Alicante's Playoff Cover

That's Taylor on the cover!

Spain Year Two- Complete!

Taylor Coppenrath, former standout basketball player at St Johnsbury Academy and UVM finished a very successful year in Alicante, Spain. On Sunday, 5/31/09, the Lucentum Alicante professional basketball team won the championship of the LEB Gold Division in Spain with a win over Melilla 72 - 66. The win moves the team into the ACB Division from where the Euroleague teams play. Taylor played 27 ½ minutes, scoring 10 points and shutting down the paint on defense to the Melilla low post players. Over the season Taylor averaged about 10.6 pts and 4.5 rebounds per game playing about 20 minutes per game.
After graduating from UVM in 2005 Taylor played on the NBA summer league teams for the Boston Celtics, AEK in Athens, Greece 2005 -06; NBA Indiana Pacers summer league 2006; Angelico Biella in Biella, Italy 2006 – 07, and Lucentum Alicante for the past two seasons. Alicante had specifically wanted Taylor to help them ascend to the ACB based on his past European experience. It turned out to be a good decision as Alicante is now in the ACB!

Taylor returns to Vermont on Wednesday and will be hosting basketball camps in Winooski and St Johnsbury this summer.

NEK Sports

check out the great article about Taylor and his season in Spain!

HERE

CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES

COME ON!

Alicante won the LEB Gold Championship today which moves them into the top division, the ACB, in Spain where the top four teams play in the Euroleague. Reaching the ACB was a goal for the team for the past two years and one of the reasons they wanted Taylor to play for them.

They did it~

It was *such* an exciting game! Congratulations to Taylor and the team!

PLAYOFF WEBSITE

THERE IS A NEW WEBSITE IN SPAIN THAT WILL BE TELEVISING THE SEMI FINAL GAME ON SATURDAY AT 12:30 PM THAT HAS A LARGER SCREEN AND BETTER QUALITY...

at 12:30 go to: www.populartv.net

and click on the "Emision en Directo" tab button; it is yellow

If Lucentum Alicante win on Saturday; they will play the next day, on Sunday, at the same time, 12:30pm and it will be televised on the same website.

Good luck Taylor and Alicante!

Semi-Finals

Taylor's next game is vs. Los Barrios at a neutral court in Madrid for the semi-final game of the final four on Saturday, 5/30/09, at 12:30 pm Eastern time.

From Taylor's Dad:

Alicante won their 1/4 final playoffs by beating Ford Burgos in the third game, 84 - 57, and will play in the first semi-final game this Saturday to see which team advances to the championship game on Sunday, 5/31/09..

The playoff schedule is now on www.febtv.com (the same site where the games are viewed; simply scroll down...

Here is a link to the video stream:

http://www.febtv.com/

find the list of games on the right side; click on the "Lucentum Alicante" game; that will open up the video of the game inside the TV screen. Taylor is #15, usually wears high white socks with black ankle braces.

Alicante is Back at Home!

Taylor's next game is back at home (the third and last 1/4 final game!) on Sunday, 5/24/09, at 1:30 pm Eastern time.

Alicante won the first game on Tuesday, lost last evening at Burgos by four points, and will play Sunday to see which team advances to the final four next weekend.

The playoff schedule is now on www.febtv.com (the same site where the games are viewed; simply scroll down...

Here is a link to the video stream:

http://www.febtv.com/

find the list of games on the right side; click on the "Lucentum Alicante" game; that will open up the video of the game inside the TV screen. Taylor is #15, usually wears high white socks with black ankle braces.