| Willy Workman | |
| Position: | Small forward |
| Height Cm: | 198 |
| League: | Israeli Premier League |
| Team: | Bnei Herzliya |
| Number: | 2 |
| Birth Date: | 14 March 1990 |
| Birth Place: | Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Nationality: | American / Israeli |
| Highschool: | Northampton High School (Northampton, Massachusetts) |
| College: | Amherst (2009–2013) |
| Draft Year: | 2013 |
| Career Start: | 2013 |
| Years1: | 2013–2014 |
| Team1: | Hapoel Galil Elyon |
| Years2: | 2014–2015 |
| Team2: | Hapoel Tel Aviv |
| Years3: | 2015–2016 |
| Team3: | Maccabi Ashdod |
| Years4: | 2016–2020 |
| Team4: | Maccabi Haifa |
| Years5: | 2020–2021 |
| Team5: | Hapoel Holon |
| Years6: | 2021–2022 |
| Team6: | Hapoel Jerusalem |
| Years7: | 2022–2023 |
| Team7: | Maccabi Ra'anana |
| Years8: | 2023–2024 |
| Team8: | Bnei Herzliya |
| Years9: | 2024–present |
| Team9: | Hapoel Haifa |
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Willy Workman (Hebrew: וילי וורקמן; born March 14, 1990) is an American-Israeli professional basketball player for Hapoel Haifa of the Israeli Premier League. He played college basketball at Amherst. Workman holds dual-American and Israeli citizenship.
Workman is Jewish[1] and was born to a Jewish mother[2] in Northampton, Massachusetts. He attended Northampton High School before completing a postgraduate year at nearby Deerfield Academy, where he resumed playing basketball after enduring injuries earlier in his high school career.[2] Workman's father, Danny, is a longtime restaurateur.[3] His mother, Dina Fein, is a judge in Springfield, Massachusetts.[4]
Workman attended Amherst College from 2009 to 2013, winning the NCAA3 Championship his senior year.[5] He averaged 10.2 points, 6.1 rebounds and 2.9 assists for his four-year career at Amherst, earning D3hoops.com men's All-America Third Team,[6] ECAC Division III New England First Team[7] and NESCAC First Team honors in 2013.[8]
During his first season of professional basketball in 2013–14, Workman played for Hapoel Galil Elyon[9] of the Israeli National League, the second-tier league in Israel, and was able to move to the country's top-flight Premier League, when signing with Hapoel Tel Aviv for the 2014–15 season.[10]
He was signed by fellow Premier League side Maccabi Ashdod for 2015-16[11] and inked a contract with Maccabi Haifa prior to the 2016-17 Premier League campaign.[12] That season, Workman helped Haifa to reach the 2017 Israeli League Finals, where they eventually lost to Hapoel Jerusalem.
On February 28, 2018, Workman signed a three-year contract extension with Maccabi Haifa.[13] On March 2, 2018, Workman participated in the Israeli League All-Star Game as a replacement for Oz Blayzer.[14] That season, despite Workman having his best year in the Israeli Premier League in terms of personal averages (6.7 points and 5.4 rebounds per game) - his team, Maccabi Haifa, had finished the season in the last place out of 12 teams and was relegated to the Israeli National League (the second-tier league in Israel).
In the 2018–19 season, Workman won the 2019 Israeli National League Championship title with Haifa, earning a promotion back to the Israeli Premier League. In the 2019–20 season, he averaged 8.1 points and 4.9 rebounds per game. On August 5, 2020, Workman signed with Hapoel Holon.[15]
On July 2, 2021, he signed with Hapoel Jerusalem of the Israeli Premier League.[16]
On August 19, 2022, he signed with Maccabi Ra'anana of the Liga Leumit (basketball).[17]
On June 28, 2023, he signed with Bnei Herzliya of the Israeli Premier League on a two-year contract.[18]