BK Jēkabpils

BK Jēkabpils
Nickname Lūši (Lynxes)
Leagues LBL
Baltic League
Founded 2012
Arena Jēkabpils Sporta nams
Location Jēkabpils, Latvia
Team colors White and Red
         
President Latvia Leonīds Salcevičs
Head coach Latvia Sandis Buškevics
Website bkjekabpils.lv
Uniforms

BK Jēkabpils is a professional basketball club based in Jēkabpils, Latvia, playing in the Latvian Basketball League and Baltic Basketball League. It was founded in 2012 and since then the club is playing in LBL higher division. The club's home arena is the Jēkabpils Sporta nams.

In its first season the club entered the Latvian Basketball League playoff quarterfinals, which they lost to Barons kvartāls team. Already in the next 2013–2014th season the club had even greater success with their coach Igors Miglinieks to win LBL bronze medals.[1] In their third season Jēkabpils outplayed Liepāja/Triobet and the second year in a row obtained LBL bronze.[2]

Roster

As of February 8, 2017
# Player Pos. Height Weight
0 United States Derrick Roland G 193 cm 90 kg
1 Latvia Roberts Stumbris SF 200 cm 98 kg
2 Latvia Edijs Stiebriņš G/F 188 cm 76 kg
4 Belarus Dzianis Vikentsyeu F/C 206 cm 100 kg
6 Latvia Oskars Virsis (C) G 192 cm 99 kg
7 Latvia Edgars Štelmahers PG 184 cm 78 kg
8 Latvia Kristaps Kanbergs G 188 cm 90 kg
11 Latvia Jurijs Aleksejevs C 201 cm 117 kg
13 Latvia Renārs Magone F 201 cm 104 kg
24 Lithuania Dominykas Domarkas G 190 cm 88 kg
31 Latvia Artūrs Vītiņš F 196 cm 103 kg
33 Latvia Matīss Koļesinskis G 192 cm 77 kg
50 Latvia Matīss Surkulis F 200 cm 90 kg

Season by season

Season League Pos. Baltic League
2012–13 LBL 5th
2013–14 LBL 3rd Round of 16
2014–15 LBL 3rd Round of 16
2015–16 LBL 7th Quarterfinalist
2016–17 LBL 5th Round of 16
2017–18 LBL 7th

Coaches

Notable players

References

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