Guðrún Ósk Ámundadóttir

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Guðrún Ósk Ámundadóttir

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Guðrún Ósk Ámundadóttir
Personal information
Born	(1987-05-07) 7 May 1987 (age 37)
Nationality	Icelandic
Listed height	179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Career information
Playing career	2003–2019
Position	Guard
Coaching career	2019–2021
Career history
As player:
2003–2007	Haukar
2007–2009	KR
2009–2015	Haukar
2015–2019	Skallagrímur
As coach:
2018–2019	Skallagrímur (assistant)
2019–2021	Skallagrímur

Career highlights and awards
As player: 2× Icelandic champion (2006, 2007) 5× Icelandic Cup (2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2014) 3× Icelandic Company Cup (2005, 2006, 2011) Icelandic Super Cup (2006) 2× D1 winner (2004, 2016) As coach: Icelandic Cup (2020) Icelandic Super Cup (2020)

Career coaching record
Úrvalsdeild kvenna	23–23 (.500)

Guðrún Ósk Ámundadóttir (born 7 May 1987) is an Icelandic basketball basketball coach and player and a former member of the Icelandic national basketball team. As a player, she won the national championship twice and the Icelandic Cup five times.^[1]

Club career

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After coming up through the junior programs of Skallagrímur,^[2] Guðrún started her senior team career with Haukar in 2003 and helped the team win two national championships and five Icelandic Cups. She played for KR from 2007 to 2009, winning the Icelandic Cup during her later season with the team.^[3]

She returned to her hometown team of Skallagrímur in 2015.^[4] In her first game, she posted a triple-double with 10 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists.^[5] In 2017 she helped Skallagrímur to the Cup finals^[1] where it eventually lost to Valur. She retired from playing after being hired as the head coach of Skallagrímur in September 2019.

Titles

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Icelandic champion (2): 2006, 2007
Icelandic Cup (5): 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2014
Icelandic Company Cup (3): 2005, 2006, 2011
Icelandic Super Cup: 2006
1. deild kvenna (2) : 2004, 2016

National team career

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Guðrún played in nine games for the Icelandic national basketball team from 2008 to 2009.^[6]

Coaching career

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After serving as an assistant coach to Biljana Stanković for the 2018–19 season, she was hired as the head coach of Skallagrímur in September 2019.^[7] In February 2020, she guided Skallagrímur to its first major title since 1964 when the team defeated KR in the Icelandic Cup finals.^[8] In the Úrvalsdeild, the team posted á 15–10 record before the rest of the season was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic in Iceland.^[9]

In May 2020, she signed a contract extension for the 2020–21 season.^[10] On 20 September 2020, she guided Skallagrímur to its first victory in the Icelandic Super Cup by defeating Valur 74–68.^[11] She resigned from her post as head coach on 1 July 2021.^[12]