Mark Nash (basketball)

Mark Nash
Personal information
Born (1976-02-25) 25 February 1976
Launceston, Australia
Nationality Australian
Listed height 197 cm (6 ft 6 in)
Listed weight 90 kg (198 lb)
Career information
Playing career 1994–2012
Position Power forward
Career history
1994–1996 Hobart Devils
1998–2000 Brisbane Bullets
2000–2009 Adelaide 36ers
2009–2012 Hobart Chargers
Career highlights and awards
  • All-ABA Game (1996)
  • ABA Youth Player of the Year (1997)
  • NBL Champion (2002)

Mark Nash (born 25 February 1976) is an Australian basketball player. The junior club that he played for was Kingsborough District, in Tasmania. A well-known player in the Australian Basketball Association born in Launceston, Australia, he played for the Australia Under-19 team in 1995 at the Junior World Championships. He continued to play well in the Association, and was given a chance to play in the All-ABA team that year, and then won the ABA Youth Player of the Year in 1996. He was recruited by the Hobart Devils at the start on the 1996 season.

He then had a year back in the ABA, before being signed for the Brisbane Bullets in 1998. He was then traded to the Adelaide 36ers. He competed for the Australian Boomers at the East Asian and Goodwill Games in 2001.[1] He won an NBL premiership with the Adelaide 36ers in the 2002 season. After playing his 300th NBL game in 2006[2] he moved back home to Tasmania in 2007 to play for the Hobart Chargers before retiring after the 2009 season.[3]

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