Artūrs Visockis-Rubenis
Artūrs Visockis-Rubenis (born August 11, 1985) is a BK Ventspils head coach.[1]
| BK Ventspils | ||||||||||||||
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| Position | Head coach | |||||||||||||
| League | LEBL Eurocup | |||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
| Born | August 11, 1985 Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | Latvian | |||||||||||||
| Career history | ||||||||||||||
| As coach: | ||||||||||||||
| 2011–2016 | Latvijas Universitāte | |||||||||||||
| 2015–2017 | Latvia (women) (assistant) | |||||||||||||
| 2016 | Latvia U16 | |||||||||||||
| 2016–2019 | BK Ogre | |||||||||||||
| 2017–2019 | Latvia (assistant) | |||||||||||||
| 2018 | Latvia U18 | |||||||||||||
| 2019 | Latvia U19 | |||||||||||||
| 2019–present | BK Ventspils | |||||||||||||
| Career highlights and awards | ||||||||||||||
As head coach:
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Career
From 2011 till 2016 he worked as a head coach of Latvijas Universitāte.[2] From 2016 till 2019 he worked as head coach for BK Ogre, guiding them to first Latvian league medals in club's history. In summer of 2019 Visockis-Rubenis signed with 10-time Latvian champions BK Ventspils.[3].
National teams
In 2015 he was named Latvian U16 team head coach [4] and led the team in 2016 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship.
From 2015 Visockis-Rubenis is also an assistant coach of Latvia women's national basketball team. [5] In 2017, Visockis-Rubenis was also appointed as an assistant for Men's National Team [6].
In 2018 Visockis-Rubenis was named Latvian U18 head coach and led his team to historical 2018 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship silver - it was the first time Latvian U18 team went to the final. Team qualified for 2019 FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup. Later that year federation named Visockis-Rubenis also the head coach of U19 National Team for World Cup[7].
Awards
In November 2018 Visockis-Rubenis was awarded Latvian Coach of the Year award[8].
References
- Visockis-Rubenis kļūst par BK OGRE/KUMHO TYRE galveno treneri
- LU turpmāk cīņās vedīs Visockis-Rubenis
- Ventspils hire coach Visockis-Rubenis
- "Artūrs Visockis-Rubenis kļūst par Latvijas U16 izlases galveno treneri". Archived from the original on 2017-11-10. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
- http://www.sportazinas.com/par-sieviesu-izlases-galveno-treneri-iecelts-zibarts
- http://basket.lv/izlases/viriesi/viriesu-valstsvieniba-bagatskim-palidzes-vecvagars-un-visockis-rubenis-3845
- https://basket.lv/izlases/juniori-u18/u19-puisu-izlasi-trenes-arturs-visockis-rubenis-u18-izlasi-raimonds-feldmanis-5425
- https://basket.lv/lbs/gada-balvas-basketbola2018-iegust-kitija-laksa-janis-strelnieks-arturs-visockis-rubenis-un-5457