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Benjamin Ortner

Ortner with Venezia in 2016
Personal information
Born	(1983-03-16) March 16, 1983 (age 41) Innsbruck, Austria
Listed height	6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)
Listed weight	226.6 lb (103 kg)
Career information
College	Metro State (2001–2005)
NBA draft	2005: undrafted
Playing career	2000–present
Position	Center
Career history
2000–2001	Tirol Innsbruck
2005–2008	Reggiana
2008–2009	Amatori Udine
2009–2011	Cantù
2011–2012	Benetton Treviso
2012	Gießen 46ers
2012–2014	Montepaschi Siena
2014–2017	Reyer Venezia
2017	Sidigas Avellino
2017–2018	Brescia Leonessa
2018–2019	Pallacanestro Reggiana
Career highlights and awards
2× Italian League champion (2013, 2017) Italian Cup winner (2013) Italian Supercup winner (2013)

Benjamin Ortner (born March 16, 1983) is a former Austrian professional basketball player who last played for Pallacanestro Reggiana of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA).

Ortner was born and raised in Innsbruck, Austria, where he attended primary and secondary school. Prior to his junior year of high school, he decided to study abroad for a year in the United States where he attended St. Joseph Notre Dame High School, a well-known basketball school based in Alameda (CA).^{[citation needed]}

Due to unfounded allegations made by other competing schools in the region, CIF forced Ortner to sit out the majority of the 1999-2000 season, eventually clearing him to play in the final four games of the year. That year, Ortner and St. Joseph's advanced to regional semi-finals where they lost to eventual champions and USA Today's #10 ranked team in the country, De La Salle of Concord.^{[citation needed]}

Ortner subsequently went on to play collegiately at Metropolitan State University of Denver, and for head coach Mike Dunlap, where he won a Division II National Championship in 2002.^{[citation needed]}

In September 2012, he signed a three-month contract with Gießen 46ers of the German Basketball Bundesliga.^[1] He left them after only 4 games and returned to Italy to sign with Montepaschi Siena.^[2]

In July 2014, he signed a one-year deal with Umana Reyer Venezia.^[3] One year later, both parties extended the contract through 2015-16.^[4]

In October 2017, Ortner signed a deal with Sidigas Avellino.^[5] On December 15, 2017, Ortner left Avellino and signed a deal with Germani Basket Brescia until the end of the season.^[6]

On November 13, 2018, Ortner officially signed a deal with Pallacanestro Reggiana.^[7]

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