Basketball appeared in Plunge in 1964. The first group of basketball
players didn’t achieve any great victories. But still they were the
foundators of basketball in our town. The leaders of the team in that time
were Salys, Vosylius, Kiudulas and Leliūga. Salys had a good opportunity to
join the national basketball team.
The next generation of players had much more success. They had won the
second place of the LKL championship for several times. From the very
beginning their trainer was G.Glikmanas ant the second trainer was
Augenijus Jurgutis. The most distinguished players at that time were
Midaugas Pranskevičius, Augenijus Vaškys, Dainius Miliūnas, Evaldas Jocys,
Arūnas Drąsutis, Tomas Venckūnas; Martynas Slivskis all these players were
from Plunge. But there were a lot of players from other towns and even
other countries: Dainius Staugaitis from Mažeikiai, Igors Miglinieks from
Latvia, Nerijus Zabarauskas Jonava, and Ramūnas Petraitis Kaunas.
From 1985 till 1993 they took part in LBC. At the beginning the name
of the team was Linų Audiniai and later it was changed to Olimpas. 1996 the
name of the team was again changed in to Zemaitijos Lokiai. And half of the
plays were staged in Plunge and other half in Mažeikiai. From 1998 Plunge
has no team taking part in LKL championship. Players from Olimpas now are
playing in other teams like: Augenijus Vaškys and Midaugas Pranskevičius
are playing in Poland, Dainius Miliūnas plays in Klaipėda, Evaldas Jocys
Ramūnas Petraitis and Arūnas Drąsutis are playing in the USA students
league. Plungės Olimpas had a lot of trainers like: Genadijus Glikmanas,
Hendrikas Giedraitis, and Rimas Endrijaitis. All these years the president
of the team was Vitas Klimas. Plunges Olimpas played in European cups. Two
years they played in Krachas cup and one year in Saportos cup. The main
sponsors of our team were Litoda and Mažeikių Nafta.
From 1994 till 1999 Plunge had another team that took part in the
LKaL championship. The primal name was ŽŪM and after some years it was
changed into Olimpas2.
The best players of this team were Alvydas Žukauskas now he is playing
in Mažeikių Nafta team, Alvydas Jocys now he is in the USA, Remigijus