Grant Billmeier is a former European professional basketball player and currently Assistant Coach for

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Career

Billmeier is listed at 6'10," 252 lb

and is a former player of the

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in the Big East. A resident of Pennington, New Jersey,Caldwell, Dave
"Gonzalez's Approach Is Change for Seton Hall"
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'', April 8, 2006. Accessed February 15, 2011. "Grant Billmeier, a junior center from Pennington, N.J., said that 'quite a few' Seton Hall players had talked about transferring when they found out that Gonzalez was being considered as Orr's replacement." Billmeier attended

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there for his freshman year, and then transferred to St. Patrick High School in

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where he played for the remainder of his high school career.Grant Billmeier
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. Accessed September 16, 2007. He wore the number 33 at St. Patrick's, but wore 41 at Seton Hall his freshman and sophomore years because the number 33 was already taken by Andre Sweet. Upon Sweet's graduation, Billmeier had his number changed back to 33. He was recruited as a three star prospect as per Scout.com. In 2007, he went overseas to join Würzburg Baskets (German 3rd division), where he was the starting center and helped his team to finish 3rd in the league. After one season in Würzburg, fan favorite Billmeier joined AD Vagos. In 2008, Billmeier started a basketball summer camp with longtime friend and former Villanova star Mike Nardi. Billmeier became an assistant coach of his alma mater team in the 2010.

Awards

*Robin Cunningham Award for best academics *Richie Regan Award *All-State Second Team selection (H.S.)

References

External links

Seton Hall Pirates profileScout.com ReportChicagoSports Rivals Report
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