Big basketball surprise
The' United Service-Aranui basketball. club has a big surprise in store for its opponents this season. The big surprise will be a 7ft college basketball player who has. been brought out from Hawaii! Paul Vos will, arrive in Christchurch tomorrow, and will start '•playing' for the club’s, senior men’s side On
Wednesday.' The .club’s sponsor, Mr Bill Menzies, said that Vos had been brought out from Brigham Young ■ University, a Mormon college, to ■'lay and coach within the club until' the: end of the New Zealand “season, when he would return to Hawaii. Mr Menzies emphasised that the. move was not a “oncer,” and that as long as
Vos was fit and v/illing to return he would be brought to New Zealand each winter in the northern hemisphere’s off-season. He said that he felt the Aranui team needed Vos to fill gaps that would be left in it when at leasts two or three members Were overseas with. the New I .. Zealand team. ■ ■■''';
The BY.U. college’basketball team plays at the Division II level of American collegiate sports arid Vos has just .'completed-his freshman .(first), year there. He.is. in his early twenties, and is a Dutchman by-birth. ■ It 'is believed he will be the tallest player to. have played in a New Zealand club.
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Press, 6 April 1981, Page 30
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