Rebecca Thoresen

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Basketball player
Rebecca Thoresen
Information about the player
Full name Rebecca Thoresen
birthday January 29, 1978
place of birth Melbourne , Australia
size 1.78
position Development and winger
National team
{{{national years}}} Malta {{{national games}}}

Rebecca Thoresen (* 29. January  1978 in Melbourne , as Rebecca Brincat ) is a former Australian / Maltese basketball player .

career

The 1.78 meter tall build-up and winger was in her home country of Australia in the service of the Dandenong Rangers, the Kilsyth Cobras and from 1999 to 2001 the Melbourne Tigers. In 2001 she moved to Germany and strengthened SC Rist Wedel in the women's Bundesliga . In the 2001/02 and 2002/03 seasons she was the best scorer in the Bundesliga. In the 2003/04 game year she ran first for the Austrian Bundesliga club Wels, and then for the Sheffield Hatters in England.

She then played for Perth Lynx in Australia before returning to Germany during the 2005/06 season and playing for BBV Leipzig in the Bundesliga until spring 2006. In 2006/07 the Australian played for NB Oberhausen in the Bundesliga.

In 2007 she moved within the Bundesliga to TSV 1880 Wasserburg , with whom she was German champion in 2008, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017 and cup winner in 2011, 2014, 2016 and 2017. With Wasserburg she also competed regularly in the European Cup. In the meantime she had taken a break due to her pregnancy (the daughter was born in September 2014), during the 2015/16 season, in addition to short stints in the Bundesliga, she played primarily in Wasserburg's second team in the 2nd Bundesliga, before she returned to the Bundesliga team in 2016 and played until the end of the 2016/17 season.

As an Australian with a Maltese passport, Thoresen, who gave up her maiden name Brincat after her wedding to her husband Thomas, who came from Norway, played in international matches for Malta and took part in the "Games of the Small Countries" and the Mediterranean Games. In 2008 she won the C-European Championship with Malta. She was named Malta's 2009 Sportswoman of the Year.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b TSV Wasserburg Basketball department: Profile. Retrieved June 12, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Frank Will: Rebecca Brincat stays with the instep ladies. In: Abendblatt.de. July 19, 2002, accessed June 12, 2018 .
  3. ^ A b Rebecca Brincat Thoresen To play for Malta - The Malta Independent. Retrieved June 12, 2018 .
  4. ↑ http://www.sportindorsten.de/publish/viewfull.cfm?objectID=3b88ed78%5Fc8be%5F4a39%5Fa4103318d2dbd934
  5. ^ Injury hit Hatters fail in fightback . ( thestar.co.uk [accessed June 12, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Michael Heinrich: Basketball women: BBV Leipzig ready for higher goals . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed June 12, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Rebecca Thoresen | EuroCup Women (2013) | FIBA Europe. Retrieved June 12, 2018 .
  8. ↑ https://www.ovb-online.de/rosenheim/wasserburg/hurra-3872598.html
  9. ↑ https://www.wasserburg24.de/sport/regionalsport/basketball-wasserburg-rebecca-thoresen-zurueck-ersten-mannschaft-6638105.html
  10. ↑ https://www.ovb-online.de/rosenheim/freude-internationalen-spektakel-3650248.html
  11. ↑ Rebecca Thoresen takes a break . In: https://www.rosenheim24.de . August 4, 2009 ( rosenheim24.de [accessed June 12, 2018]).
  12. ↑ Basketball - After Malta's European Division C victory: Caroline Fenech describes big emotional moment in Luxembourg - The Malta Independent. Retrieved June 12, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Great honor for Rebecca Thoresen . In: https://www.rosenheim24.de . February 28, 2010 ( rosenheim24.de [accessed June 12, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Thoresen, Rebecca
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brincat, Rebecca (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian-Maltese basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne