Caspar Wit (56) is the new coach of the LGITS.nl Martini Sparks basketball players. He succeeds Robert Tinga, who threw in the towel on December 4 with the club from the Women’s Basketball League.
After Tinga’s departure, Martini Sparks played two more games, with assistant Damian Boomstra taking on coaching, along with injured player Daniëlle Pruijs.
White will stay on as head coach for at least the next six months, but intends to make a long-term commitment afterwards. ,,I’m looking forward to it, but I’m not going to talk about winning or losing first. I want the players to feel free to play basketball. Then the results will come naturally.”
White, who works in his own IT company, is no stranger to the basketball world. He started as a youth player at Exercitia’73 in Eelde. He then played basketball for a while in the United States at Bay City Michigan High School. Back in the Netherlands, Wit played premier league basketball for ten years at Donar, Red Giants in Meppel, Orca’s Urk and The Hammers in Zwolle.
After his active career, White did little in basketball for a long time. In recent years he has coached the first women’s team of Exercitia’73, in which his daughters play. Coming Saturday, White will be on the bench at Martini Sparks for the first time. The Harense team will take on Sportiff Grasshoppers from Katwijk in a home game at 7 p.m. in sports hall Scharlakenhof.