Valur Snjólfur Ingimundarson (born 20 February 1962) is an Icelandic former basketball player and coach. He played for 20 seasons in the Icelandic Úrvalsdeild[1][2] and is its highest scoring player of all time.[3][4] He won the Icelandic championship eight times during his career and the Icelandic Cup twice.[4]

Valur Ingimundarson

Personal information
Born	(1962-02-20) February 20, 1962 (age 60)
Nationality	Icelandic
Career information
Playing career	1979–2004
Position	Small forward
Number	15
Coaching career	1985–2012
Career history
As player:
1979–1988	Njarðvík
1988–1993	Tindastóll
1993–1995	Njarðvík
1995–1998	BK Odense
1998–2002	Tindastóll
2002–2004	Skallagrímur
As coach:
1985–1986	Njarðvík (Women's)
1986–1988	Njarðvík (Men's)
1988–1990	Tindastóll (Men's)
1991–1993	Tindastóll (Men's)
1993–1995	Njarðvík (Men's)
1994–1995	Njarðvík (Women's)
1995–1998	BK Odense (Men's)
1998–2002	Tindastóll (Men's)
2002–2007	Skallagrímur (Men's)
2008–2009	Njarðvík (Men's)
2010–2011	FSu (Men's)
2011–2012	Ammerud Basket (Men's)
2011–2012	Ammerud Basket (Women's)
Career highlights and awards
As player: 2x Icelandic Basketball Player of the Year (1984, 1988) 3x Úrvalsdeild Domestic Player of the year (1984, 1985, 1988) 5x Úrvalsdeild Domestic All-First team (1988-1992) Icelandic Team of the 20th century 8x Icelandic league champion (1981, 1982, 1984–1987, 1994, 1995) 2× Icelandic Basketball Cup (1987, 1988) Icelandic Company Cup (1999) Úrvalsdeild karla all-time career scoring leader Icelandic All-Star Game MVP (1989) Icelandic All-Star Dunk contest champion (1986) As coach: Úrvalsdeild karla Coach of the year (2000) 3x Icelandic men's league champion (1988, 1994, 1995) 2× Icelandic Men's Basketball Cup (1987, 1988) Icelandic Men's Company Cup (1999) Icelandic men's Division I champion (2004) Danish men's Division II champion (1996)
Career Úrvalsdeild karla playing statistics
Points	7,355 (18.4 ppg)
Games	400
Career coaching record
Úrvalsdeild karla	240–152 (.612)
Úrvalsdeild kvenna	7–27 (.206)
Medals Men's basketball Representing  Iceland Games of the Small States of Europe 1989 Cyprus National Team 1991 Andorra National Team 1993 Malta National Team 1995 Luxembourg National Team FIBA European Championship for Small Countries 1988 Malta National Team 1990 Wales National Team 1994 Ireland National Team

Denmark

Valur was a player-coach for Odense BK from 1995 to 1998 and helped the club achieve promotion up two levels in two seasons and to the Danish top-tier league in 1997.[5][6] He left Odense after the 1997-1998 season and to over as head coach for Tindastóll.[7]

Icelandic national team

Valur is the second most capped player in the national team history, playing 164 games between 1980 and 1995.[8][4]

Team of the 20th century

In 2001 Valur was voted to the Icelandic team of the 20th century in basketball as a player.[9]

Personal life

Valur is the older brother of Sigurður Ingimundarson,[10] the winningest coach in Icelandic basketball history,[11] and the father of basketball player Valur Orri Valsson.[12]

References

External links

• Úrvalsdeild statistics at Icelandic Basketball Association