2008-09: Finished fourth in Canada West scoring with 20.2 points per game…tied with Robbie Sihota for team lead in points (364), despite missing four games with a neck injury midway through the year…led the team in average minutes with 31.4…named a second team Canada West all-star…scored career high 41 points at Alberta Feb. 6, 2009, the largest single-game total for a Dino since 1997 (Navi Sekhon, 53)…twice named Canada West male athlete of the week: Nov. 24, 2008 after sweep of Saskatchewan, and Feb. 7, 2009 after 71-point weekend at Alberta…fell just short of a triple-double in Calgary’s 96-65 semi-final win over Trinity Western with 29 points, nine rebounds, and seven assists…named to all-tournament team at pre-season Graham Construction Shootout in Saskatoon…
2007-08: Joined the Dinos after sitting out a year due to the transfer rule…led Canada West in scoring with 463 points…averaged 21 points per game…named a second team conference all-star…scored 39 points Jan. 11, 2008 vs. Lethbridge, the highest single-game total for the Dinos since 1994…appeared in Sports Illustrated’s feature on the history of the slam dunk…also appeared on Canada AM…
Before UC: Spent two seasons at Eastern Washington Univ. in NCAA Division I…became an internet phenomenon in 2002 when footage of him at a high school dunk competition began to make the rounds online…was number 39 in the Best Damn Sports Show’s Top 50 Dunks of all time…averaged nearly 35 points and 10 rebounds per game at W.R. Meyers High School in Taber, Alta…named Alberta high school player of the year in 2002…
Personal: Parents Simon and Joanne…full name Hendrik Bekkering…has no middle name…fourth sibling to play basketball at UC (brother Ross, sisters Anna and Cory)…younger sister Janelle is a member of the junior national team and plays Division I basketball at Gonzaga…also played football at Eastern Washington as a kicker…was a fifth round (35th overall) draft pick of the Calgary Stampeders in the 2007 CFL draft…attended Stamps’ training camp in 2007…works with Catholic Family Services mentoring and working with people with disabilities…studying history in the Faculty of Social Sciences…
