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All-Canadian Basketball Game
The Cwench All Canadian Games are a pair of annual all-star basketball games, each featuring rosters composed of Canada's top senior high school players for that school year. Both games are played as a doubleheader; the first game featuring the top senior girls, followed by the second game featuring the top senior boys. History The All Canadian basketball game was founded in 2015 by CEO of "Bounce Elite" (a premier boys basketball program) Tom McIntyre, Athlete Institute CEO Jesse Tipping, & BioSteel Sports Nutrition CEO & co-founder John Celenza. The first four editions of the game only featured a boys game, but the event was later expanded to include a girls game in 2019. The games feature the top 24 senior male and female high school basketball players either born in Canada or playing in the country. The Canadian game has drawn comparisons to America's McDonald's All-American Game. The first boys game was attended by upwards of 60 executives and scouts from the National Basketbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All-star Game
An all-star game is an exhibition game that showcases the best players (the "stars") of a sports league. The exhibition is between two teams organized solely for the event, usually representing the league's teams based on region or division, but sometimes dividing the players by an attribute such as nationality. Selection of the players may be done by a vote of the coaches and/or news media; in professional leagues, fans may vote on some or all of the roster. An all-star game usually occurs at the midpoint of the Season (sports)#Regular season, regular season. An exception is American football's NFL Pro Bowl, which occurs at the end of the season. All-star games are usually organized like regular games, but are often played with less emphasis on victory. Competing goals are to give many players time in the game and to avoid injury. In ice hockey, for example, there is no serious checking (ice hockey), checking, while in American football no blitz (gridiron football), blitzing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goldring Centre For High Performance Sport
The Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport is a 2,000 seat indoor arena facility at the University of Toronto's St. George campus in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is home to the university's Varsity Blues basketball and volleyball teams. The facility was completed in the fall of 2014 at a cost $58 million, with $22.5 million coming from the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities and $11 million from the Goldring family, for whom the centre has been named. The facility was designed by Patkau Architects anMacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architectsin a joint venture, with landscape architecture bPLANT Architect structural engineering bBlackwell and construction services bEllis Don Along with the 2,000-seat, internationally rated field house for basketball, volleyball and other court sports, the multi-storey sport and exercise facility houses a state-of-the-art strength and conditioning centre, fitness studio and sports medicine clinic, along with research and teac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thon Maker
Thon Marial Maker (born 25 February 1997) is a South Sudanese-Australian professional basketball player for the Al Riyadi Club Beirut of the Lebanese Basketball Federation. He attended high school at Orangeville District Secondary School (Ontario, Canada) and played basketball for Canada's Athlete Institute. He was picked 10th overall in the 2016 NBA draft, and played for three different NBA teams between 2016 and 2021. Early life Maker was born in Wau, a city located in what is now South Sudan. His uncle, a local administrator, arranged for Maker, his younger brother, Matur, and his aunt to escape the civil war to Uganda. From there, they were accepted as refugees by Australia; they then moved to Perth, Western Australia when Maker was five years of age and the family eventually settled down. When he was 14, Maker was discovered playing soccer in the Perth suburb of Mirrabooka, by Edward Smith, an Australian of African-American heritage who helped children from migrant b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toby Fournier
Toby Lee Fournier (born October 3, 2005) is a Canadian college basketball player for the Duke Blue Devils of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Early life and high school career Fournier competed in the long jump, ballet, association football, soccer, and gymnastics before focusing on basketball, which she began playing at age 12. In eighth grade, she drew attention on Instagram for her slam dunk, dunking ability. Fournier played for Crestwood Preparatory College in Toronto. She competed in the Nike Hoop Summit, where she recorded 18 points and 9 rebounds for the World Select team. Rated a five-star college recruiting, recruit by ESPN, she committed to play college basketball College basketball is basketball that is played by teams of Student athlete, student-athletes at universities and colleges. In the Higher education in the United States, United States, colleges and universities are governed by collegiate athle ... for Duke Blue Devils women's basketball, Duke. Nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elijah Fisher
Elijah Fisher (born January 3, 2004) is a Canadian college basketball player for the Seton Hall Pirates of the Big East Conference. He previously played for the Pacific Tigers, the DePaul Blue Demons, and the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Early life Fisher was born in Oshawa, Ontario, the second of five children of Thelia and Rohan Fisher. At age 12, as a seventh-grader, he competed for the under-18 high school team at Crestwood Preparatory College in Toronto. Fisher became the first middle school student to play for Crestwood Prep's varsity team. By the age of 13, he stood 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m). He was considered by many analysts to be the number one player in his class as he entered high school. Fisher was a consensus five-star recruit and one of the top players in the 2023 class; before reclassifying to the class of 2022. College career Fisher played as a freshman for the Texas Tech Red Raiders in 2022–23. In May 2023, he announced his transfer to the DePaul Blue Demons. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quincy Guerrier
