Artūrs Visockis-Rubenis
Artūrs Visockis-Rubenis (born August 11, 1985) is a Latvian professional basketball coach, who is currently a head coach for BK Liepāja,[1] and an assistant for Luca Banchi in Latvian National Team.
| BK Liepāja | |||||||||||||||
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| Position | Head coach | ||||||||||||||
| League | LEBL | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | BK Ventspils | ||||||||||||||
| 2020–present | BK Liepāja | ||||||||||||||
| 2021–present | Latvia (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
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As head coach:
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Career edit
From 2011 till 2016 he worked as a head coach of Latvijas Universitāte, reaching Latvian League semi-finals in his debut season.[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 and debuted in FIBA Europe Cup level helping the team to reach the quarterfinals.[3] In summer of 2020 Visockis-Rubenis became a head coach for BK Liepāja, signing a multi-year contract.
National teams edit
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] participating in EuroBasket Women 2017 (6th place) and 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup. In 2017, Visockis-Rubenis was also appointed as an assistant for Men's National Team,[6] participating in EuroBasket 2017 (5th place) and 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification.
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]
In 2020 he was again appointed a head coach for Latvian U-18 National team.
Honors and awards edit
Club career edit
- BK Ogre (2016-2019)
- Latvian Basketball League Bronze: (2019)
- BK Ventspils (2019–2020)
- Latvian Basketball League Bronze: (2020)
Individual edit
- Latvian Coach of the Year: (2018)[8]
National Team edit
References edit
- ^ BK “Liepāja” turpmāk vadīs Artūrs Visockis-Rubenis
- ^ LU turpmāk cīņās vedīs Visockis-Rubenis
- ^ Ventspils hire coach Visockis-Rubenis
- ^ . Archived from the original on 2017-11-10. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
- ^ "Par sieviešu izlases galveno treneri iecelts Zībarts" (in Latvian). Retrieved 2023-12-24.
- ^ . Archived from the original on 2018-08-06. Retrieved 2017-11-09.
- ^ . Archived from the original on 2018-11-29. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
- ^ . Archived from the original on 2018-11-29. Retrieved 2018-11-29.