Devon van Oostrum

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Basketball player
Devon van Oostrum
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Player information
Full name Devon Doekele van Oostrum
birthday January 24, 1993 (27 years 221 days)
place of birth Groningen , the Netherlands
size 193 cm
position Point guard
Club information
society Laboral Kutxa
league League ACB
Jersey number 7th
Clubs as active
2008–2009 Sheffield Sharks (youth) Since 2009 Saski Baskonia 2011–2012 → Basket Tarragona 2017 2012–2013 → Cáceres PatrimonioUnited KingdomUnited Kingdom
0SpainSpain
SpainSpain
SpainSpain
National team 1
Since 02011 Great Britain
1 As of July 1, 2012

Devon Doekele van Oostrum (born January 24, 1993 in Groningen , the Netherlands ) is a British basketball player . Van Oostrum joined the training program of the Basque club Saski Baskonia at an early age of 16 , from which he was loaned to various lower-class clubs in Spain . After previously playing for England's youth national teams, he made his debut in the British men's national team in 2011 . In February 2013 he returned to Saski Baskonia and replaced Carlos Cabezas in the club's squad in the top Spanish league ACB .

Career

Van Oostrum went to school in Sheffield in the "Silverdale School" and played until 2009 in the youth team of the Sheffield Sharks, whose men's team plays in the top national division of the British Basketball League . At the U16 European Championship in Division B 2009 he delivered a "complete package" with an average of 21 points, seven rebounds and almost six ball wins, a good four assists per game and led the English selection, which only narrowly missed promotion to Division A. , in third place, ahead of the Slovenian youngsters. He then took him on in the Saski Baskonia association from Vitoria-Gasteiz in its training program. Here he played for two years in the youth team Euskotren Fundación Baskonia, the professional men's team.

After van Oostrum was voted one of the top five players at the U18 European Championship of the division in 2010 as a 17-year-old, he made his debut in the Olympic preparatory tournament in London in the summer of 2011 in the British men's national team , which was held on the occasion of the 2012 Olympic Games to London from the selection teams of the three associations of Great Britain had been formed. For the 2011/12 season, van Oostrum was loaned from his Basque club to the Spanish second division Basket 2017 from Tarragona in the LEB Oro . Third from bottom of the final table, Tarragona won the play-off series for relegation against league rivals Clínicas Rincón in three games, but then for economic reasons renounced further participation in the professional leagues of the LEB. Van Oostrum then did not make it into the final squad of the British men's national team for the 2012 Olympic Games in the summer of 2012. For the following season 2012/13, van Oostrum was loaned to the previous league competitor Patrimonio de la Humanidad from Cáceres , which was in the preseason had just missed promotion to the ACB league in the semi-final play-offs . After Carlos Cabezas' contract for Laboral Kutxa , the new sponsor name of Saski Baskonia's first division team, ended prematurely in February 2013, van Oostrum was promoted to the ACB league by being included in the squad of the Spanish top club.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Devon Van Oostrum / U16 European Championship Men 2009. FIBA Europe , accessed on May 17, 2013 (English, tournament statistics for Division B).
  2. ↑ MVP Spasojevic Tops All Tournament Team. FIBA Europa , August 1, 2010, accessed on May 17, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Carlos Cabezas deja de pertenecer a la disciplina del Caja Laboral. Liga ACB , February 25, 2013, accessed on May 17, 2013 (Spanish, media info Laboral Kutxa).
personal data
SURNAME Oostrum, Devon van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oostrum, Devon Doekele van (full name); Van Oostrum, Devon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Groningen , the Netherlands