Update from Taylor

Hey everything has been going well. I arrived back in Alicante, Spain on Wednesday August 20th. I had to stay in a hotel until the same apartment I had last year was ready. I didn't move in until Sept 1st. We are just finishing preseason with another scrimmage on Sunday. We have played about 4 scrimmages this preaseason and have won all of them. I have played pretty well averaging double digit scoring. I am enjoying myself and getting to know the new guys on the team and continuing my friendship with the ones who returned. We have had to do some running and lifting and even some workouts in a swimming pool. The weather is great and looks like a great start to the season.

Vacations

Hi All,

Taylor is on his summer vacation in Maine for the next week but this weekend he's off to Vegas for a UVM basketball reunion!

In case you haven't heard the news yet, Taylor has signed with Alicante (his team from last year) for another year! Here's to a great year in SPAIN! :)

Way to go Taylor!

WOOOHOOO!

From Taylor:

Hey we made it to the Final Four and our schedule will be this. We play on Saturday at 4 pm spain time and so I believe it would be 10 am eastern time. Then if we win we play on Sunday for the Championship at 5 pm spain time and 11 am eastern time. It should be on www.febtv.com again. Hope it all works out. I will let you know if anything changes.

GOOD LUCK TAYLOR AND ALICANTE!!!

***have you signed up for the Coppenrath Summer Slam yet?!?!?

Playoffs!

Hi All! Catch Taylor's playoff game today at 2:30EST on www.febtv.com!

Hometown Love

There was an article about Taylor's playoff game in the Burlington Free Press this morning! Check it out here!

Play Offs

We have an update from Taylor today about their first playoff game! He writes:

Well the first game didnt go quite as we hoped. We were playing well but needed to get lucky at the end. We were down a few points with a minute or so to go and Alain hit a three. Then we were down three with about a minute and we ran two high screen and rolls for the point guard and everyone collapsed inside and I was left open and took the three and made it to tie the game.

Then next posession, I was called for a foul and had to leave with 5 fouls. They made one of two free throws, we went down and missed a three and got the rebound but was called for a foul again. So the other team made one of two again leaving us down by two with 20 seconds left in the game. Then we ran a play and Martynas was fouled intentionally or unsportsman like and was giving two free throws and we would have the ball with 7 seconds. Their coach started yelling and was given two technicals and ejected from the game. So Martynas made two free throws and Alain made four free throws putting us up four with the ball. We inbounded to Alain and he was fouled again and made both. We won the game!!!

Here is a link to the boxscore.... http://www.feb.es/Pasarela/MostrarPasarela.aspx?Tipo=Resultados&g=1&t=2007

Way to go Taylor and Alicante!

Play Offs!

Alicante has mad the playoffs and plays today at 3pm EST. We're not sure if it's going to be broadcast online or not, but it's worth a look!

Check it out!

www.febtv.com

vs. Rosalia

Alicante beat Beirasar Roalia 82 - 60 last Friday and Taylor had a great game! He played 19 1/2 minutes; was high scorer with 18 points and tied with 7'2" Martynas Andriuskevicius with 6 rebounds.

But the best part?!?! Taylor hit 3 3 pointers!!!!!


Yes, we said THREE! :)

Way to go Taylor!

vs. Milk Breogán River

Translated from the website:

"The Alicante Coast surpassed its test before Milk Breogán River after a end of infarct. This way, the alicantino set maintains the third seat, Óscar Quintana adds his second consecutive victory and the equipment acquires an injection of self-esteem when surpassing to a direct rival by the fight of the ascent to ACB. Both equipment went to the track to by all. The first minutes were a hand by hand between Taylor Coppenrath and Nacho Ordín. Both players were the ones in charge to maintain the equality between equipment both thanks to their success under the hoop (5-5).

With the new exit of Carroll the alicantinos took the reins from the encounter. The American managed to fit seven followed points and to encarrilar the victory of the lucentino set. The last and decisive quarter was most exciting. Coppenrath was the one in charge to inaugurate the marker. After both minutes of game, those of Alpaca Garci'a followed clogged and without putting in the hoop."

You can check it out HERE!

