Brendan Winters (born May 9, 1983) is an American former
basketball
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player. He is best known for his
All-American college career at
Davidson College
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. He is also the son of former
National Basketball Association
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(NBA) player and coach
Brian Winters
Brian Joseph Winters (born March 1, 1952) is an American former basketball player and coach.
Career
Winters attended academic and athletic powerhouse Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens, New York, graduating in 1970. He then played collegia ...
.
Winters led
Mullen High School
Mullen High School (formerly J.K. Mullen High School) is a Roman Catholic, Brothers of the Christian Schools, college-preparatory high school in Denver, Colorado. It is run independently within the Archdiocese of Denver.
History
Mullen High Sc ...
in
Denver
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,
Colorado
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, to a 5A state championship in 2001. After receiving no
Division I college scholarship offers, he opted to attend a year of prep school at
Worcester Academy
Worcester Academy is a private school in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is the oldest educational institution founded in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, and one of the oldest day-boarding schools in the United States. A coeducational prepara ...
.
He was recruited by coach
Bob McKillop
Robert McKillop (born July 13, 1950) is an American college basketball coach who is the former head coach of the Davidson Wildcats men's team of the Atlantic 10 Conference.
Early basketball career
Born in Queens, New York, McKillop grew up in Qu ...
after his prep school year.
At Davidson, Winters became a four-year starter and one of the top players in the
Southern Conference
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(SoCon). He averaged 12.4 points per game as a freshman in
2002â03, then raised his average to 17.8 as a sophomore. In that sophomore season, Winters was named to the All-Southern Conference team. Winters' junior season was a special one for both him and the
Davidson Wildcats
The Davidson Wildcats are the NCAA Division I intercollegiate athletics teams representing Davidson College of Davidson, North Carolina, United States. A member of the Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10), Davidson College sponsors teams in ten men's ...
. The team went a perfect 16â0 in the SoCon and Winters was named
conference player of the year by both the conference media and coaches.
As a senior, Winters and Davidson were not able to replicate their perfect season of the year before, but they earned a bid to the
2006 NCAA Tournament by winning the
SoCon Tournament, with Winters winning MVP honors.
Following the end of his college career, Winters went undrafted in the
2006 NBA draft. He went to France to play for
Nantes
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of the
LNB Pro B
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, averaging 15.4 points per game for the season.
He then spent the next three seasons in Germany with
Bayer Giants Leverkusen
Bayer Giants Leverkusen is a professional basketball club, part of the TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen sports club based in Leverkusen, Germany. It currently plays in ProA, the second division of German basketball.
Based on the number of titles, Leverku ...
, and was named a
Bundesliga
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All-Star in 2010. Winters split the 2010â11 season between
AtomerÅmű SE
AtomerÅmű SE, sometimes shortened to ASE, is a Hungarian professional basketball team based in Paks. The team plays in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I/A, the highest professional league in Hungary. The team was founded in 1979 and has won the Hungaria ...
in Hungary and
Aris B.C.
Aris Basketball Club ( el, ÎÏÎ·Ï K.A.E., transliterated into English Aris B.S.A.) known in European competitions as Aris Thessaloniki, is the professional basketball team of the major Thessaloniki-based Greece, Greek multi-sport club Aris Th ...
in Greece.
[
Following his professional basketball career, Winters returned to the United States to help found a youth basketball organization.][
]
References
External links
French League profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Winters, Brendan
1983 births
Living people
American expatriate basketball people in France
American expatriate basketball people in Germany
American expatriate basketball people in Greece
American expatriate basketball people in Hungary
American men's basketball players
Aris B.C. players
AtomerÅmű SE players
Basketball players from Denver
Bayer Giants Leverkusen players
Davidson Wildcats men's basketball players
Shooting guards