Toni Rocak

Toni Rocak
No. 11 – UC San Diego Tritons
Position	Forward
League	Big West Conference
Personal information
Born	22 April 1999
Nationality	Swiss
Listed height	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)
Career information
College	Regis (2018–2020); UC San Diego (2020–present)
Career history
2016–2017	Swiss Central Basket

Toni Rocak (born 22 April 1999) is a Swiss basketball player.

Personal and early life

Rocak's family has Croatian roots. Toni and his brother Niko owe their heights to their father Ante, a former European karate champion who became an owner of a fitness company and a basketball sponsor.[1] The family moved from Geneva, Switzerland to Zug for professional reasons. Here the brothers attended the International School of Zug and Luzern (ISZL) where they played basketball for the school team.[1]

The website swisshopes.ch listed Toni as the country's second best basketball prospect for players born in 1999.[1]

In March 2017, the Swiss newspaper Luzerner Zeitung labelled Toni Rocak and his brother Niko as being "among the most talented basketball players of their year."[1]

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.[1]

Club career

In 2017 he had short assignment with Swiss Central Basket of the Swiss Basketball League.[1]

College career

Rocak spent a high school year in the US before he joined his college team.[1]

National team

Alongside his brother, he played for Switzerland's U16 and U18 national teams.[1]

He later became a member of the Swiss national basketball team.[2]

References

BASKETBALL: Grosse Jungs mit grossen Zielen Daniel Schriber (Luzerner Zeitung), 14 March 2017. Accessed 15 October 2021.(in German)
Kevin Reynolds (5 July 2021). "As college athletes benefit from NIL, international counterparts are left out". The San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved 15 October 2021.

External links

UC San Diego Tritons bio
Toni Rocak at Eurobasket.com
FIBA profile
Toni Rocak at RealGM.com

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[Schriber-1] BASKETBALL: Grosse Jungs mit grossen Zielen Daniel Schriber (Luzerner Zeitung), 14 March 2017. Accessed 15 October 2021.(in German)

[2] Kevin Reynolds (5 July 2021). "As college athletes benefit from NIL, international counterparts are left out". The San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved 15 October 2021.