Roderick Wellington

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Roderick Wellington (born 1978 in Tooting, England) is a British professional basketball player, and currently plays for the Guildford Heat in the British Basketball League.

The 6ft5 tall Forward was educated at Marjon's College, based in Plymouth and it was here where he started his professional basketball career with the Plymouth Raiders in 2002, then a National Basketball League team.

After enjoying two very succesful years with the Raiders, Roderick made the jump to the top-level British Basketball League with fellow team mate Dean Williams, both of whom joined the Thames Valley Tigers in 2004, the same year that the Raiders also made the jump to the BBL. After one season with the Tigers, the club folded and through the efforts of local fans a new club was set up to replace them, the Guildford Heat, of which Dean was a part of the first roster of the new club.

At the beginning of the 2006-07 season, after failing to sort out a contract with the Heat, Wellington signed for English Basketball League team Worthing Thunder where he played for two months, before resigning with the Heat in November 2006.