Career
Larry played for Language Park Basketball club as a junior. He was one of the star players in the early years of Australia"s fledgling National Basketball League (NBL). Sengstock played 456 NBL games over 18 seasons, starting with the Saint Kilda Saints and later playing for the Brisbane Bullets, Gold Coast Rollers and North Melbourne Giants.
He was named Most Valuable Player in the 1979 Grand Final.
Twenty years later, the Grand Final Most Valuable Player award would be renamed the Larry Sengstock Medal in his honour. That year he was also named to the Australian Olympic team for the first time and played for the Boomers in 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia.
He also represented Australia at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles (United States of America), 1988 (Seoul, South of Korea) and 1992 in Barcelona, Spain, and at four International Basketball Federation World Championship tournaments (1978, 1982, 1986 and 1990). Sengstock scored 5,466 career points (119 ppg) and recorded 3,221 rebounds (70 rpg).
He is tenth on the NBL"s all-time rebounding list entering the 2003/04 season.