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Artūrs Visockis-Rubenis (born August 11, 1985) is a Latvian professional basketball coach, who is currently a head coach for BK Ogre, and an assistant for Jānis Gailītis in Latvian National Team.

PositionHead coach
Born (1985-08-11) August 11, 1985 (age 41)
2015–2017Latvia (women) (assistant)
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Artūrs Visockis-Rubenis
BK Ogre
PositionHead coach
Personal information
Born (1985-08-11) August 11, 1985 (age 41)
Career history
Coaching
2011–2016Latvijas Universitāte
2015–2017Latvia (women) (assistant)
2016Latvia U16
2016–2019BK Ogre
2017–2019Latvia (assistant)
2018Latvia U18
2019Latvia U19
2019–2020BK Ventspils
2020–2026BK Liepāja
2021–presentLatvia (assistant)
2026-presentBK Ogre
Career highlights
As head coach:
  • Latvian Coach of the Year (2018)
Medals
Men's basketball
Representing  Latvia
FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship
Silver medal – second place2018 LatviaNational Team
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Career

From 2011 till 2016 he worked as a head coach of Latvijas Universitāte, reaching Latvian League semi-finals in his debut season.[1] From 2016 till 2019 he worked as head coach for BK Ogre, guiding them to first Latvian league medals in club's history. In summer of 2019 Visockis-Rubenis signed with 10-time Latvian champions BK Ventspils and debuted in FIBA Europe Cup level helping the team to reach the quarterfinals.[2] In summer of 2020 Visockis-Rubenis became a head coach for BK Liepāja, signing a multi-year contract.

National teams

In 2015 he was named Latvian U16 team head coach [3] and led the team in 2016 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship.

From 2015 Visockis-Rubenis is also an assistant coach of Latvia women's national basketball team,[4] participating in EuroBasket Women 2017 (6th place) and 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup. In 2017, Visockis-Rubenis was also appointed as an assistant for Men's National Team,[5] participating in EuroBasket 2017 (5th place) and 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification.

In 2018 Visockis-Rubenis was named Latvian U18 head coach and led his team to historical 2018 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship silver - it was the first time Latvian U18 team went to the final. Team qualified for 2019 FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup. Later that year federation named Visockis-Rubenis also the head coach of U19 National Team for World Cup.[6]

Since 2017, Visockis-Rubenis has been assistant in Latvia National Team for Ainars Bagatskis, Arnis Vecvagars, Luca Banchi, Sito Alonso and Jānis Gailītis. He was part of the coaching stuff at the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup where Latvia finished at 5th place.

Honors and awards

Club career

Individual

  • Latvian Coach of the Year: (2018)[7]

National team

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