The center helped the club to the Polish championship last season
Trefl Sopot re-signs Belgian big man Andy Van Vliet
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Trefl Sopot announced on Saturday that it has re-signed center Andy Van Vliet for the 2024-25 season. Van Vliet (2.13 meters, 29 years old) averaged 11.1 points per game on 57.5% two-point shooting and 5.2 rebounds in 45 Polish League games last season to help Trefl win the Polish League crown.
Van Vliet began his career with the Antwerp Giants in his native Belgium before heading to the United States where he played three seasons of college basketball at the University of Wisconsin and another at the College of William & Mary. At Wisconsin, he was a teammate of Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul’s Nigel Hayes-Davis, AS Monaco’s Vitto Brown and Valencia Basket’s Ethan Happ. Van Vliet began his professional career in 2020 in Lithuania with Siauliai and then spent the next two seasons in Israel with Bnei Herzliya before coming to Sopot. He helped Herzliya win the 2022 Israeli Cup. This season will be his first in the EuroCup.
“I am very happy to be coming back to Sopot! After winning the championship, I feel a strong bond with the club and fans. I believe that we will be able to defend the title, although I know that the other teams in Poland have strengthened and will want to take it away from us. The competition in the league and EuroCup will be a great challenge that I can't wait for.”