Devon van Oostrum

Devon van Oostrum Doekele (born 24 January 1993 at Groningen, The Netherlands ) is a British professional basketball player. Van Oostrum came early with 16 years in the training program of the Basque club Saski Baskonia, from which he was loaned to various unterklassige clubs in Spain. After he was also active for England youth teams before, he made his debut in 2011 in the British men's national team. In February 2013 he returned to Saski Baskonia, replacing Carlos Cabezas in the squad of the club in the Spanish top league ACB.

Career

Van Oostrum went to Sheffield in the " Silverdale School " to school and played until 2009 in the youth teams of the Sheffield Sharks, whose men's team plays in the top domestic league championship British Basketball League. In the U16 European Championship Division B 2009 he returned to average 21 points, seven rebounds, nearly six ball gains over four assists per game a " complete package " from and led the English selection, which narrowly missed promotion to the Division A, to third place before the Slovenian junior. Then took him into the club Saski Baskonia from Vitoria- Gasteiz into his training program. Here he played for two years in the youth team Euskotren Fundación Baskonia the professional men's team.

After van Oostrum had been elected in 2010 as a 17 -year-old at the U18 European Championship Division among the five best players, he debuted in the summer of 2011 at the Olympic warm-up tournament in London in the British men's national team, the occasion of the awarding of the 2012 Olympics had been formed to London from the selected teams of three associations in Britain. For the season 2011/12 van Oostrum was loaned by his Basque club in the Spanish second division Basket 2017 from Tarragona in the LEB Oro. As a Third to last the final table Tarragona won the play-off series to the relegation against league rivals Clínicas Rincón smooth in three games, but refrained from economic reasons, then on further participation in the professional leagues of the LEB. Van Oostrum managed then in the summer of 2012 not in the final squad of British men's national team for the 2012 Olympics. For the following season, 2012/13 van Oostrum was loaned to the former league rivals Patrimony of Humanity from Cáceres, in the preseason had just missed promotion to the ACB league in the semi-final play-offs. After the premature end of the contract of Carlos Cabezas for Laboral Kutxa, the new sponsors name Erstligamannschaft of Saski Baskonia, in February 2013 then van Oostrum rose to the ACB league by being included in the squad of the Spanish giants.