Assaf Lowengart ( he, אסף לוונגרט; born March 1, 1998) is an Israeli

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player. He is a

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for the

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in the

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. He also plays for Team Israel, and most notably during the

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Early life

He is the son of

Oded Lowengart Oded Lowengart is Professor of Marketing at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel, where he holds the Ernest Scheller Jr. Chair in Innovative Management. His two terms as Dean of the Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Manag ...

and Ayelet Lowengart. His hometown is

Timorim Timorim ( he, תִּמּוֹרִים) is a moshav shitufi in central Israel. Located on the Israeli coastal plain around a kilometer south of the Malakhi Junction, near the town of Kiryat Malakhi, it falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Re ...

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. He attended high school in

Be'er Tuvia Regional Council Be'er Tuvia Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית באר טוביה, ''Mo'atza Azorit Be'er Tovia''), is a regional council in the southern Coastal Plain region in Israel. It borders Yoav and Nahal Sorek regional councils in the east; ...

. He then served in the

Israel Defense Forces The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; he, צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the Israel, State of Israel. It consists of three servic ...

College

In 2020, Lowengart attended SUNY Sullivan Community College in New York State. He also played for Team Misgav in Israel in 2020. In 2021, Lowengart attended

Mansfield University of Pennsylvania Mansfield University of Pennsylvania is a campus of Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania and it is located it in Mansfield, Pennsylvania. Part of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE), the campus' total enrollment is 1,6 ...

in Pennsylvania. He played

for the

in the

. In 2021, he batted .290/.394/.645 with 11

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s (3rd in the conference) and 26 RBIs in 107

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s. In 2022, he again played for Mansfield. He batted .356/.419/.678 with 19 doubles (5th in the conference), 11 home runs (9th), and 45 RBIs in 174 at bats, while playing 27 games in center field, 14 games at shortstop, 4 games at third base, and one game each in left field and right field.

Team Israel

Lowengart competed on the

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for qualification for the 2020 Olympics. He also played for the team at the Africa/Europe 2020 Olympic Qualification tournament in Italy in September 2019, which Israel won to qualify to play

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in Tokyo.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lowengart, Assaf 1989 births Living people 20th-century Israeli military personnel Israeli baseball players Israeli Jews Jewish baseball players 2019 European Baseball Championship players Mansfield Mounties baseball players Baseball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic baseball players of Israel