Leopoldas Alfonsas Kepalas, son of Jonas and Elena Von Kulberg, born 6 Sept 1912 in Petrograd. He returned to Lithuania with his parents in 1924 and lived near Kamajai near Rokiškis. In 1926 he attended the Šiauliai school and was active in scouts. He then entered the technical school in Kaunas and upon graduation moved to Vilnius where he was the Director of a soap factory. 1927 – 1930 Šiauliu sports club member
1928 – 1931 Šiauliai and Kaunas Aušros men’s team
1932 – 1935 Kaunas sports club Grandis1932 – 1939 Lithuanian Basketball league
1936 – 1937 Lithuanian national Basketball team
1945 Hanau Lithuanian basketball team
1947 Bayreuth Basketball team
He was selected for the 1937 Lithuanian basketball team to play in Riga. He continued playing sports wile in Germany. A keen scout from a young age he continued this also as part of the Hanau camp scouts and later in Australia part of Melbourne Džiugo tuntas.
He arrived in Australia in 1948 and while in the Bonegilla Migrant camp organised a basketball team.
He married and was survived by a son and daughter.
He died 12 February 1981. Interned in Springvale Cemetery.
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