Tyler Kepkay

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Tyler Kepkay
Personal information
Guard
Born	(1987-06-19) June 19, 1987 Vancouver, British Columbia
Nationality	Canadian
Listed height	6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Listed weight	185 lb (84 kg)
Career information
High school	Handsworth (North Vancouver, British Columbia)
College	College of Eastern Utah (2005–2007) Utah (2007–2009)
NBA draft	2009 / Undrafted

Tyler Kepkay (born June 19, 1987) is a Canadian professional basketball player, currently signed to the team Lti Giessen 46ers of the German first basketball league (BBL). Prior to this season Tyler played for ETB Wohnbau Baskets Essen (Germany). He is a veteran member of the Canadian national basketball team.

College

Kepkay initially attended the College of Eastern Utah in Price, Utah. At the junior college school, he led the nation in scoring his sophomore season en route to being named First Team Junior College All-America.^[1] Following his two years of junior college, he committed to the University of Utah for his last two years of eligibility. In his first season with the Utes, he played in all 33 games, starting 26 of them, while averaging 7.5 points and 2.1 assists per game.^[2] In the 2008-09 season, he averaged 10.3 points per game for the Utes in helping the team to a 24-9 record and a berth in the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.^[3] At the tournament, he scored a team-high 19 points in a first round loss to the University of Arizona.^[4]

Canada Basketball

Kepkay first played for the Canada national basketball team at the FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men 2008 while seeing limited action off the bench for the Canadians.^[5] He also participated with the team at the FIBA Americas Championship 2009.

References

External links

Utah Utes profile

v t e Canada squad – 2009 FIBA Americas Championship – 4th place

4 Anderson 5 Kepkay 6 Bell 7 Bucknor 8 English 9 Famutimi 10 A. Rautins 11 Doornekamp 12 Young 13 Landry 14 Kendall 15 Anthony Coach: L. Rautins

Persondata
Name	Kepkay, Tyler
Alternative names
Short description	Canadian basketball player
Date of birth	June 19, 1987
Place of birth	Vancouver, British Columbia
Date of death
Place of death

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