Josh Heytvelt

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Josh Heytvelt
Hitachi SunRockers
Career highlights and awards
  • Croatian A-1 League
    champion (2011)
  • Croatian Cup champion (2011)
  • First-team All-WCC (2009)

Joshua Rolin Heytvelt (

Hitachi SunRockers of the Japanese National Basketball League
.

College

The 6-foot 11 inch (2.11 m)

Maui Invitational
.

In the 2006–07 season, he emerged as a potential star, becoming the team's second-leading scorer with 15.5 per game (behind Derek Raivio), top rebounder (7.7 per game), and leading shot-blocker (1.7 per game).[3] The best game of his career came on February 26, 2009 against Santa Clara, when he scored 29 points and grabbed 9 rebounds. However, in what was effectively his freshman year as a player, there were several games in which he made only sporadic impact.[2]

Professional career

Following his senior season with Gonzaga in 2008–09, he declared for the

Oyak Renault
.

In May 2010, he signed with

Lottomatica Roma until the end of the 2009–10 season and then was re-signed for another season,[5] but left the team in January 2011.[6] On January 13, 2011 he signed with KK Zagreb in Croatia until the end of the season.[7]
He later re-signed with Zagreb for one more season.

On June 28, 2012, Heytvelt returned to Turkey after signing a contract with Tofaş for the 2012–13 season.[8] For the 2013–14 season, he signed with Yeşilgiresun Belediye of the Turkish Basketball Second League.

On August 2, 2014, Heytvelt signed with

Hitachi SunRockers of the Japanese National Basketball League.[9]

References

  1. ^ "2007 Gonzaga Basketball Summer Prospectus: 2008 Bulldogs Roster". Gonzaga University Athletics. Archived from the original on February 11, 2009. Retrieved August 1, 2007.
  2. ^ a b "Drug bust shakes Gonzaga and Spokane". Associated Press. February 15, 2007.
  3. PDF). Gonzaga University
    . Retrieved March 5, 2007.
  4. ^ Steinberg, Dan (July 15, 2009). "Undrafted Josh Heytvelt Seeks Fresh Start With Wizards' Summer League Team". Washingtonpost.com. Retrieved December 18, 2014.
  5. ^ "Roma re-signs Heytvelt, releases Hutson". Euroleague.net. August 16, 2010. Retrieved February 12, 2015.
  6. ^ "Virtus Roma and Josh Heytvelt part ways". Sportando.com. January 11, 2011. Retrieved December 18, 2014.
  7. ^ "Josh Heytvelt inks with KK Zagreb". Sportando.com. January 13, 2011. Retrieved December 18, 2014.
  8. ^ "Josh Heytvelt moves to Tofas Bursa". Sportando.com. June 28, 2012. Retrieved December 18, 2014.
  9. ^ "Joshua Heytvelt (ex Yesilgiresun) signs at Hitachi Sunrockers". Eurobasket.com. August 2, 2014. Retrieved December 18, 2014.
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