Brasheedah Elohim

{{short description|American-Israeli basketball and tennis player}}

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| caption = Elohim cuts the net after her team wins the 2012 championship

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| position = Power forward

| height_ft = 5

| height_in = 11

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1980|11|01}}

| birth_place = Virgin Islands

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| nationality = Israeli

| high_school = Onteora High School

| college = University of Maryland Eastern Shore (2000–2002)
Fayetteville State University (2002–2004)

| career_start = 2007

| career_end = 2016

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| years1 = 2007–2008

| team1 = Elitzur Ramla

| years2 = 2008–2009

| team2 = Maccabi Bnot Ashdod

| years3 = 2009–2010

| team3 = A.S.A. Jerusalem

| years4 = 2010–2011

| team4 = Raanana Herzliya

| years5 = 2011–2012

| team5 = Maccabi Bnot Ashdod

| years6 = 2012–2015

| team6 = A.S. Ramat HaSharon

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Brasheedah Elohim ({{langx|he|בראשידה אלוהים}}; born November 1, 1980) is an American-Israeli basketball player and tennis player. During her professional women's basketball career in Israel, she played for Ramat HaSharon, Ashdod, Ramla, and Jerusalem. She was a member of the 2016 Israel women's national basketball team.{{cite web |url=http://www.wbl.co.il/team.asp?TeamId=16&cYear=2016|title= סגל הקבוצה|trans-title=Team Staff|language=Hebrew|publisher=wbl.co.il}}

Biography

Brasheedah Elohim was born in the Virgin Islands and grew up in Mount Tremper, New York. She was raised Jewish. Her mother changed the family's surname to Elohim (Hebrew for

"God") because she did not want her children to carry "the name of a slave".{{efn|When Elohim began her professional career in Israel, local media had a field day with her Hebrew surname, declaring, "God has arrived in Israel", and, "God is a woman".}}{{cite web |url=http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3428546,00.html|title=אלוהים הגיעה ארצה: 'שחקניות לא יפחדו מהשם שלי'|language=Hebrew|trans-title=God has arrived in Israel: 'Players shouldn't be afraid of my name'|first=Raanan|last=Weiss|date=22 July 2007|accessdate=25 June 2017|work=Ynet}}{{cite web |url=http://sports.walla.co.il/item/2841717|title= ספר שמות: 50 השמות הכי מצחיקים בספורט העולמי|language=Hebrew|trans-title=Book of Names: The 50 funniest names in world sports|date=3 April 2015|accessdate=25 June 2017|work=Walla!}}

Elohim attended Onteora High School in Boiceville, New York, where she was one of the few girls' basketball players to score more than 1,000 points in her high school career.{{cite web |url=http://www.dailyfreeman.com/article/DF/20100113/NEWS/301139986|title= Hinchey scores 1,000th point in Onteora victory|first=Eric|last=Houghtaling|date=13 January 2010|accessdate=25 June 2017|work=Daily Freeman}}

University

From 2000 to 2002 she attended the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in Princess Anne, Maryland, where she was a substitute player for the university's Division 1 basketball team. She averaged 7.4 points per game in 2000–2001 and 10.8 points per game in 2001–2002. She then moved to Fayetteville State University (FSU) in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where she was a starting guard for the Division 2 Lady Broncos team from 2002 to 2004.{{cite web |url=http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/1,7340,L-3411963,00.html|title= אלוהים בדרך לחזק את רמלה: 'רציתי לדגמן|language=Hebrew|trans-title=God is on the way to strengthen Ramla: 'I wanted to model'|first=Raanan|last=Weiss|date=15 June 2007|accessdate=25 June 2017|work=Ynet}} Averaging 12.3 points per game, she had a career total of 687 points.{{cite web |url=http://www.fsubroncos.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/060107aaa.html |title= Brasheedah Elohim signs with Israel basketball champions|date=1 June 2007|accessdate=25 June 2017|publisher=FSU Women's Basketball}}

