SCHAFER Avi Koki

Date of Birth: 28 Jan 1998

Age: 23

Gender: Male

Height (m/ft): 2.06/6'9''

Place of birth: SUITA

Birth Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Basketball	Men JPN Japan	11

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Saitama Super Arena	Men's Preliminary Round Group C #08 JPN Japan 77 ESP Spain 88	Finished
	Saitama Super Arena	Men's Preliminary Round Group C #18 SLO Slovenia 116 JPN Japan 81	Finished
	Saitama Super Arena	Men's Preliminary Round Group C #30 ARG Argentina 97 JPN Japan 77	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location
31	Men	2019	People's Republic of China

Asian Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
7	Men	2018	Indonesia

World Championship U-19

Rank	Event	Year	Location
10	Men	2017	Cairo, EGY

Playing video games, fishing. (YouTube channel, 05 Nov 2020; lakestars.net, 29 Jan 2020)

Occupation:

Languages spoken:

English, Japanese

Alvark Tokyo [Japan] since 2018

Luka Pavichevic [club]; Julio Lamas [national], ARG

Position style:

Centre, Power forward (go-seahorses.jp, 06 Dec 2020)

2018 for Japan Against Republic of Korea (thedigestweb.com, 18 Mar 2020)

National league:

B.League [JPN] (bleague.jp, 24 Jan 2020)

He began playing basketball seriously in 2014. (sports.yahoo.co.jp, 22 Oct 2019; basketballking.jp, 16 Jun 2018)

A promising footballer in his youth, he switched to basketball after his family moved from Kobe to Tokyo. The football team at his new school was not at the level he was used to, so he decided to join the basketball team because of his physique. (sports.yahoo.co.jp, 22 Oct 2019; basketballking.jp, 16 Jun 2018)

To represent Japan at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (sports.yahoo.co.jp, 22 Oct 2019)

US basketball player LeBron James. (go-seahorses.jp, 06 Dec 2020)

Philosophy:

"You're better than you think you are." (lakestars.net, 29 Jan 2020)

He was named one of Best Five Rookies in the 2019/20 B.League. (bleague.jp, 11 May 2020)

General Interest

General
TIME ABROAD
In 2016 he moved to United States of America to study at Brewster Academy in New Hampshire, OH, United States of America. He also spent time at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta before returning to Japan in 2018 to play in the B.League. "I decided to go to a prep school to play the sport more seriously after I was called up to the U18 Japanese national team and competed in a tournament in Germany. Brewster Academy has a strong basketball team, so I didn't have the chance to play many games, but a lot of college coaches came to watch our training sessions. I received an offer from the Georgia Institute of Technology. There was no scholarship but in terms of studying, it has top-class physics course. It was a quick decision but I didn't get much playing time and it was important for me to have an environment where I could play. And the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo was one of the biggest reasons for me returning to Japan. I think it is a dream for any athlete to be part of an Olympics that is held in their country." (thedigestweb.com, 18 Mar 2020, 16 Mar 2020; college-hoops-japan.blogspot.com, 09 Aug 2016)

LOAN MOVE
He spent the 2019/20 season playing on loan for the Shiga Lakestars in the Japanese B.League. He went on loan to the Seahorses Mikawa ahead of the 2020/21 season. (basket-count.com, 21 Aug 2020; akestars.net, 29 Jul 2020)

HERITAGE
He was born to a US father and a Japanese mother in Osaka, Japan. (news.yahoo.co.jp, 21 Sep 2019; basketball.realgm.com, 2019)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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