(Andrea Walker & Star Allen - Ohio State Years)
Teammates Again! (The biggest Summer news from the 2011 woman’s transfer market is out if Eastern Europe where a club has recently acquired not just one former Buckeye but two!)
On June 18, overseas internet reports circulated from Romania stating (link) that a club called CSM Satu Mare officially announced the addition of Buckeye Andrea Walker (2006-2010). A month later in late July, Satu Mare released (link) the names of few more acquisitions for the upcoming season which included one of Walker’s Ohio State teammates Star Allen (2005-2009)!!
CSM Satu Mare is a club named after the capital city of Satu Mare Country which is located in Northwestern Romania (near bordering Eastern European countries Hungary & Ukraine) CSM Satu Mare is one of the best squads in the Romanian League. They finished second in the 2011 league playoffs and are also slated to represent Romania in the 2011/2012 EuroCup Competition (the second highest level of play in European Basketball)!
Andrea Walker is already a known commodity in Romania. After a stint in Spain, Walker played the second half of her rookie season with Central Romanian club Gheorghe. The second year pro to be helped Gheorghe make the playoffs and was also named as the import player of the year by Eurobasket.com (finished as one of the league leaders in blocks and rebounds) Walker will be joined in Satu Mare by Annemarie Parau, a teammate from Gheorghe who also happens to be one of the top players from Romania.
Columbus, Ohio native Star Allen played part of last season in the Portuguese municipality of Carcavelos where she routinely dropped double-double performances for a club called Quinta. The addition of a talent like Star Allen automatically places Satu Mare as one of the top contenders for the Romanian League Championship. We think some in the Romanian league will regret the day that Allen & Walker were allowed to be on the same team lol! Regular season play in Romania will begin in early October.
Instances of former Buckeyes ending up on the same pro roster are very rare, but this type of situation has actually occurred in recent years. Daequan Cook (2006/2007) & Byron Mullens (2008/2009) are currently both members of the Oklahoma City Thunder, but they were not teammates in Columbus. Terence Dials & Matt Terwilliger were briefly reunited when T.D joined Paderborn Baskets of Germany in November of 2009. And in the early summer of 2010 Dials played with James Sullinger during the Chinese NBL import scrimmages. We can now add Andrea Walker & Star Allen to the list of pro teammates from tOSU. Go Buckeyes & Good Luck!
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