined Rasta Vechta for the rest of the season.[9] Warech helped Rasta Vechta promote to the German BBL as the 2016 ProA Runner-up. In 26 games played during the 2015–16 season, he averaged 7.7 points and 3.5 rebounds per game, shooting 41.4 percent from 3-point range.[6]
Israel (2017–present)
[edit | edit source]On August 15, 2017, Warech signed with the Israeli team Maccabi Ashdod for the 2017–18 season.[10] On May 3, 2018, Warech recorded a season-high 19 points, along with three rebounds and two steals in an 85–65 blowout loss to Hapoel Jerusalem.[11] Warech helped Ashdod reach the 2018 Israeli League Playoffs, where they eventually were eliminated by Hapoel Tel Aviv in the Quarterfinals.
On June 20, 2018, Warech signed a one-year deal with Hapoel Be'er Sheva.[12] On April 7, 2019, Warech recorded a season-high 21 points, shooting 7-of-12 from the three-point range, along with three assists in a 97–88 loss to Maccabi Ashdod.[13] Warech helped Be'er Sheva reach the 2019 Israeli League Playoffs, where they eventually were eliminated by Hapoel Jerusalem in the Quarterfinals. In 29 games played for Be'er Sheva, he averaged 8.5 points and 2.7 rebounds, shooting 42.6 percent from three-point range.
On June 19, 2019, Warech signed with Ironi Nahariya for the 2019–20 season.[14] He averaged 7.6 points per game. On July 28, 2020, Warech returned to Hapoel Be'er Sheva.[15]
On July 14, 2022, he has signed with Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League.[16]
Maccabiah Games
[edit | edit source]In July 2017, Warech participated in the 2017 Maccabiah Games and helped the USA Men's basketball team win the tournament and earn a gold medal.[17] He played on the team with among others Jordan Cohen and Sam Singer.[18]
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External links
[edit | edit source]- 1991 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American Jews
- American expatriate basketball people in Germany
- American expatriate basketball people in Israel
- American men's basketball players
- Basketball players from Morris County, New Jersey
- Competitors at the 2017 Maccabiah Games
- Hamburg Towers players
- Hapoel Be'er Sheva B.C. players
- Ironi Nahariya players
- Ithaca Bombers men's basketball players
- Jewish American basketball people
- Maccabi Ashdod B.C. players
- Maccabiah Games gold medalists for the United States
- Maccabiah Games medalists in basketball
- Montville Township High School alumni
- Sportspeople from Montville, New Jersey
- Riesen Ludwigsburg players
- Rockets (basketball club) players
- Saint Michael's Purple Knights men's basketball players
- SC Rasta Vechta players
- Shooting guards
- Small forwards
- Jews from New Jersey
- 21st-century American sportsmen