Jordan Cohen (ג'ורדן כהן; born July 31, 1997) is an American-Israeli basketball player for Maccabi Haifa in the Israel Basketball Premier League, who plays the

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position.

Early life

Cohen was born in Tarzana, California, and is Jewish. He is 6" 2" tall, and weighs 185 pounds. He attended Campbell Hall High School ('16) in Studio City, California.

Maccabiah Games and college

Cohen played basketball on Team USA in the

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, as the youngest player on the team. He averaged 6.2 points per game, as the team won the

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. He played on the team with among others Sam Singer and Travis Warech. He attended and played basketball for Lehigh University, where Cohen majored in Finance ('20). Playing for the

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he averaged 9.3 points per game as a sophomore. He was team captain his junior and senior years. His senior season he averaging 14.2 points per game, and ranked sixth in the Patriot League in three-point percentage (38.1 percent). His junior year and senior years he was named Third-Team All-

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. He was named to the Academic All-Patriot League team for his last three years.

Professional career

In August 2020 Cohen signed a one-year contract with Maccabi Haifa, in the Israel Basketball Premier League.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cohen, Jordan Living people American expatriate basketball people in Israel Basketball players from Los Angeles Lehigh Mountain Hawks men's basketball players Israeli men's basketball players Jewish men's basketball players Maccabiah Games medalists in basketball 1997 births American men's basketball players Maccabi Haifa B.C. players People from Tarzana, Los Angeles Competitors at the 2017 Maccabiah Games Maccabiah Games gold medalists for the United States Jewish American sportspeople Jewish Israeli sportspeople Israeli people of American-Jewish descent 21st-century American Jews