The basketball team of Tecnun has signed this year a partnership agreement with the Askatuak club, and the captain of the School team, Gorka Etxezarreta, tells the web how the current season is presented.  

What are the advantages of the partnership agreement signed with Askatuak?

Well, in general terms, to be able to have an entity behind us that will be in charge of providing us with a coach, a field delegate, a physiotherapist for when the players are injured, etc. They will also help us to manage the topic of the records, and all this subject of things that these last years we have had to take care of ourselves. So it is a great advantage. In addition, being linked to a club with lower categories, we can fill in training and games with people from these teams when we have people injured or who can not come.

What does the new basketball season look like?

Well, with great enthusiasm and motivation to improve the results of recent seasons. We have been several months without competing and we are looking forward to start this new season, in which we will have new faces both in sports, ---with the new coach and the new members of the team that have entered the university this year-, and in the non-sporting, -with the agreement that we have reached with the Askatuak club-.

What is the team's challenge for the current campaign?

Mainly to improve the sporting results obtained in recent seasons, trying to be first in the league and thus achieving direct access to EBA league. The last two seasons we got a promotion to EBA in the Final Four, and we lost the final of the Final Four last year, so in sports that is the challenge that we set ourselves. Off the court we are a very cohesive group with a very good atmosphere, so we hope to continue in this line and integrate new teammates in this dynamic, and that this is noticed on the court.

At home games do you feel the support of the crowd?

So we encourage you all to come and cheer us on Saturday afternoons!

Are you all students at the school?

The team is made up of students from the different Degrees, people who are doing their doctorate at the university, people who have finished their master's degree and have started working, and then some colleagues from the UPV who complement the team. 

On staff, what does it mean to you to be the team captain?

Well, an extra motivation without a doubt. I am a little bit the link between the university and the basketball team as well, and therefore, I feel very happy to have this role.