BK Jēkabpils

BK Jēkabpils
Nickname	Lūši (Lynxes)
Leagues	LBL Baltic League
Founded	2012
Arena	Jēkabpils Sporta nams
Location	Jēkabpils, Latvia
Team colors	White and Red
President	Leonīds Salcevičs
Head coach	Rūdolfs Rozītis
Website	bkjekabpils.lv
Uniforms
Home Away

BK Jēkabpils is a professional basketball club based in Jēkabpils, Latvia, playing in the Latvian Basketball League and Baltic Basketball League. It was founded in 2012 and since then the club is playing in LBL higher division. The club's home arena is the Jēkabpils Sporta nams.

In its first season the club entered the Latvian Basketball League playoff quarterfinals, which they lost to Barons kvartāls team. Already in the next 2013–2014th season the club had even greater success with their coach Igors Miglinieks to win LBL bronze medals.^[1] In their third season Jēkabpils outplayed Liepāja/Triobet and the second year in a row obtained LBL bronze.^[2]

Roster

As of August 11, 2016

#		Player	Pos.	Height	Weight
4		Pāvels Veselovs	F/C	206 cm	107 kg
6		Oskars Virsis	G	192 cm	95 kg
12		Rinalds Sirsniņš (C)	PG	186 cm	90 kg
22		Kristaps Miglinieks	G	196 cm	89 kg
40		Renārs Magone	F	201 cm	82 kg
		Jurijs Aleksejevs	C	202 cm	112 kg
		Jānis Antrops	G	193 cm	91 kg
		Artūrs Vītiņš	F	198 cm	109 kg
		Mikus Sokolovs	G	195 cm	89 kg
		Edgars Štelmahers	PG	187 cm	75 kg
		Andrejs Šeļakovs	C	207 cm	115 kg
		Roberts Stumbris	SF	199 cm	98 kg

Season by season

Coaches

• Edgars Teteris (2012–2014)
• Igors Miglinieks (2014)
• Edmunds Valeiko (2014–2015)
• Igors Miglinieks (2015–2016)
• Rūdolfs Rozītis (2016–)

Notable players

• Aigars Vītols
• Michal Hlebowicki
• Rinalds Sirsniņš
• Mārtiņš Kravčenko
• Pāvels Veselovs
• Andrejs Šeļakovs
• Povilas Čukinas
• Rihards Kuksiks
• Dovydas Redikas

References

External links

• Official website (Latvian)