Styrmir Snær Þrastarson | |
Birth Date: | 2 August 2001 |
Birth Place: | Reykjavík, Iceland |
Height Cm: | 201 |
Weight Kg: | 90.5 |
Position: | Shooting guard / small forward |
League: | BNXT League |
Team: | Belfius Mons-Hainaut |
Number: | 34 |
College: | Davidson (2021–2022) |
Draft Year: | 2023 |
Career Start: | 2016 |
Years1: | 2016–2021 |
Team1: | Þór Þorlákshöfn |
Years2: | 2019–2020 |
Team2: | → Hamar |
Years3: | 2022–2023 |
Team3: | Þór Þorlákshöfn |
Years4: | 2023–present |
Team4: | Belfius Mons-Hainaut |
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Styrmir Snær Þrastarson (anglicised to Snaer Thrastarson; born 2 August 2001) is an Icelandic basketball player for Belfius Mons-Hainaut of the BNXT League. He plays for Icelandic national team. In 2021 he won the Icelandic championship with Þór Þorlákshöfn.
Styrmir started his senior team career with Þór Þorlákshöfn during the 2016–2017 season and won the Icelandic Super Cup in both 2016 and 2017. During the 2019–20 season, he was loaned to 1. deild karla club Hamar where he went on to average 10.2 points and 5.3 rebounds in 9 games.
Styrmir had his break out season for Þór in 2020–2021[1] [2] where he was routinely assigned to guard the opponent's best player.[3] On 5 March 2021, he scored a career high 32 points in a victory against Haukar.[4] In 21 regular season games, he averaged 14.6 points, six rebounds and 3.3 assists per game. In the first round of the playoffs, Styrmir averaged 15.8 points, seven rebounds and five assists in Þorlákshöfn's 3–1 series win against Þór Akureyri. In the quarterfinals, he led Þór to a 3–2 series win against Stjarnan, averaging 17.4 points, 6.6 rebounds and 2.8 assists. He had three 20-plus points games in the series, including a 21-point performance in the fifth and deciding game.[5] [6] On 25 June 2021 he helped Þór win the national championship for the first time after it beat Keflavík 3–1 in the Úrvalsdeild finals.[7] [8] Following the season, he was named the Úrvalsdeild Young Player of the Year and to the Úrvalsdeild Domestic All-First Team.[9]
In July 2021, Styrmir joined Davidson College.[10] He played sparingly during his freshman season, appearing in 13 games, averaging 1.1 points in 3.3 minutes per game.
In October 2022, Styrmir left Davidson and rejoined Þór Þorlákshöfn.[11] [12]
In June 2023, he signed with Belfius Mons-Hainaut of the BNXT League.[13]
After playing for Iceland's junior national teams,[3] Styrmir was selected to the Icelandic senior national team for the first time in February 2021.[14]
|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2021–22| style="text-align:left;"| Davidson| 13 || 0 || 3.3 || .400 || .333 || .500 || .7 || .3 || .0 || .1 || 1.1