Johan Willem van Zegeren (born 7 December 1990) is a Dutch

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player for

CB San Pablo Burgos Club Baloncesto San Pablo Burgos, S.A.D., previously known as Club Baloncesto Miraflores and also known as Hereda San Pablo Burgos by sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball team based in Burgos, Spain and plays in the Coliseum Burgos. ...

of the

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and the

Netherlands national basketball team The Netherlands men's national basketball team ( nl, Het Nederlands nationaal basketbalteam) represents the Netherlands in international basketball matches. The national team is governed by Basketball Nederland. The Dutch have reached the Euro ...

Early career

Born in

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, Zimbabwe, he moved to the Netherlands when he was 8 and grew up in

Hoogeveen Hoogeveen (; nds-nl, 't Ogeveine or '' 't Oveine'') is a municipality and a town in the Dutch province of Drenthe. Population centres Elim, Fluitenberg, Hoogeveen and Noordscheschut, which still have the canals which used to be throughout ...

Drenthe Drenthe () is a province of the Netherlands located in the northeastern part of the country. It is bordered by Overijssel to the south, Friesland to the west, Groningen to the north, and the German state of Lower Saxony to the east. As of Nov ...

. After playing in the youth program of

Rotterdam Basketbal Feyenoord Basketball, for sponsorship reasons known as Zeeuw & Zeeuw Feyenoord Basketball, is a Dutch professional basketball club based in Rotterdam. The team plays in the BNXT League and plays its home games at the Topsportcentrum next to De ...

and made his debut for the first team in the

Dutch Basketball League The Dutch Basketball League (DBL), formerly the Eredivisie, was the highest professional basketball league in the Netherlands, run by the Federatie Eredivisie Basketball (FEB). Since 2021, the league has been replaced by the Belgian-Dutch BNXT Le ...

in the 2009–10 season, playing 9 games. He later moved to Spain to play in the

Canarias Basketball Academy Canarias Basketball Academy is a basketball institute based in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Its senior team currently plays in the Spanish Basketball Federation with their U18 and U16 teams. The junior team usually participates in the Eurolea ...

program.

College career

Van Zegeren played four seasons with

Virginia Tech Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a Public university, public Land-grant college, land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also ...

. As a redshirt junior, he averaged 9.8 points and 5.3 rebounds per game, but was dismissed from the team in January 2015. For his final season of eligibility, van Zegeren transferred to Northwestern. He averaged 3.6 points and 3.0 rebounds per game, suffering a season-ending knee injury in March 2015.

Professional career

He spent the 2018-19 season with

Oviedo CB Oviedo Club Baloncesto, also known as Alimerka Oviedo Baloncesto for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball team based in Oviedo, Asturias, that plays in the Spanish LEB Oro league. History First years Oviedo CB was founded in 2004 to ...

, averaging 7.2 points and 5.2 rebounds per game. On June 15, 2019, van Zegeren signed with

AB Castelló Amics del Bàsquet Castelló, also known as TAU Castelló for sponsorship reasons, is a basketball team based in Castellón de la Plana, Spain. It was founded in 1994 and currently plays in LEB Oro. Real Madrid's coach Pablo Laso started his co ...

. In July 2020, van Zegeren signed with

Real Valladolid Real Valladolid Club de Fútbol, S.A.D., or simply Real Valladolid () or Valladolid, is a professional football club based in Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain that competes in La Liga, the top tier of the Spanish league system. The club colo ...

. On August 9, 2022, he has signed with San Pablo Burgos of the

National team career

In January 2020, he was selected for the

for the first time.

References

External links

Northwestern Wildcats bioVirginia Tech Hokies bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:van Zegeren, Joey 1990 births Living people AB Castelló players CB Miraflores players Dutch Basketball League players Dutch expatriate basketball people in Germany Dutch expatriate basketball people in Spain Dutch expatriate basketball people in the United States Dutch men's basketball players Feyenoord Basketball players Leuven Bears players Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball players Oviedo CB players Virginia Tech Hokies men's basketball players