Mark Worthington

Mark Worthington
Player information
birthday	June 8, 1983
place of birth	Australind, Australia
size	202 cm
position	Power forward
college	Metro State (Denver)
Clubs as active
2001–2005 MSCD Roadrunners ( NCAA II) 2005–2008 Sydney Kings 2008–2009 Melbourne South Dragons 2009–2010 Melbourne Tigers 2010 Brose Baskets 2010–2012 Gold Coast Blaze → 2011 Mets de Guaynabo ( BSN ) → 2011 Piratas de Quebradillas (BSN) 2012 KK Radnički Kragujevac 00000 000 000 00000
National team
2005–	Australia

Mark Worthington (born June 8, 1983 in Australind , Western Australia ) is an Australian national basketball player who took part in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and the 2006 and 2010 World Basketball Championships . During a brief engagement with Brose Baskets from Bamberg , he won the German double of the cup and championship in 2010 .

college

While studying in the United States played Worthington along with the Austrians Benjamin Ortner for the Roadrunners of Metropolitan State College of Denver in Colorado in the NCAA Division II. In 2002 won the Roadrunners with Worthington the championship of the division against the last year's winner, the Panthers of Kentucky Wesleyan College , repeating their 2000 success against this opponent. In his senior year 2005 , Worthington was named Division II Player of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC).

Professional career

In 2005 Worthington returned to his home country after completing his studies and played for the defending champions Kings from Sydney in the National Basketball League of Australia and New Zealand . With Worthington no championship could be won in the following three years, instead they lost the final series in 2006 and 2008 against the Tigers from Melbourne . In 2008 the Kings license was temporarily revoked. Worthington moved to the South Dragons in Melbourne, but at the end of the 2008/09 season after winning the final series over the Tigers their license returned. Then Worthington signed a contract with local rivals for the 2009/10 season. After the Tigers had not made it into the final play-offs of the best four teams, Worthington signed a contract with Brose Baskets in the BBL in mid-February 2010. Worthington thus succeeded Australian-New Zealand basketball greats such as Luke Schenscher and Mark Dickel , who both competed in the 2007/08 basketball league for the then title holder at Brose . With Schenscher and Dickel, however, the respective contracts were terminated prematurely due to violation and / or lack of prospects. Worthington was more successful at Brose Baskets than his predecessors from the fifth continent . With the other post-engagement, Anton Gavel , he was an important part of the Brose Baskets title win again in June 2010, when they finished fifth in the main round up to the championship finals. As a substitute, Worthington was Bamberg's top scorer in game 3 , which he had previously been in game 2 of the semi-finals. In the final series, after five games, they defeated the Skyliners Frankfurt , which they had also defeated in the cup final two months earlier , and won the double of championship and cup for the first time in the club's history .

National team

Worthington took part in the 2008 Olympic Games and the 2006 and 2010 World Championships with the selection of his home country. In his first participations, he and his team were subject to the selection of the United States in the World Cup round of 16 and in the Olympic quarter-finals . At the 2010 World Cup, Slovenia failed in the round of 16 after leaving the German national basketball team behind in the group stage . At the Commonwealth Games 2006 in Melbourne you could defeat the eternal rival from neighboring New Zealand and win the gold medal in your home country. At the Oceania Championships, Worthington was with Australia in 2005 and 2007 twice in the final series against New Zealand.

Awards

• NABC State Farm Division II Player of the Year 2005
• NBL Rookie of the Year 2006
• Appointment to the space NBL First Team 2008 & 2009

successes

• 2002: NCAA Division II champions with the MSCD Roadrunners
• 2006 & 2008: NBL runner-up with the Sydney Kings
• 2009: NBL champions with the Melbourne South Dragons
• 2010: German cup winner & German champion with the Brose Baskets Bamberg

Web links

• Players - Mark Worthington (AUS). archive.fiba.com - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)
• Player statistics for Mark Worthington - Statistics of the NBL Australasia at SportingPulse.com (English)
• Basketball Australia: Mark Worthington - Profile and statistics for the Boomers national team at SportingPulse.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Men's Basketball 2009-10 Media Guide. (PDF; 3.5 MB) Metropolitan State College of Denver , December 15, 2009, p. 41ff. , accessed on March 9, 2010 . 
2. ↑ Player of the Year Awards: NCAA Division II Player of the Year. NABC.org, accessed April 2, 2013 . 
3. ↑ Brose Baskets receive third place in the table - Brose Baskets introduce Mark Worthington. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , February 25, 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved on March 9, 2010 (Media Info Brose Baskets).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
4. ^ Mark Worthington (Brose Baskets). (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , formerly the original ; accessed on April 2, 2013 (seasonal statistics 2009/10).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.