Elohim was also a player on the FSU tennis team from 2003 to 2004, compiling a 46–2 record. In 2003 she won the CIAA doubles championship, but lost in the finals of the parallel doubles championship. In 2004 she won the CIAA First Singles final and was named Most Outstanding Women's Tennis Player; that year, FSU won the CIAA Women's Tennis Championship.{{cite web |url=http://www.wssurams.com/sports/w-tennis/recaps/041704aaa.html |title= History Repeats Itself For The Third Straight Year At CIAA Women's Tennis Championship|date=17 April 2004|accessdate=25 June 2017|publisher=Winston-Salem State University}}

=Maryland, Eastern Shore and Fayetteville State statistics=

Source{{Cite web|url=http://web1.ncaa.org/stats/StatsSrv/careerplayer|title=NCAA Statistics|website=web1.ncaa.org|access-date=2021-06-03}}

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!Year

!Team

!GP

!Points

!FG%

!3P%

!FT%

!RPG

!APG

!SPG

!BPG

!PPG

1999-00

|Maryland, Eastern Shore

|22

|164

|44.6%

|33.3%

|62.2%

|5.0

|0.9

|1.4

|0.2

|7.5

2000-01

|Maryland, Eastern Shore

|26

|282

|32.5%

|22.9%

|58.7%

|7.1

|2.3

|2.0

|0.3

|10.8

2001-02

|Fayetteville State

|28

|370

|40.6%

|25.0%

|68.0%

|7.6

|1.1

|2.3

|0.6

|13.2

2002-03

|Fayetteville State

|28

|317

|38.6%

|25.0%

|65.9%

|6.5

|0.9

|1.9

|0.5

|11.3

Career

|104

|1133

|38.2%

|24.8%

|64.2%

|6.6

|1.3

|1.9

|0.4

|10.9

Post-college

In 2005 Elohim played in the Women's Blue Chip Basketball League as one of the starting five players for the Jonesboro Flames. She was named to the 2005 WBCBL All-Star Game. In 2006 she played for the Atlanta Flames. In May 2007, she was a guest player for A.S. Ramat HaSharon in an exhibition game against the Washington Mystics.{{cite web |url= http://www.haaretz.com/basketball-women-s-premier-league-you-look-familiar-1.237879|title= Basketball Women's Premier League: You Look Familiar|first=Arie|last=Livnat|date=24 January 2008|accessdate=26 June 2017|work=Haaretz}}

Professional career

In 2007 Elohim immigrated to Israel and received Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return. She signed with Elitzur Ramla for the 2007–2008 season. Although she did not distinguish herself during the season, she came off the bench during the fourth game in the best-of-five EuroCup semifinals with A.S. Ramat HaSharon and scored a season-high 11 points and five rebounds, helping Ramla beat Ramat HaSharon 87–74 and forcing a fifth game.{{cite web |url=http://www.haaretz.com/basketball-women-s-premier-league-both-semifinals-to-go-the-distance-1.243962|title= Basketball Women's Premier League Both Semifinals to Go the Distance|first1=Arie|last1=Livnat|first2=Ohad |last2=Shvirman|date=15 April 2008|accessdate=25 June 2017|work=Haaretz}}

For the 2008–2009 season she signed with Maccabi Bnot Ashdod. In 2009–2010 she played with A.S.A. Jerusalem, and in 2010–2011 was a member of Raanana Hertzliya. For the 2011–2012 season she played with Maccabi Bnot Ashdod. In 2012 she moved to A.S. Ramat HaSharon, where she played through 2015. Her manager on the latter team lauded her as a veteran presence for younger players.{{cite web|url=http://www.local.co.il/ramat-hasharon/118070/article/|title=יש אלוהים|language=Hebrew|trans-title=There is a God|first=Sharon|last=Yonatan|date=21 August 2014|accessdate=26 June 2017|work=Local}}{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} In the 2013–2014 season she averaged 4 points, 5 rebounds, and 1.5 assists per game.{{cite web |url= http://m.one.co.il/Mobile/Article/07-08/0,646,0,0/238032.html?ref=hp|title= בראשידה אלוהים תמשיך לעונה שלישית ברמה"ש|language=Hebrew|trans-title=Brasheeda Elohim continues for a third season with Ramat HaSharon|first=Lee|last=Nof|date=18 August 2014|accessdate=26 June 2017|work=ONE}}