Elijah Hirsh (; born August 25, 1997) is an American-Israeli basketball player. He plays the forward position.

Biography

Hirsh was born in

Woodstock, Georgia Woodstock is a city in Cherokee County, Georgia, United States. The population was 35,065 as of 2020 according to the US Census Bureau. Originally a stop on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Woodstock is part of the Atlanta metropolitan a ...

, to Michael and Jo Lynn Hirsh. He is tall, and weighs . He attended Woodstock High School and The King's Academy in Woodstock. Hirsh then attended

Berry College Berry College is a private university in the Mount Berry community adjacent to Rome, Georgia. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). Berry College was founded on values based on Christian principles in 1 ...

(Business Administration; '19). In 2018 he was named

Southern Athletic Association The Southern Athletic Association (SAA) is an intercollegiate athletic conference that competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III that began play in the 2012–13 school year. It was formed in 2011 by seven ...

All-Second Team and All-Tournament Team, First Team All-Conference, and broke the single-game record for blocks in Berry's

NCAA The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates College athletics in the United States, student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, and Simon Fraser University, 1 in Canada. ...

DIII era with 10 blocks. In 2019, he averaged 17.5 points (second in the SAA), 9.2 rebounds (leading the SAA), and 1.9 blocks per game, and was named SAA Player of the Year, SAA All-First Team, and

National Association of Basketball Coaches The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, is an American organization of men's college basketball coaches. It was founded in 1927 by Phog Allen, the men's basketball head coach for the Univ ...

All-District South First Team, and Google Cloud Academic All-District. He plays for Ironi Kiryat Ata 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 ...

, with whom Hirsh signed a two-year deal in July 2019.

References

External links

Berry Vikings bio"Elijah Hirsh Berry College Senior Highlights: Class of 2019"
video. {{DEFAULTSORT:Hirsh, Elijah 1997 births Living people American men's basketball players Basketball players from Georgia (U.S. state) Berry Vikings men's basketball players Forwards (basketball) Israeli men's basketball players Sportspeople from Woodstock, Georgia 21st-century American sportsmen 21st-century Israeli sportsmen