Devon van Oostrum

Devon van Oostrum
Van Oostrum in action with Cáceres, 2013
No. 1 – New Heroes
Position Point guard
League Dutch Basketball League
FIBA Europe Cup
Personal information
Born (1993-01-24) 24 January 1993
Groningen, Netherlands
Nationality British / Dutch
Listed height 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Listed weight 84 kg (185 lb)
Career information
NBA draft 2015 / Undrafted
Playing career 2008–present
Career history
2008–2009 Sheffield Sharks
2009–2016 Baskonia
2009–2011 → Fundación Baskonia
2011–2012 → Tarragona
2012–2013 → Cáceres
2014 → Cibona Zagreb
2014 → Kouvot
2015 → Leeds Force
2015 → Peñas Huesca
2015–2016 → Arkadikos
2016–2017 Koroivos Amaliadas
2017 MZT Skopje
2018–present New Heroes Den Bosch

Devon van Oostrum (born 24 January 1993)[1] is a British-Dutch professional basketball player who plays for New Heroes Den Bosch of the Dutch Basketball League. He has represented the Great Britain men's national basketball team.

Professional career

After attending Silverdale School in Sheffield,[2] van Oostrum started his basketball career with British basketball league club Sheffield Sharks in 2008. In May 2009, van Oostrum moved to Spanish ACB team Caja Laboral,[3] who loaned him to the reserve team Euskotren Fundación Baskonia, of the fifth tier of the Spanish basketball league.[4]

In 2011, after playing in the 2011 Eurobasket tournament, he was loaned to Bàsquet Tarragona 2017, team of the Spanish second tier league LEB Oro.[5] After winning the LEB relegation playoffs, van Oostrum was called by Caja Laboral to join the roster for the 2012 ACB Playoffs.

In the summer of 2012, Baskonia sent him on loan to the LEB Oro team Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad.[6] In February 2013, he came back to the club of Vitoria after the departure of Carlos Cabezas.[7] In September 2014, he was loaned to Cibona Zagreb for one season.[8] On October 31, 2014, Cibona terminated contract with him, so he returned to Laboral Kutxa.[9]

On 14 November 2014, Baskonia agreed a new loan, this time to Finnish team Kouvot.[10] On 22 December 2014, he parted ways with Kouvot after playing 6 games with the club.[11] On 7 January 2015 he was loaned to Leeds Force of the British Basketball League[12] and made his debut three days later, scoring 16 points and 6 assists shooting 6-17 from the field on a loss against Plymouth Raiders.[13] Afterwards he was loaned to Peñas Huesca of the LEB Oro.[14][15]

On 11 August 2015, Van Oostrum was loaned to Arkadikos of the Greek Basket League for the 2015–16 season.[16][17]

On 11 August 2016, Van Oostrum signed with Koroivos Amaliadas for the 2016–17 season.[18] On 13 January 2017, he was released by Koroivos.[19] Seven days later, he signed with Macedonian club MZT Skopje for the rest of the season [20] On 27 February 2017, he parted ways with MZT Skopje because of knee injury during a semifinal match in the Macedonian Cup.[21]

On 5 July 2018, Van Oostrum signed with New Heroes Den Bosch of the Dutch Basketball League (DBL) and the FIBA Europe Cup.[22] On 3 October, Van Oostrum made his debut with Den Bosch in the FIBA Europe Cup qualifying game against Balkan, scoring 17 points and recording 9 rebounds and 3 assists.[23] in the On 4 October, he played four minutes in his DBL debut in a win over Feyenoord Basketbal.[24]

International career

Van Oostrum's international debut was for England in the 2008 Under-16 European Championships. He represented Great Britain at under 20 level, and made his debut for the British senior team in a friendly against Canada. In 2011, he played for Great Britain at the EuroBasket finals in Lithuania and was named British Basketball's Emerging Athlete for the year. He missed out on a place in the Team GB squad for the 2012 Summer Olympics.[25] He also played at the EuroBasket 2013 in Slovenia, and in EuroBasket 2015 qualification.[26]

Personal

Van Oostrum is the son of Duco van Oostrum, who played basketball at the precursor of Aris Leeuwarden in the Netherlands and since 1995 teaches at Sheffield University.[27] Devon's older brother Nigel van Oostrum plays at Landstede Basketbal since 2016. He holds dual citizenship between the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.[28][29]

References

  1. ↑ Euroleague.net profile
  2. ↑ "Silverdale's grand national double act". Sheffield Telegraph. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  3. ↑ "Tau is already planning the future". Sportando.com. 2009-05-11. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 13 October 2011. Retrieved 29 August 2011.
  5. ↑ "Van Oostrum, lligat | Rafa Marrasé | tarragona | Bàsquet FEB | L'Esportiu de Catalunya | Notícia". El9.cat. 2011-09-21. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  6. ↑ "Devon Van Oostrum jugará en Cáceres". Acb.com. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  7. ↑ "Caja Laboral waive Carlos Cabezas, recall Devon Van Oostrum". Sportando.com. 2013-02-25. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  8. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 29 September 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  9. ↑ "Devon Van Oostrum no continuará en la Cibona de Zagreb". Baskonia.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  10. ↑ "Devon Van Oostrum, cedido al Kouvot Basketball finlandés". Acb.com. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  11. ↑ '+data.game.min+'. "Devon Van Oostrum leaves Kouvot". Sportando.com. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  12. ↑ "Devon Van Oostrum moves to Leeds Force". Sportando.com. 2015-01-08. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  13. ↑ Gains, Bradley (2015-01-10). "Devon van Oostrum Scores Season-High 16pts on Leeds Debut". Hoopsfix.com. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  14. ↑ "Baskonia loans Devon Van Oostrum to Peñas Huesca". Sportando.com. 2015-01-11. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  15. ↑ "Devon Van Oostrum jugará en el Peñas Huesca hasta final de temporada". Acb.Com. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  16. ↑ "Arcadikos BC signs Devon Van Oostrum". Sportando.com. 2017-06-21. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  17. ↑ "Στον Αρκαδικό ο Devon Van Oostrum! | ΑΡΚΑΔΙΚΟΣ BC". Arcadikosbc.gr (in Greek). 1993-01-24. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  18. ↑ "Greek Basketball, Teams, Scores, Stats, News, Standings - eurobasket News". Eurobasket.com. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  19. ↑
  20. ↑ "МЗТ Скопје Аеродром ангажира уште еден репрезентативец на Велика Британија!" (in Macedonian). mztskopjeaerodrom.mk. 20 January 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  21. ↑ "Ван Острум замина на операција во Лондон, му посакуваме брзо опоравување и успех во кариерата" (in Macedonian). mztskopjeaerodrom.mk. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  22. ↑
  23. ↑
  24. ↑
  25. ↑ "Devon Van Oostrum". British Basketball. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
  26. ↑ "Players". Archive.fiba.com. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  27. ↑ "van Oostrum - people - English - The University of Sheffield". Shef.ac.uk. 2016-03-31. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  28. ↑ "Devon van Oostrum on loan to Cibona". Court Side Newspaper. September 30, 2014. Retrieved June 24, 2017.
  29. ↑ "Devon Van Oostrum (ex Koroivos) signs at MZT Skopje". Eurobasket News. January 20, 2017. Retrieved June 24, 2017.
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