Brasheedah Elohim

Brasheedah Elohim (Hebrew: בראשידה אלוהים; born November 1, 1980)[1] is an American-Israeli basketball player and tennis player. During her professional women's basketball career in Israel, she played for Ramat HaSharon, Ashdod, Ramla, and Jerusalem. She was a member of the 2016 Israel women's national basketball team.[2]

Brasheedah Elohim
Elohim cuts the net after her team wins the 2012 championship
Personal information
Born (1980-11-01) November 1, 1980
Virgin Islands
NationalityIsraeli
Listed height5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Career information
High schoolOnteora High School
CollegeUniversity of Maryland Eastern Shore (2000–2002)
Fayetteville State University (2002–2004)
Playing career2007–2016
PositionPower forward
Career history
2007–2008Elitzur Ramla
2008–2009Maccabi Bnot Ashdod
2009–2010A.S.A. Jerusalem
2010–2011Raanana Herzliya
2011–2012Maccabi Bnot Ashdod
2012–2015A.S. Ramat HaSharon

Biography

Brasheedah Elohim was born in the Virgin Islands[3] and grew up in Mount Tremper, New York. She is Jewish.[1] Her mother changed the family's surname to Elohim (Hebrew for "God") because she did not want her children to carry "the name of a slave".[lower-alpha 1][4][6]

Elohim attended Onteora High School in Boiceville, New York, where she was one of the few girls' basketball players to score more than 1,000 points in her high school career.[7]

University

From 2000 to 2002 she attended the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in Princess Anne, Maryland, where she was a substitute player for the university's Division 1 basketball team.[5] She averaged 7.4 points per game in 2000–2001 and 10.8 points per game in 2001–2002.[5] She then moved to Fayetteville State University (FSU) in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where she was a starting guard for the Division 2 Lady Broncos team from 2002 to 2004.[5] Averaging 12.3 points per game, she had a career total of 687 points.[1][8]

Elohim was also a player on the FSU tennis team from 2003 to 2004, compiling a 46–2 record.[8] In 2003 she won the CIAA doubles championship, but lost in the finals of the parallel doubles championship.[5] In 2004 she won the CIAA First Singles final and was named Most Outstanding Women's Tennis Player; that year, FSU won the CIAA Women's Tennis Championship.[9]

Maryland, Eastern Shore and Fayetteville State statistics

Source[10]

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high
Year Team GP Points FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1999-00 Maryland, Eastern Shore 22 164 44.6% 33.3% 62.2% 5.0 0.9 1.4 0.2 7.5
2000-01 Maryland, Eastern Shore 26 282 32.5% 22.9% 58.7% 7.1 2.3 2.0 0.3 10.8
2001-02 Fayetteville State 28 370 40.6% 25.0% 68.0% 7.6 1.1 2.3 0.6 13.2
2002-03 Fayetteville State 28 317 38.6% 25.0% 65.9% 6.5 0.9 1.9 0.5 11.3
Career 104 1133 38.2% 24.8% 64.2% 6.6 1.3 1.9 0.4 10.9

Post-college

In 2005 Elohim played in the Women's Blue Chip Basketball League as one of the starting five players for the Jonesboro Flames.[3] She was named to the 2005 WBCBL All-Star Game.[3] In 2006 she played for the Atlanta Flames.[3] In May 2007, she was a guest player for A.S. Ramat HaSharon in an exhibition game against the Washington Mystics.[11]

Professional career

In 2007 Elohim immigrated to Israel and received Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return. She signed with Elitzur Ramla for the 2007–2008 season.[8] Although she did not distinguish herself during the season, she came off the bench during the fourth game in the best-of-five EuroCup semifinals with A.S. Ramat HaSharon and scored a season-high 11 points and five rebounds, helping Ramla beat Ramat HaSharon 87–74 and forcing a fifth game.[12]

For the 2008–2009 season she signed with Maccabi Bnot Ashdod.[3] In 2009–2010 she played with A.S.A. Jerusalem, and in 2010–2011 was a member of Raanana Hertzliya.[3] For the 2011–2012 season she played with Maccabi Bnot Ashdod.[3] In 2012 she moved to A.S. Ramat HaSharon, where she played through 2015.[3] Her manager on the latter team lauded her as a veteran presence for younger players.[13] In the 2013–2014 season she averaged 4 points, 5 rebounds, and 1.5 assists per game.[14]

Awards

Elohim was part of the Israel Cup-winning team in 2008 and 2012. In 2013 she was an Israeli Super Cup finalist.[3]

Notes
  1. When Elohim began her professional career in Israel, local media had a field day with her Hebrew surname, declaring, "God has arrived in Israel",[4] and, "God is a woman".[5]

References
  2. "סגל הקבוצה" [Team Staff] (in Hebrew). wbl.co.il.
  4. Weiss, Raanan (22 July 2007). "אלוהים הגיעה ארצה: 'שחקניות לא יפחדו מהשם שלי'" [God has arrived in Israel: 'Players shouldn't be afraid of my name']. Ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  5. Weiss, Raanan (15 June 2007). "אלוהים בדרך לחזק את רמלה: 'רציתי לדגמן" [God is on the way to strengthen Ramla: 'I wanted to model']. Ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  6. "ספר שמות: 50 השמות הכי מצחיקים בספורט העולמי" [Book of Names: The 50 funniest names in world sports]. Walla! (in Hebrew). 3 April 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  7. Houghtaling, Eric (13 January 2010). "Hinchey scores 1,000th point in Onteora victory". Daily Freeman. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  8. "Brasheedah Elohim signs with Israel basketball champions". FSU Women's Basketball. 1 June 2007. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  9. "History Repeats Itself For The Third Straight Year At CIAA Women's Tennis Championship". Winston-Salem State University. 17 April 2004. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  10. "NCAA Statistics". web1.ncaa.org. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
  11. Livnat, Arie (24 January 2008). "Basketball Women's Premier League: You Look Familiar". Haaretz. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  12. Livnat, Arie; Shvirman, Ohad (15 April 2008). "Basketball Women's Premier League Both Semifinals to Go the Distance". Haaretz. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  13. Yonatan, Sharon (21 August 2014). "יש אלוהים" [There is a God]. Local (in Hebrew). Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  14. Nof, Lee (18 August 2014). "בראשידה אלוהים תמשיך לעונה שלישית ברמה"ש" [Brasheeda Elohim continues for a third season with Ramat HaSharon]. ONE (in Hebrew). Retrieved 26 June 2017.
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