Guðrún Ósk Ámundadóttir

Guðrún Ósk Ámundadóttir (born 7 May 1987) is an Icelandic basketball coach and a former member of the Icelandic national basketball team. She is currently the head coach of Skallagrímur.[1] As a player, she won the national championship twice and the Icelandic Cup five times.[2]

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Guðrún Ósk.
Guðrún Ósk Ámundadóttir
Skallagrímur
PositionHead coach
LeagueÚrvalsdeild kvenna
Personal information
Born (1987-05-07) 7 May 1987
NationalityIcelandic
Listed height179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Career information
Playing career2003–2019
PositionGuard
Coaching career2019–present
Career history
As player:
2003–2007Haukar
2007–2009KR
2009–2015Haukar
2015–2019Skallagrímur
As coach:
2018–2019Skallagrímur (assistant)
2019–presentSkallagrímur
Career highlights and awards
As player:

As coach:

Club career

After coming up through the junior programs of Skallagrímur,[3] Guðrún started her senior team career with Haukar in 2003 and helped the team win two national championships and five Icelandic Cups. She played for KR from 2007 to 2009, winning the Icelandic Cup during her later season with the team.[4]

She returned to her hometown team of Skallagrímur in 2015.[5] In her first game, she posted a triple-double with 10 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists.[6] In 2017 she helped Skallagrímur to the Cup finals[2] where it eventually lost to Valur. She retired from playing after being hired as the head coach of Skallagrímur in September 2019.

Titles

National team career

Guðrún played in nine games for the Icelandic national basketball team from 2008 to 2009.[7]

Coaching career

After serving as an assistant coach to Biljana Stanković for the 2018–19 season, she was hired as the head coach of Skallagrímur in September 2019.[8] In February 2020, she guided Skallagrímur to its first major title since 1964 when the team defeated KR in the Icelandic Cup finals.[9] In the Úrvalsdeild, the team posted á 15–10 record before the rest of the season was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic in Iceland.[10]

On 20 September 2020, she guided Skallagrímur to its first victory in the Icelandic Super Cup by defeating Valur 74–68.[11]

Titles

Personal life

Guðrún is the sister of basketball players Sigrún Sjöfn Ámundadóttir and Arna Hrönn Ámundadóttir.[12]

References
  1. Sindri Sverrisson (18 April 2020). "Þjálfari bikarmeistaranna heldur áfram". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  2. Óskar Ófeigur Jónsson (11 February 2017). "Systurnar úr Borgarnesi hafa aldrei tapað bikarúrslitaleik saman". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  3. "Guðrún þjálfar Skallagrím". Skessuhorn (in Icelandic). 27 September 2019. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  4. Óskar Ófeigur Jónsson (22 February 2014). "Guðrún hefur unnið bikarinn í öll fjögur skipti sín í Höllinni". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  5. Óskar Ófeigur Jónsson (5 July 2015). "Kristrún, Guðrún Ósk og Signý í Skallagrím". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  6. "Sigur í fyrsta leik og fyrsta þrenna vetrarins". Skessuhron (in Icelandic). 12 October 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  7. "A landslið". kki.is (in Icelandic). Icelandic Basketball Association. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  8. Ingvi Þór Sæmundsson (26 September 2019). "Guðrún tekur við Skallagrími". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  9. Valur Páll Eiríksson (15 February 2020). "Bikarinn fer í Borgarnes á blótið". RÚV (in Icelandic). Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  10. "Samið um að Guðrún Ósk þjálfi Skallagrím áfram". Skessuhorn (in Icelandic). 19 April 2020. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  11. "Bikarmeistararnir gegn Íslandsmeisturunum" (in Icelandic). Vísir.is. 20 September 2020. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  12. Sindri Sverrisson (29 October 2016). "Það snýst allt um þetta á heimilinu". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). p. 4. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
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