Peter van Elswyk

Peter Jason A. van Elswyk (also written: Peter van Elswijk ) ( born May 10, 1974 in Hamilton, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional basketball player.

After studying in the United States, the Canadian national team tried as a professional in Europe, for which he accepted the Dutch citizenship of his ancestors, as he so profited by the changes in consequence of the Bosman ruling. In the highest European leagues handed it usually only on short-term contracts, so the van Elswyk was able to record only a few inserts for a club in general, including four inserts for the Haribo Towers of London in the newly created ULEB Euro League as höchstrangigem European club competition. In the 2000 /01 season van Elswyk then had four operations for the then first division BCJ Tigers from Hamburg in the German Basketball Bundesliga. But most attention was an incident off the championship games than van Elswyk was attacked by his teammate Duane Woodward in training with solid punches and had to be treated with facial injuries in hospital. Woodward, scorer of the Hamburg team, was subsequently dismissed. Having played yet for the league rivals City Sports from Braunschweig end of the season, van Elswyk was then still in the second highest Italian league Legadue and the " English Basketball League " is active, which also represents the second highest national league underneath the British Basketball League. Later van Elswyk still played in the Italian Serie C regional unterklassigen for different clubs from Abruzzo.