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Julian Roche

Elite League newcomer AO Near East added to their roster 26-year old Canadian power forward Julian Roche (211cm-116kg-1997, college: Simon Fraser) for season 2024-25. Roche played this summer at Saskatchewan in Canadian CEBL. In 9 games just recently he recorded only 2.8ppg and 4.7rpg. The last season he played at Uni Baskets in German ProA where in 27 games he averaged 6.1ppg and 4.7rpg.
He has played also professionally in Switzerland (Swiss Central).
Roche graduated from Simon Fraser University in 2022 and it will be his third season as a professional player. He played also for Santa Clara University for 2 years.

AO Near East roster for 2024-25:

Guards:
Themis Koupidis
Petros Karabas
Ilias Anestis
Anastasis Koutsonikolas
Antonis Sigalas
Nikolaos Trihas

Forwards:
Ioannis Ziros
Lykourgos Vasilantonakis
Dimos Dimitriou

Centers:
Charis Liounis
Julian Roche
Georgios Kalianiotis

Coach: Dimitris Papadopoulos

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