Samara inks Alexandr Semenyuk

BC Samara (Superleague 1) agreed terms with 27-year old Belarusian international forward Alexandr Semenyuk (207cm-120kg) for upcoming 2021-22 season. He will still stay in Russia where he played last season at Vostok-65 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. In 27 Superleague 1 games in Russia he had 13.4ppg and 6.2rpg. Semenyuk helped them to make it to the cup final. 2020-21 was a great season as he was named to Eurobasket.com All-Russian Superleague 1 Honorable Mention.
The previous (19-20) season he played at Ural Ekaterinburg. In 13 Superleague 1 games he recorded 11.3ppg and 5.5rpg. Good season as he was named League Player of the Week.
He has been also a member of Belarusian international program for some years. Semenyuk has regularly played for Belarusian senior team since 2014 and previously for U20 National Team between 2010 and 2012.
He also represented Belarus at the European Championships 2021 Pre-Qualifiers two years ago. His stats at that event were 7 games: 6.4ppg, 4.1rpg, FGP: 51.4%, 3PT: 50.0%, FT: 46.2%.
Semenyuk has played also professionally for other Belarusian teams like Vitalyur RGUOR, Grodno and Tsmoki-Minsk.
The list of the past achievements is quite long as among others Semenyuk was voted Eurobasket.com All-Belarusian League Newcomer of the Year back in 2013.