Darrel Lewis
American and Icelandic basketball player
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Darrel Keith Lewis is an American and Icelandic professional basketball player who last played for Þór Akureyri in the Icelandic Úrvalsdeild karla.[1] He was named the Úrvalsdeild Foreign Player of the year in 2004[2] and selected to the Domestic All-First Team in 2015.[3]
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| Born | February 13, 1976 | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | American / Icelandic | ||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 192 cm (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 86 kg (190 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| High school | Coatesville Area (Coatesville, Pennsylvania) | ||||||||||||||
| College | Lincoln (1996–1999) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 1999–2017 | ||||||||||||||
| Position | Guard/forward | ||||||||||||||
| Career history | |||||||||||||||
| 1999 | Youngstown Hawks | ||||||||||||||
| 2001–2002 | Haaglanden NTNT | ||||||||||||||
| 2002–2005 | Grindavík | ||||||||||||||
| 2005–2006 | Aironi Novara | ||||||||||||||
| 2006–2007 | Sporting Athens | ||||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Crabs Rimini | ||||||||||||||
| 2008 | AEK B.C. | ||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Peristeri B.C. | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Ikaros Kallitheas | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | AEK/Argous | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | OFI | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2014 | Keflavík | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2016 | Tindastóll | ||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Þór Akureyri | ||||||||||||||
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Medals
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Lewis has reached the Úrvalsdeild finals twice, in 2003 with Grindavík[4][5] and in 2015 with Tindastóll.[6]
College career
Lewis played for Lincoln University from 1996 to 1999 and ended his career there as the schools the all-time leading scorer with 2,294 points. He was inducted into the Lincoln Lions Athletic Hall of Fame in 2013.[7]
National team career
Lewis became an Icelandic citizen in December 2004[8][9] and was selected to the Icelandic national basketball team in 2005. He played four games during the 2005 Games of the Small States of Europe.[10]