100th Post!

Hi Everyone,

This is our 100th post, so... happy 100th to US! :)

In other updates...

Taylor has not solidified any plans of summer league or team camps for this summer. We'll let you know if he does!

Taylor is excited to report that Alicante has a new head coach. (As of last Tuesday.) Taylor reports that he is very positive and has been successfully motivating the team!

vs. Cantabria

Taylor started in today's game for the first time in 4 weeks and played a little over 17 minutes. During that time he had 11 pts, 6 rebounds and Alicante won 97 - 72!

Way to go Taylor!

vs. Bruesa GBC

In one of the biggest games of the season, Alicante Costa Blanca beat the first place team, Bruesa GBC 90 - 79 in a very hard fought game last week. As a result of that game Bruesa GBC dropped to third and Alicante moved to second place!

Taylor started and, despite getting in early foul trouble and playing less than half of the game (17 mins) he scored 7 points and was the leading rebounder with 6.

Way to go Taylor and Alicante!

vs. Tenerife Rural

Taylor had another great game!  Taylor started and played a tough 30 minutes against a very big (6'11") strong and dirty player,  Alfonso Albert, from Tenerife Rural.  Tenerife is located in the Canary Islands off of the west coast of Africa.  

Alicante won 89-70.  Taylor played solid defense and had 7 points and 5 offensive rebounds.

Next Wednesday the team plays Bruesa GBF the number one team at this time- - BIG GAME!

Congratulations Taylor and good luck next week! :)

Watch Taylor Tonight!

From Taylor:

Hey everyone the game is online tonight on www.febtv.com you have to scroll down till you see alicante costa blanca vs. tenerife.

We can't wait! :) Good luck Taylor!

vs. Baloncesto la Palma

Alicante won Friday night 79-65. Taylor had a great game! He started, and finished with 17 points (include a 3 pointer), and was 6 for 6 from the foul line! Way to go Taylor! We're so excited you recovered so quickly!

Update

Hi Everyone. Sorry for the lack of posting lately! Just to update you quickly... Taylor is feeling pretty good! They had a tough game last night and he doesn't feel 100% yet, but he's getting back there!

More to come!

Taylor Writes:

Hey all,
Here is a link to watch the game tomorrow online. My dad said it should be our game on the video tomorrow morning. I know its early but you'll survive! Haha. It will start around 6:30 in the morning. This if from my dad... at game time folks need to click on the highlighted game and it should pick up the game in the tv screen on the left. The link is www.febtv.com Hope it works out. Talk to you soon.

-Taylor


Good Luck TAYLOR!

Spanish Cup

Alicante won the first semi-final game of the Spanish cup Friday night 87 - 81! Keith was the high scorer while Taylor was the second high scorer with 13 pts and 7 rbds.

Saturday at 7pm in Spain; (1 pm our time) Alicante played LECHE RIO BREOGAN in the championship game- - game update to come!

Way to go Alicante!~

vs. Barrios

Taylor had a great game Friday night against vs CB Villa de los Barrios. He scored the first 8 points and then the first 14 of 16 including a 3 pointer! (Love. That.) He finished as the high scorer of the game with 22 points and 8 rebounds.

The game was close and exciting but Alicante was trailing by 2 (87-85) in the last 30 seconds. Nick George hit a 3 pointer with 25 seconds left to give Alicante an 88-87 win!

Sounds like a great game! Way to go Taylor and Alicante!

And Now for Basketball

Taylor only had one game while we were in Alicante, but it was awesome! The fans are totally wild and into the game- - the gym was buzzing with excitement- - and they have a remote-control blimp that flies over the court during time-outs. The game was close (they only won by three points) but they managed to stay ahead the entire second half. Taylor hurt his knee pretty early in the game but he played through it and didn't disapoint us! We hadn't seen him play in a LONG time so it was really fun regardless! (I'm sure we didn't cause any commotion cheering/yelling in English either...) :)

And, we've mentioned this before, but Taylor's teamates are. just. awesome. It was fun to see all of them together on and off the court!

Here are some pictures from the game!

We have pretty awesome video from the game too, we'll post it when we figure out how... :)