Karditsa announced 18-year-old Konstantinos Handzis

The Voiotos guard is yet another addition to the team’s development plan for the integration of young athletes with development prospects.

Konstantinos is 18 years old (born on July 20, 2006), he is 1.93m tall. and started his career from the academies of Proteas Schimatarios. At Protea, he coached all age groups up to the men’s team in A’ESKASE, with whom, last May, he reached the semi-finals of the promotion play-offs to National League 2. In the regular season, he was the second top scorer with 17 points m.o. per match and 376 in total in 22 matches.

With the Association of Schimatarios, he also scored several individual and team awards at the level of Children and Teenagers. In the 2021-22 season, he won the ESKASE Children’s championship, participating in the Final Phase of the Panhellenic Children’s championship in Karditsa, taking 7th place. He finished the tournament with 20.2 points, 15.8 rebounds, 5.8 assists and 3 steals per game. per game, stats that ranked him 2nd in scoring, rebounding, passing, 1st in steals and 3rd in steals in the entire tournament.

At the same time, he won the ESKASE Junior Championship in the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons, once again taking the lead in the top statistical categories.

The young athlete also participated with the Dubai Falcons in the FIBA ​​Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Championship last season, while he competed in the last two Rising Stars tournaments, in Patras in the 2022-23 season where he reached the semifinals of the Final Phase and in 1st round of the competition in Thessaloniki, last season.

Also, Konstantinos was a member of the National Youth Team at the recent U18 Pan European Championship in Finland, placing 10th with 1.2 ppg. per match. With the Greek colors he was a member of the National U17 team in the Pan-European 3?3 championship held in 2023 in Crete, finishing 7th.