ALTIUS BASKET is a full-service basketball agency, created by Martins Berzins in September 2017 on the base of an individual basketball development school with the same name. Right now ALTIUS BASKET is representing more than 20 top Latvian men & women basketball players and most promising prospects.
Martins Berzins is the CEO of ALTIUS BASKET Agency and a FIBA licensed basketball agent. From 2010 till 2017 Martins was GM/Sports Director of Basketball club Valmiera and during that time club's main team reached 7 Latvian 1st Division play-offs, 4 semi-finals, bronze medals in 2013 and Latvian Champion title in 2016 (became the first club neither from Riga nor Ventspils in LBL 28 seasons history). In season 2016/2017 Valmiera won the Baltic Basketball League Cup.
Martins played basketball from age 6 (4 times became Latvian youth champion) till junior age (graduated basketball department). During the studies he played for Riga Stradins University basketball team.
Martins holds a Bachelor's degree in political science and Master's degree in governance and communication.