Toni Rocak (born 22 April 1999) is a Swiss

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player.

Personal and early life

Rocak's family has

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roots. Toni and his brother Niko owe their heights to their father Ante, a former European

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champion who became an owner of a fitness company and a basketball sponsor.BASKETBALL: Grosse Jungs mit grossen Zielen
Daniel Schriber (

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), 14 March 2017. Accessed 15 October 2021. The family moved from

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, Switzerland to

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for professional reasons. Here the brothers attended the International School of Zug and Luzern (ISZL) where they played basketball for the school team. The website swisshopes.ch listed Toni as the country's second best basketball prospect for players born in 1999. In March 2017, the Swiss newspaper

labelled Toni Rocak and his brother Niko as being "among the most talented basketball players of their year." Rocak speaks German, English, French and Croatian. He stated that in addition to athletic development, it is also important to him to achieve something academically.

Club career

In 2017 he had short assignment with Swiss Central Basket of the

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College career

Rocak spent a high school year in the US before he joined his college team.

National team

Alongside his brother, he played for Switzerland's U16 and U18 national teams. He later became a member of the Swiss national basketball team.

References

External links

UC San Diego Tritons bioToni Rocak
at Eurobasket.com
FIBA profile

Toni Rocak
at RealGM.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Rocak, Toni 1999 births Living people Forwards (basketball) People from Zug Sportspeople from the canton of Zug Regis Rangers men's basketball players Sportspeople from Geneva Swiss expatriate sportspeople in the United States Swiss men's basketball players Swiss people of Croatian descent UC San Diego Tritons men's basketball players