Mark Worthington
Mark Worthington ( born June 8, 1983 in Australind, Western Australia ) is an Australian basketball international, who has participated in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and the World Basketball Championships in 2006 and 2010. During a brief involvement with the Brose Baskets Bamberg in 2010 he won the German double in league and cup.
College
While studying in the United States Worthington played together with the Austrians Benjamin Ortner for the Roadrunners of Metro State College of Denver in Colorado in the NCAA Division II in 2002 won the Roadrunners with the Worthington Cup against last year's winner of this division, the Panthers of Kentucky Wesleyan College, and thus repeated its success in 2000 against these opponents. In his senior year in 2005 as Senior Worthington was voted player of the year, the Division II of the Association of College Basketball Coaches ( National Association of Basketball Coaches NABC ).
Professional career
2005 Worthington returned after graduation returned to his homeland, playing for the defending champion from Sydney Kings in the National Basketball League of Australia and New Zealand. With Worthington no championship could be won in the next three years, instead they lost in 2006 and 2008 against the Tigers from Melbourne's finals series. 2008 Kings the license was temporarily revoked. Worthington moved to the South Dragons in Melbourne, but that returned at the end of the 2008/09 season after winning the final series over the Tigers their license. Then signed a contract with Worthington rivals for the season 2009/10. After that, it had not made it into the final play-offs of the top four teams the Tigers, Worthington signed mid-February 2010 a contract with the Brose Baskets in the BBL. Worthington thus entered at Brose in the Australian- New Zealand successor basketball greats such as Luke 's shear and Mark Dickel, who both competed in the National Basketball League 2007/ 08 for the former title holder. When 's shear and Dickel, however, the respective contracts were terminated prematurely due to injury and / or a lack of perspective. Worthington was more successful than its predecessor, the fifth continent at the Brose Baskets. With the other Nachverpflichtung Anton Gavel, he was a key component in re- title the Brose Baskets in June 2010, when they moved in fifth -placed the main round to the finals for the championship. As a substitute Worthington was in Game 3 scorer of Bamberg, which he had been in Game 2 of the semifinal before. In the final series after five games to beat the Frankfurt Skyliners, which had been two months earlier was also defeated in the cup final, and won for the first time in Bamberg club history, the league and cup double.
National
Worthington has participated with the selection of his native country at the 2008 Olympic Games and the World Championships in 2006 and 2010. In his first appearances he was defeated with his team in the World Cup knockout stages as well as in the Olympic quarterfinals each of the choice of the United States. In the 2010 World Cup you failed in the second round of Slovenia, after leaving the group stage the German national basketball team behind it. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne could be the eternal rivals from the neighboring country New Zealand defeat and win the gold medal in the home country. The Ozeanienmeisterschaften Worthington was with Australia in 2005 and twice in 2007 the winner in the final series against New Zealand.
Awards
- NABC State Farm Division II Player of the Year 2005
- NBL Rookie of the Year 2006
- Appeals to All NBL First Team 2008 & 2009
Achievements
- 2002: NCAA Division II champion with the MSCD Roadrunners
- 2006 & 2008: NBL- runner with the Sydney Kings
- 2009: NBL champion with the Melbourne South Dragons
- 2010: German Cup & German champions Brose Baskets Bamberg with the