Mark Veenstra

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Mark Veenstra is a retired American basketball player .

career

Veenstra played basketball from 1974 to 1977 for the team at Calvin College in the US state of Michigan . In his three years there, he scored more than 20 points per game in each season. His maximum value was 28 points per game in the 1975/76 game year. Then the 2.06 meter tall indoor player played in the 1977/78 season for the German Bundesliga club USC Heidelberg and was DBB Cup winner and runner-up with the team. In the Bundesliga game year he achieved an average of 22.9 points per game.

He returned to the United States, graduated from Wayne State University with  a degree in medicine, and worked as an orthopedic surgeon in Kalamazoo . In 2014 he retired. He built a hospital in Honduras , where he and medical colleagues from the USA practiced on a voluntary basis.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Calvin College: Calvin College to present Dr. Mark Veenstra with Knight of Distinction Award. May 13, 2015. Retrieved May 4, 2019 (American English).
  2. ^ All-Time Calvin College Men's Basketball Leaders. Retrieved May 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Season 1977/1978. In: USC Heidelberg. Retrieved on May 4, 2019 (German).
  4. ^ Mark Veenstra, MD - Biography - Faculty Profile. Retrieved May 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Kate Tillotson | Newschannel 3: Forward Focus: Michigan doctors, nurses treat some of the world's poorest in Honduras. January 21, 2019, accessed May 4, 2019 .


personal data
SURNAME Veenstra, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century