Jeff Dowdell

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Jeff Dowdell
Position	Forward
Height	203 cm
Weight	98 kg
Team	Perth Wildcats (NBL)
Nationality	Australia
Born	March 13, 1987(1987-03-13) Cooma, New South Wales
Junior Association	Shoalhaven Tigers
Debut	2005
Career Highlights	2005 NSW Junior Player of the Year … averaged 20 ppg for NSW at the 2005 Under 20 National Championships ... attended four All-Australia camps (2002-05)... trained with the Crocs national Under 22 side in 2005 ... AIS scholarship holder 2003 - 2005 ... competed at the 2004 Albert Sweitzer tournament in Germany ... 2005/06 Perth Wildcats Most Improved Player ... averaged 24.8 points and 8.6 rebounds per game in South East Australian Basketball League playing for Albury/Wodonga Bandits in 2006 ... named in All- Star five for East conference in 2006 SEABL season

Jeffery Dowdell (born March 13, 1987 in Cooma, New South Wales) is an Australian basketball player currently playing in the National Basketball League for the Perth Wildcats. He is a product of the Shoalhaven Tigers basketball program, producing several National Basketball League (Australia), WNBL and NCAA players.

1 Career
2 Trivia
3 External Links
4 References

[edit] Career

In 2005, Dowdell played his rookie NBL season with the Wildcats at the age of 18, the same year he was named as NSW Junior Player of the Year. In his second NBL season with the Wildcats he was named the clubs Most Improved Player ^[1].

After the NBL season ended in 2007, Dowdell played for the Wanneroo Wolves in the Western Australian State Basketball League, where he averaged 27.5 ppg ^[2].

[edit] Trivia

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Played for the Albury/Wodonga Bandits in the SEABL.
His brother Ben Dowdell was a member of the 2007 Australian Under 19's basketball squad the "Emus" and currently plays for Santa Clara University in the NCAA Div. 1.^[3]