Gary Collier

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Gary Collier (born October 8, 1971 in Fort Worth ) is a retired American basketball player .

Life

Collier grew up in Forth Worth, Texas , where he attended Dunbar High School until 1990, where he played for their basketball team. The 1.93-meter-long development and winger studied and played from 1990 to 1994 at the University of Tulsa . With an average of 22.9 points per match, he was the best scorer of the university team in the 1993/94 season. Overall, Collier scored 1610 points for Tulsa, which placed him third in the eternal basketball list at the time he left college. With 93 three-point throws, which he scored in 1993/94, Collier set a new record in the history of Tulsa's team.

Collier switched to professional business in 1994, in the NBA draft process in June 1994, the Cleveland Cavaliers secured  his rights (second selection round, 42nd place). He never played an NBA game, however, at the end of October 1994 he was removed from Cleveland's squad. He initially stayed in his home country, was under contract with the Quad City Thunder team in the Continental Basketball Association in the 1994/95 season , but posted moderate values ​​there with around 13 minutes of playing time and 4.2 points per encounter.

From 1995 to 1997 Collier played for the Belgian first division club Maes Pils Antwerp (in both years he came to around 19 points per game), then in 1997/98 in the same league at Oostende . In the summer of 1998 he was signed by the German Bundesliga club Tatami Rhöndorf . He reached the Bundesliga semi-finals with Rhöndorf, where they were eliminated against their Rhenish rival Bonn . Collier scored an average of 15.4 points and 4.5 rebounds per encounter in 33 Bundesliga appearances for the team during the 98/99 season. Collier and Alexander Frisch were the only players who took part in the team's move from Rhöndorf to Frankfurt am Main in the run-up to the 1999/2000 season . Collier played there for a year for the newly founded Skyliners . In the Frankfurt premiere season 1999/2000, he wore the colors of the Main-city-dwellers in 34 Bundesliga games and was therefore the team's best scorer. His 55 three-point throws hit with a high success rate of 48.2 percent were the team's best in the first year of Frankfurt. Collier was the crowd favorite on the Main.

From 2000 to 2003 Collier played again in Belgium, at the first division club Mons-Hainaut . In mid-February 2004 he was signed by the French capital club Paris Basket Racing , for the team he scored an average of 9.2 points per match in 15 missions by the end of the 2003/04 season. Afterwards, Collier went back to his home country and started a coaching career. He worked three years as an assistant coach at North Crowley High School in his native Fort Worth, then in the same city for four years as the head coach of Arlington Heights High School, followed by six years as the coach of Lewisville High School (also in Texas). In 2017, the father of three daughters took over the coaching position at Crowley High School in the Fort Worth area.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c Chris James on May 1, 2017: Crowley HS welcomes Gary Collier as new Mens Basketball Coach. In: Crowley High School. Retrieved May 1, 2017, June 6, 2020 (American English).
  3. ↑ https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/tulsahurricane.com/documents/2019/10/3/TU_MBB19_20_MG_Web.pdf
  4. ↑ 1994 NBA Draft. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Basketball Transactions Search Results. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Gary Collier Statistics on StatsCrew.com. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
  7. ↑ a b c Pro A: Gary Collier au PBR - Basket Info. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
  8. ^ Pro Exposure Online Transaction Wire. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
  9. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Bundesliga: Telekom Bonn in the final against Alba - DER SPIEGEL - Sport. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
  10. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Basketball: Frankfurt Skyliners have big goals - DER SPIEGEL - sport. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Frankfurt Skyliners 1999/2000. In: Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
  12. ^ Stephan Brause: Successful search for a potent partner . In: Deutscher Basketball Bund eV (Hrsg.): Special issue s.Oliver BBL season 2000/2001 . DSV Deutscher Sportverlag GmbH, Cologne 2000, p. 37 .
  13. ^ Collier Gary | LNB.fr. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Collier, Gary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Worth