Estudiantes de Bahía Blanca

Estudiantes
Nickname Albo (White)
Leagues Liga Nacional de Básquet
FIBA Americas League
Founded 21 March 1918 (1918-03-21)
Arena Estadio Osvaldo Casanova
Capacity 3,950
Location Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Team colors          
President Francisco Fuster
Head coach Sebastián Ginóbili
Website clubestudiantesbb.com
Uniforms

Club Estudiantes de Bahía Blanca is an Argentine sports club based in Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province. The club is best known for its basketball team, that currently plays in the Liga Nacional de Básquet (LNB), the top division of the Argentine league system. Estudiantes is nicknamed Albo (in English: "White") for the traditional white and light blue colors of its uniform.

Manu Ginóbili of the NBA's San Antonio Spurs played for Estudiantes prior to moving to the Italian league in 1998.

Apart from basketball, other activities at the club are gymnastics, handball, judo, karate, volleyball and yoga.[1]

Players

Current roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.

Estudiantes (BB) roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.No.Nat.NameHt.Age
SG 2 Argentina Fjellerup, Máximo 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 20 – (1997-11-24)24 November 1997
PF 6 Panama Levy, Jamaal 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 35 – (1983-01-08)8 January 1983
SF 7 Argentina Vaulet, Juan Pablo 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 22 – (1996-03-22)22 March 1996
SF 8 Argentina Fernández, Martín 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 21 – (1997-03-27)27 March 1997
PG 9 Argentina Whelan, Gastón 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) 24 – (1994-10-06)6 October 1994
F 15 Argentina Filippa, Francisco 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 23 – (1995-09-30)30 September 1995
PG 17 Argentina Corvalán, Facundo 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 20 – (1998-09-10)10 September 1998
PG 23 Uruguay Parodi, Luciano 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) 24 – (1994-02-16)16 February 1994
C 32 United States Johnson, Anthony 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) 30 – (1988-05-19)19 May 1988
SF 41 Argentina Jasen, Hernán 1.99 m (6 ft 6 in) 40 – (1978-02-04)4 February 1978
SF 0 United States Thomas, Tyron 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 34 – (1984-05-16)16 May 1984
Head coach
  • Argentina Sebastian Ginobili
Assistant coach(es)
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Injured
Updated: 2017-09-01

Retired numbers

Estudiantes retired numbers
N° Player Position Tenure Num. Retirement
10Argentina Juan EspilSG1988–1992, 2010–201222 February 2013 [2][3]
14Argentina Alberto CabreraPG1961–19843 October 2004 [4][5]

Notable former players

To appear in this section a player must have either, set a club record or won an individual award as a professional player or played at least one official international match for his senior national team or one NBA game at any time.

References

  1. ↑ Disciplinas on Estudiantes BB website
  2. ↑ "Espil vivió su noche soñada" at CanchaLlena.com, 22 February 2013
  3. ↑ "Espil tuvo su merecido homenaje en Bahía", Clarín, 23 February 2013
  4. ↑ "La 14 inmortal" Pick and Roll, 2004-10-04
  5. ↑ Ordenanza Nº 14604, declarando "Sitio de Interés Cultural e Histórico" al Estadio Osvaldo Casanova 2008-01-08


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