Joey Vickery

Joey David Vickery (born 9 June 1967) is a Canadian professional basketball player. He plays for the Austrian basketball club Traiskirchen Arkadia Lions.

Born in Winnipeg, Canada, he graduated Westwood Collegiate in 1985, and played for Brandon University Bobcats for three seasons.^[1] After a successful debut where Brandon University won the Canadian National Championship in 1989 and Joey was named Jack Donahue MVP award winner. Vickery was named a 1st team All-Canadian at Brandon University in 1990 and 1991. Vickery moved to Europe and played for the now defunct Olimpas Plungė of Lithuania. He averaged 23.4 points and 3.3 rebounds per game. He played for various clubs in Spain, Huelva, Algeciras and Melilla and then moved to the Austrian club Mattersburg 49ers. After yet another successful season, he moved to Sweden's Jamtland Basket KFUM. In 2005, he returned to Austria and signed contracts with his previous teams.

Clubs

The Rogues, SIT, Scobey, MT 1995
Olimpas Plungė (1995–1996)
Ciudad de Huelva, Spain (1996–1997)
Poissy Chatou Basket (1997–2000)
Algeciras, Spain (2000–2001)
Mattersburg 49ers (2001–2002)
Ciudad de Huelva, Spain (2002–2003)
Jamtland Basket KFUM (2003–2004)
Melilla, Spain (2004–2005)
Mattersburg 49ers (2005–2006)
Arkadia Traiskirchen Lions (2005–2008)
Mattersburg Rocks, Austria (2008–present)

Canada national basketball team

Joey Vickery was a member of the Canada national men's basketball team in the 1995 Tournament of the Americas and the 1997 Tournament of the Americas. He also appeared internationally in the 1994 ( Toronto) and 1998 ( Athens) FIBA World Championship. Joey played on two world university teams for Canada, first at the 1989 Duisburg, Germany games and in 1991 at the Sheffield, England games. Canada finished 4th at the 1989 Duisburg games and won a Silver medal at the games in Sheffield, England. In 1994, Vickery was named MVP of the Berlin Cup after making 17/20 three point shots. Participating teams were Canada, Russia, Germany and Italy.

Canada squad – 1994 FIBA World Championship – 7th place

4 McKay 5 Fox 6 Wiltjer 7 Nash 8 Jackson 9 McMahon 10 Smrek 11 Hallas 12 Vickery 13 Keane 14 Walton 15 Njoku Coach: Shields

Canada squad – 1998 FIBA World Championship – 12th place

4 Vickery 5 Hamilton 6 Daniels 7 Francis 8 Njoku 9 Barrett 10 Hallas 11 MacCulloch 12 Keane 13 Guarasci 14 Meeks 15 Newton Coach: Konchalski

References

↑ "Joey Vickery". Basketball Manitoba. 29 November 1999. Retrieved 19 December 2010.

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