Jan Jagla

Jan-Hendrik Jagla, known as Jan Jagla, is a former German professional basketball player, born on 25 June 1981. Standing seven feet tall, he played with the skills of a guard, and his game was compared with that of Dirk Nowitzki. He spent a year as an exchange student at Highland High School in Medina, Ohio, where he helped the team to its first Suburban League Championship in 1998, and then played three seasons at Pennsylvania State University from 2001 to 2004, finishing with 813 points, 504 rebounds and 110 blocked shots, third in school history. As a professional he played for Türk Telekom of the Turkish league, Joventut Badalona in Spain, and Polish champion Asseco Prokom Gdynia, before returning to Germany with Bayern Munich in 2011 and later with Alba Berlin, the club of his earlier years, in 2013. He returned to Bayern Munich in 2014 and retired on 16 July 2015. He took part in the 2008 Olympics with the German national team.