Christian Cianan Cunningham (born November 21, 1997) is an American basketball player who last played for

Hapoel Be'er Sheva Hapoel Be'er Sheva Football Club (, ''Moadon HaKaduregel Hapoel Be'er Sheva'') is an Israeli professional association football, football club from the city of Beersheba, Be'er Sheva, that competes in the Israeli Premier League. The club was estab ...

in the

Israeli Basketball Premier League Ligat HaAl (, lit., ''Supreme League or Premier League''), or the Israeli Basketball Premier League, is a professional basketball league in Israel and the highest level of basketball in the country. The league's name is abbreviated as either BSL ...

. He plays the forward position.

Biography

Cunningham was born in

El Paso, Texas El Paso (; ; or ) is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States. The 2020 United States census, 2020 population of the city from the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, making it the List of ...

, and his hometown is

Albuquerque, New Mexico Albuquerque ( ; ), also known as ABQ, Burque, the Duke City, and in the past 'the Q', is the List of municipalities in New Mexico, most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico, and the county seat of Bernalillo County, New Mexico, Bernal ...

. His parents are Viola and Paul Cunningham. He is tall, and weighs . He attended Cibola High School ('15) in

New Mexico New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States. It is one of the Mountain States of the southern Rocky Mountains, sharing the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. It also ...

. Cunningham played basketball for the Cibola Cougars, and was a first team all-district player in his junior year. Cunningham attended

Jacksonville State University Jacksonville State University (JSU or Jax State) is a public university in Jacksonville, Alabama, United States. Founded in 1883, Jacksonville State offers programs of study in six academic schools leading to bachelor's degree, bachelor's, mas ...

('19). He played basketball for the

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. In his sophomore year in 2016–17, he ranked second in the

Ohio Valley Conference The Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States. It participates in Division I of the NCAA; the conference's football programs compete in partnership with ...

in blocked shots per game (1.7), third in offensive rebounds (2.9), fourth in field goal percentage (61.3), and set the JSU NCAA Division-I single-season rebounding record (275) and block record (59). In his junior year in 2017–18 he led the Ohio Valley Conference in field goal percentage (.661) and blocked shots (57), and had 8.1 rebounds per game. In his senior season in 2018–19 he was named Preseason All-OVC and was second in the OVC in field-goal percentage (.624), and fourth in shots blocked per game (1.7) and offensive rebounds per game (3.0). He is Jacksonville State's all-time blocks leader (215), and its NCAA Division-I career rebounding leader (864) and field-goal percentage leader (.621). In December 2020 Cunningham joined

in the

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cunningham, Christian 1997 births Living people American expatriate basketball people in Israel American men's basketball players Basketball players from Albuquerque, New Mexico Basketball players from El Paso, Texas Forwards (basketball) Israeli Basketball Premier League players Kagoshima Rebnise players Jacksonville State Gamecocks men's basketball players Cibola High School alumni 21st-century American sportsmen