Jacob Luke Doerksen (born October 16, 1987) is a Canadian former professional basketball player.

Career

A native of

Abbotsford, British Columbia Abbotsford is a city located in British Columbia, adjacent to the Canada–United States border, Greater Vancouver and the Fraser River. With an estimated population of 153,524 people it is the largest municipality in the province outside metrop ...

, Doerksen played basketball and football at Rick Hansen Secondary School, he was named the British Columbia High School Male Athlete of the Year in 2005. In 2005, the forward enrolled at

University of Victoria The University of Victoria (UVic or Victoria) is a public research university located in the municipalities of Oak Bay and Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. The university traces its roots to Victoria College, the first post-secondary instit ...

and won the Dr. Peter Mullins Trophy as CIS Rookie of the Year in the 2005–06 season after helping the Vikes claim a CIS National Championship silver medal. In his second year at Victoria, Doerksen averaged a team-high 14 points a game, while grabbing just under five rebounds per contest. After sitting out the 2007–08 season, Doerksen transferred to

Trinity Western University Trinity Western University (TWU) is a Private university, private Christian liberal arts university with campuses in both Langley, British Columbia (district municipality), Langley and Richmond, British Columbia, Richmond, British Columbia. The sch ...

in 2008. He would later be named "arguably the greatest basketball player to ever don a Spartans uniform". He scored a total of 1852 points in his three years at Trinity Western putting him second on the TWU all-time list when he graduated in 2011. His 781 rebounds were also second-most all time in TWU history. He earned several awards during his time at Trinity Western, including the Mike Moser Memorial Trophy as the outstanding player of the 2008–09 CIS season, First-Team All-Canada accolades in 2009 and 2011 as well as Canada West Player of the Year honours in 2009. In his first year as a professional basketball player, he tallied 21.7 points, 7.7 rebounds and two steals a game in 33 contests with the UBC Hannover Tigers of the German 2. Bundesliga ProB league, earning 2012 Eurobasket.com All-German 2.Bundesliga Pro B Center of the Year honours. Prior to the 2012–13 season, he signed with

SC Rasta Vechta Sports Club Rasta Vechta is a German basketball club based in Vechta, Lower Saxony. The club plays in the ProA, the second tier of professional Basketball in Germany. Founded in 1979, the club spent the majority of its history in the lower-tier ...

of Germany's second-tier 2. Bundesliga ProA. He helped Rasta win the 2013 ProA championship title which ensured promotion to the

Basketball Bundesliga The Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) (English language: ''Federal Basketball League''), for sponsorship reasons named easyCredit BBL, is the highest level league of professional club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season ...

, averaging 13.7 points a game. In the 2013–14 he saw the hardwood in 29 games (28 starts) to average 10.4 points and 4.6 rebounds per contest. Following the 2013–14 season, Doerksen finished his professional basketball career returning to his native Canada.

References

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