Joey Vickery

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Joel David "Joey" Vickery (born June 9, 1967 ) is a retired Canadian basketball player .

Life

Vickery, a 1.78-meter-tall point guard, comes from Winnipeg (province of Manitoba ), where he played at the school Westwood Collegiate basketball to 1985th He was then a member of the University of Winnipeg team from 1985 to 1987 . In the 1987/88 season he sat out, in 1988 he moved to Brandon University, also located in Manitoba . Vickery played there until 1991. In the seasons 1989/90 and 1990/91 he was elected to the "Team of the Year" of the Canadian college league CIAU, in the season 1988/89, in which he won the Canadian college championship with Brandon he was named the best actor in the CIAU final tournament.

Vickery ventured into professional business, initially playing in North America before moving to Europe in 1995 and was in the service of the Lithuanian club Olimpas Plunge in the 1995/96 season. There Vickery made a name for himself as a successful three-thrower and set a record for the Lithuanian league LKL when he hit 13 three-point throws in one game and scored a total of 68 points. He posted an average of 23.4 points per game for Plunge this season. In the 1996/97 season he played in Spain, strengthened Ciudad de Huelva there in the LEB league and scored an average of 17.5 points per match.

Vickery continued his professional career with the French second division club Poissy-Chatou, where he played from 1997 to 2000 and, like at his previous clubs, stood out as a strong offensive player with a safe throw from distance. During the 1999/2000 game year he came in 33 missions for Poissy on 137 three-point throws hit and a points average of 21.6 per game. While at Poissy-Chatou, Vickery set a record of 17 three-point throws hit in one game.

In the 2000/01 season Vickery was again in Spain (at Carteia Algeciras) and scored an average of 15.7 points per game for the second division. In 2001 he moved to Austria for the first time and joined UBC Mattersburg . In 2002 he returned to Ciudad de Huelva, played in the following season 2003/04 for the Swedish first division club Jämtland Basket.

In the 2004/05 season he was initially back on the field for Austrian Bundesliga club Mattersburg, but took an offer from the Spanish club Caja Melilla during the season. There he played until October 2005 and then moved to Arkadia Traiskirchen in the Bundesliga.

In 2008, Vickery moved from Traiskirchen to what is now the second division Mattersburg. He played there until 2014 and was also the sports director and youth coach. He then worked in Canada as a coach in a basketball academy. In the 2017/18 season, Vickery returned to the field in the Mattersburger jersey at the age of 50 and scored an average of 10.4 points in twelve games in the 2nd Bundesliga. In January 2018, Vickery moved to the coaching bench after Mike Coffin moved to Kapfenberg. He stayed in office until the end of the 2017/18 season and moved to the youth field as a coach.

National team

Vickery played for Canada's men's national team at the World Championships in 1994 and 1998. At the World Cup 94, which was played in his home country, Vickery was the Canadian team's third best scorer with an average of 9.6 points per encounter. With the student national team, he took part in the Universiades in 1992 and 1996 (winning the silver medal).

Honors

In 2005, Vickery was inducted into the basketball "Hall of Fame" in his home province of Manitoba. In 2006, he was inducted into the Brandon University Sports Hall of Fame. In 2015, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Manitoba High School Sports Association, and in 2018 he was inducted into the Sports Hall of -Fame "of the province of Manitoba.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ U Sports Hoops - University Basketball in Canada. Retrieved November 13, 2018 (American English).
  2. ↑ R. Pakėnas, LKL: LKL'25. Legendinis "Olimpas": reiškinys Žemaitijoje su išskirtiniais legionieriais . In: DELFI . ( delfi.lt [accessed November 13, 2018]).
  3. ↑ a b Joey Vickery vuelve a España . In: Solobasket . ( solobasket.com [accessed November 13, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Statistiques Joueur | LNB.fr. Retrieved November 13, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Joey Vickery - Split Second Basketball: Vancouver Basketball Training . In: Split Second Basketball: Vancouver Basketball Training . ( splitsecondbasketball.com [accessed November 13, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Topplistor | Jämtland Basket. Retrieved November 13, 2018 (Swedish).
  7. ↑ Joey Vickery leaves the Rocks . In: mein district.at . ( mein district.at [accessed on November 13, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Joey Vickery back at his Rocks . ( bvz.at [accessed on November 13, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Helmut Berger: ADMIRAL Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved November 13, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Mattersburg Rocks: Joey Vickery replaces coach Mike Coffin . In: mein district.at . ( mein district.at [accessed on November 13, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Mattersburg Rocks: Aco Djuric new head coach . In: mein district.at . ( mein district.at [accessed on November 13, 2018]).
  12. ^ Joel David Vickery profile, World Championship for Men 1994 | FIBA.COM . In: FIBA.COM . ( fiba.com [accessed on November 13, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Manitoba Basketball Hall of Fame: Joey Vickery . In: Manitoba Basketball Hall of Fame . ( mbhof.com [accessed November 13, 2018]).
  14. ↑ a b Manitoba Basketball Hall of Fame: Basketball's Joey Vickery to be Inducted into Manitoba Sport Hall of Fame as Part of Class of '18 . In: Manitoba Basketball Hall of Fame . ( mbhof.com [accessed November 13, 2018]).
  15. ^ Joey Vickery (2006) - Brandon University Dick and Verda McDonald Sports Wall of Fame - Brandon University. Accessed November 13, 2018 .
  16. ^ Hall of Fame - Athlete Category . In: Manitoba High School Athletic Association . ( mhsaa.ca [accessed November 13, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Vickery, Joey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vickery, Joel David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1967