Berend Weijs (born 15 December 1988) is a Dutch
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...
player who last played for
Apollo Amsterdam. Standing at , he plays as
center and played college basketball for two seasons for
Harcum College and two seasons for
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It borders the states of Virginia to its south, West Virginia to its west, Pennsylvania to its north, and Delaware to its east ...
. Since then, he has been active as a professional player in the Netherlands.
Professional career
After his collegiate time, he spent two seasons 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 Since 2021, the league has been replaced by the Belgian-Dutch BNXT Le ...
with
Apollo Amsterdam. Following, he played three seasons in the
Dutch second division for the
Landslake Lions. For the 2017–18 season, Weijs returned to Apollo Amsterdam. He averaged 11.0 points and 6.2 rebounds per game on the season and re-signed with the club on July 19, 2018. The 2019–20 season was ended early in March because of the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...
. The same month, Weijs announced his retirement. He returned to Apollo in January 2021. Weijs left Apollo after the 2021–22 season.
References
External links
DBL Profile(in Dutch)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Weijs, Berend
1988 births
Living people
Apollo Amsterdam players
Basketball players from Amsterdam
Centers (basketball)
Dutch Basketball League players
Dutch expatriate basketball people in the United States
Dutch men's basketball players
Harcum College alumni
Junior college men's basketball players in the United States
Maryland Terrapins men's basketball players
Power forwards
Sportspeople from Zaanstad
Basketball players from North Holland