Park Hyunjoon (Korean: 박현준; born September 14, 1987, in Seoul, South Korea) is a South Korean lacrosse player who serves as a midfielder for the Korea National Lacrosse team. He has captained both South Korea's U-19 and Men's National Lacrosse Teams.
Born | Seoul, South Korea | September 14, 1987
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Nationality | South Korea |
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
Weight | 190 pounds (86 kg) |
Shoots | Right |
Position | Midfielder |
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Park has also coached Korea's U-19 National Lacrosse Team and is serving as the delegate of South Korea to World Lacrosse, formerly known as the Federation of International Lacrosse.
International career
editPark began his international lacrosse career in 2008 at the U-19 World Championship as an Attackman and as the captain of the U-19 Korea National Lacrosse Team. In 2014, he captained the Men's Korea National Team at the 2014 World Lacrosse Championship in Denver, USA and in the following international competitions until the year 2017. In 2019, Team Korea earned the Bronze Medal at the APLU Asia Pacific Lacrosse Championship in Gyeongju, South Korea behind Japan and Australia.
International competitions
edit- 2008 Men's U-19 World Lacrosse Championship Coquitlam, Canada
- 2009 Asia Pacific Lacrosse Championship Suwon, Korea
- 2014 World Lacrosse Championship Denver, USA
- 2015 Asia-Pacific Lacrosse Championship Bangkok, Thailand
- 2017 Asia-Pacific Lacrosse Championship Jeju, South Korea
- 2018 World Lacrosse Championship Netanya, Israel
- 2019 Asia Pacific Lacrosse Championship Gyeongju, South Korea
Coaching career
editIn 2016, Park led the South Korea national under-19 national lacrosse team at the World Lacrosse U-19 World Lacrosse Championship in Coquitlam, Canada as an assistant coach and was awarded the 2016 World Lacrosse Spirit of Lacrosse Award.
References
edit- "Final Standings, Award Winners and Results". World Lacrosse.
Graham Lester Spirit of Lacrosse Award
- "World Games: Orange Division Rosters, Schedules and TV". Inside Lacrosse.
- "World Games: Asia-Pacific Championship Preview". Inside Lacrosse.
- "World Cup 2018 Stats". pointbench.
- "APLU General Meeting" (PDF). asiapacificlacrosse.
- "한 여름날의 '핫(Hot)'한 스틱 전쟁, 2015 한국 라크로스 여름리그BOOM". blog.naver.com. 한국대학스포츠협의회 공식 블로그.
- "라크로스, 2018 이스라엘 세계라크로스선수권서 독일-프랑스와 맞대결". Haps Magazine Korea.
- "韓 라크로스, 이스라엘 세계선수권 출격". Nocutnews.
- "라크로스 함께할 사람 찾아요". Korea Daily.
- "라크로스 남녀 국가대표팀, 2019 아시아 환태평양선수권 참가". Sportalkorea.
- "라크로스 남녀 국가대표팀, 2019 아시아 환태평양선수권 참가". Osen.
- "라크로스, 2018 이스라엘 세계라크로스선수권서 독일-프랑스와 맞대결". Naver.
- "'2연패' 韓 라크로스, 30위 진입 위해 멕시코와 '혈전' 준비". Naver.
- "韓 라크로스, 멕시코 9-6 완파... 세계 27위 도전". Naver.