Jens Kujawa

Jens Kujawa, born on 28 January 1965 in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, is a former German professional basketball player who played as a center. As a foreign exchange student in 1984 he played prep basketball at Taylorville High School in Illinois, then played for the University of Illinois Fighting Illini from 1984 to 1988 and earned three letters, leaving for Germany before his senior season. He played for German clubs in Leverkusen, Ludwigsburg, Ulm and Oberelchingen between 1988 and 2001. Kujawa represented Germany at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where the German team finished seventh, and he belonged to the German national team that won the country's only European title in 1993. After his playing career he settled in Winsen (Luhe), worked as a consultant on lifetime working accounts and joined the board of a charity organisation, Basketball Aid.