Mark Nash (basketball)

Mark Nash (born 25 February 1976) is an Australian basketball player. The junior club that he played for was Kingborough District, in Tasmania. A well-known player in the Australian Basketball Association born in Launceston, Australia, he played for the Australia Under-20 team in 1995 at the Junior World Championships. He continued to play well in the Association, and was given a chance to play in the All-ABA team that year, and then won the ABA Youth Player of the Year in 1996. He was recruited by the Hobart Devils at the start on the 1996 season.

Mark Nash
Personal information
Born (1976-02-25) 25 February 1976
Launceston, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Listed height198 cm (6 ft 6 in)
Listed weight99 kg (218 lb)
Career information
Playing career1994–2012
PositionPower forward
Career history
1994–1996Hobart Devils
1998–2000Brisbane Bullets
2000–2007Adelaide 36ers
1994; 1997; 2005; 2007–2012Hobart Chargers
Career highlights and awards
  • All-ABA Game (1996)
  • ABA Youth Player of the Year (1997)
  • NBL Champion (2002)

He then had a year back in the ABA, before being signed for the Brisbane Bullets in 1998. He was then signed by the Adelaide 36ers. He competed for the Australian Boomers at the East Asian and Goodwill Games in 2001.[1] He won an NBL Championship with the Adelaide 36ers in the 2002 season. After playing his 300th NBL game in 2006[2] he moved back home to Tasmania in 2007 to play for the Hobart Chargers before retiring after the 2009 season.[3]

References
  1. 2001 Goodwill Games competitors Archived 22 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Nagy, Boti (7 December 2006) Seven-year Sydney drought; The Advertiser
  3. "Brandon Polk Joins Chargers". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2010.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.