Roeland Pieter Schaftenaar (born 29 July 1988) is a Dutch professional

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

player for

ZZ Leiden ZZ Leiden Basketball, also known as Zorg en Zekerheid Leiden, is a basketball club based in Leiden, Netherlands. The club plays in the BNXT League, the domestic first tier league. Their home games are played at Vijf Meihal, which has 2,000 seats. ...

of the BNXT League. He is also a member of 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 ...

. Standing at , he plays as

power forward The power forward (PF), also known as the four, is one of the five traditional positions in a regulation basketball game. Traditionally, power forwards have played a role similar to centers. When on offense, they typically play with their ba ...

. His brother Olaf Schaftenaar also plays professional basketball.

Early life

Schaftenaar was born in

Utrecht Utrecht ( , , ) is the fourth-largest city and a municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, in the very centre of mainland Net ...

College career

Scaftenaar played

NCAA Division I NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally. D-I schools include the major collegiate athletic ...

college basketball In United States colleges, top-tier basketball is governed by collegiate athletic bodies including National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), the United States Collegiate Athleti ...

Oregon State Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant, research university in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It has the 10th largest engineering col ...

, from 2006 to 2010.

Professional career

Schaftenaar started his pro career by playing four years in the

LEB Oro LEB or Leb may refer to: * Lausanne–Echallens–Bercher railway, Switzerland * Lebanon, UNDP country code * Lebanon Municipal Airport (New Hampshire) (FAA identifier) * Lexham English Bible * Life expectancy at birth * Liga Española de Balonce ...

league, the Spanish second division. On October 11, 2014, he signed with the

Greek Basket League The Greek Basket League (GBL), often also referred to as the Greek A1 Basketball League, or Greek Basketball Championship (originally called Panhellenic Basketball Championship), and also known as the Stoiximan Basket League for sponsorship reaso ...

club

Rethymno Rethymno ( el, Ρέθυμνο, , also ''Rethimno'', ''Rethymnon'', ''Réthymnon'', and ''Rhíthymnos'') is a city in Greece on the island of Crete. It is the capital of Rethymno regional unit, and has a population of more than 30,000 inhabitants ...

. On January 24, 2015, he extended his contract with the club for another two years. After temporarily leaving the team after the first 4 games of the 2016–17 season, he returned to Rethymno on January 23, 2017, in order to replace Brandon Edwards. On September 12, 2017, he joined Faros Larissas of the

. On 14 September 2021, Schaftenaar signed with Básquet Coruña, staying in the Spanish Leb Oro. On 11 September 2022, Schaftenaar signed a one-year contract for

, his first professional team in his native Netherlands.

National team career

Schaftenaar is a member of the senior

Dutch 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 Eur ...

. With the senior Dutch team, he played at the

EuroBasket 2015 EuroBasket 2015 was the 39th edition of the EuroBasket championship that was organized by FIBA Europe. It was co-hosted by Croatia, France, Germany, and Latvia, making it the first EuroBasket held in more than one country. It started on 5 S ...

tournament as a starter.

Personal life

Schaftenaar is the older brother of fellow

alum, and professional basketball player, Olaf Schaftenaar.

Statistics

Source
FIBA.com
/small>

References

External links

LEB Oro profileProfile at draftexpress.comProfile at eurobasket.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schaftenaar, Roeland 1988 births Living people CB Breogán players Centers (basketball) Dutch Basketball League players Dutch expatriate basketball people in the United States Dutch men's basketball players Gymnastikos S. Larissas B.C. players Ionikos Nikaias B.C. players Oregon State Beavers men's basketball players Power forwards (basketball) Rethymno B.C. players Sportspeople from Utrecht (city) UB La Palma players ZZ Leiden players