Reinis Bluķis

In a career lasting from 1931-49 Reinis Bluķis played with Rīga City or Rīga US, although he had one season with Dinamo Rīga and finished his career in Germany with three seasons on Augsburg HC. He also played in North Dakota in the USA and in Manitoba, Canada, although that is not well-documented. A right winger, Bluķis skated at the 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Olympics and at the 1933, 1935, and 1938-39 World Championships. He won four Latvian Championships – in 1937, 1940, and 1942 with Rīga US, and in 1941 with Dinamo Rīga. Bluķis was also a top basketball player, winning three Latvian titles in that sport and played for Latvia at the 1935 and 1937 World University Games.

Bluķis graduated from Rīga State Technical School and earned an engineering degree. After World War II he worked in civil service with the US Army Corps of Engineers. He finally settled in the United States and eventually died in San Mateo, California.