Quincy Guerrier (born May 13, 1999) is a Canadian professional basketball player for Montreal Alliance of the Canadian Elite Basketball League. Guerrier played college basketball for the Illinois Fighting Illini, Oregon Ducks and Syracuse Orange. Early life and career Guerrier was born in Montreal and played soccer and street hockey before focusing on basketball. He attended Thetford Academy in Thetford Mines, Quebec for five years, turning down offers from larger schools. In 2018, Guerrier was named team most valuable player at the BioSteel All-Canadian Game. He averaged 24.7 points and 6.2 rebounds per game in his final season with Thetford. Guerrier competed for Brookwood Elite and CIA Bounce on the Amateur Athletic Union circuit. He committed to playing college basketball for Syracuse over offers from Illinois and Oregon. College career Syracuse Guerrier was unable to enroll at Syracuse University in January 2019 because his academic records were not presented to the Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matur Maker
Matur Marial Maker (born 1 January 1998) is a South Sudanese-born Australian basketball player for CS Maristes of the Lebanese Basketball League. He moved to Australia in his childhood and played for various prep schools in Canada and the United States, before forgoing college basketball. He won an List of NBL champions, NBL championship with the Sydney Kings in 2022. Early life Maker was born in what is now known as South Sudan on 1 January 1998, joinng his older brother Thon Maker. In Matur's early childhood, his uncle, a local administrator, helped the family flee to Uganda amid a Second Sudanese Civil War, civil war in their home country. They then settled in Perth, Western Australia as refugees when Maker was four years of age but continued making occasional visits to South Sudan. Matur first started playing soccer at Grayhounds soccer club, a club where many south Sudanese kids played for and alongside his brother Thon. At age 13, Matur was discovered by basketball scou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luguentz Dort
Luguentz Dort (born April 19, 1999; or ) is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Arizona State Sun Devils. Dort joined the Thunder as an undrafted free agent in July 2019 and is the longest tenured player on the team. Highly regarded for his defense, Dort was named to the NBA All-Defensive First Team in 2025, later winning the NBA Finals that same year. Dort completed his high school career at the Athlete Institute in Mono, Ontario, where he was rated as high as a five-star recruit and was one of the top high school players in Canada. In his first year with Arizona State, he earned second-team All-Pac-12 Conference honours and was named to the all-defensive team in the Pac-12. He was also voted the conference's freshman of the year. Early life Dort was born in Montreal, Quebec, to Haitian parents who moved to Canada from Saint-Marc when they were around 21 yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jahvon Blair
Jahvon Michael Henry-Blair (born March 27, 1998) is a Canadian professional basketball player for Poitiers Basket 86 of the LNB Pro B. He played college basketball for the Georgetown Hoyas. High school career Blair attended St. Edmund Campion Secondary School in Brampton, Ontario before completing his high school career at the Athlete Institute in Mono, Ontario, where he averaged 23.6 points, 6.4 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game. He was named most valuable player of the Jordan Brand Classic International Game and the BioSteel All-Canadian Game. He committed to playing college basketball for Georgetown, becoming the first commitment during the tenure of head coach Patrick Ewing. College career As a freshman at Georgetown, Blair averaged nine points and was named to the Big East All-Freshman Team. He declined to 4.1 points per game in his sophomore season. On February 8, 2020, Blair scored a career-high 30 points in a 76–72 win over DePaul. As a junior, he averaged 10.8 poin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamal Murray
Jamal Murray (born February 23, 1997) is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also represents the Canadian national team and played one season of college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats. He was selected by the Nuggets as the seventh overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft. He was a part of the team's first championship run in 2023. Early life Murray was born and raised in Kitchener, Ontario, the son of Sylvia (from Syria) and Roger Murray (born in Jamaica and moved to Canada at age nine).Meet the Wildcats: Family, basketball at center of Murray’s life CoachCal.com. Accessed on March 21, 2016. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Most Valuable Player
In team sports, a most valuable player (MVP) award is an honor typically bestowed upon an individual (or individuals, in the instance of a tie) whose individual performance is the greatest in an entire league, for a particular competition, or on a specific team. The purpose of the award is to recognize the contribution of the individual's efforts amongst a group effort, and to highlight the excellence, exemplariness, and/or outstandingness of a player's performance amidst the performance of their peers in question. The term can have different connotations depending on the context in which it is used. A 'League MVP' is the most valuable player in an entire league, and refers to the player whose performance is most excellent in the league. Similarly, a "Team MVP" is the most valuable player on a team, referring to the player whose team contribution is greatest amongst their teammates. In many sports, MVP awards are presented for a specific match—in other words, a player of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humber Polytechnic
The Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, rebranded as Humber Polytechnic since 2024, is a public college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1967, Humber has three main campuses and locations: the Humber North campus, the Lakeshore campus, and the International Graduate School. Today, Humber boasts over 200 programs, 86,000 full time students and 9,300 international students. Programs Humber Polytechnic offers more than 200 programs, including bachelor's degree, diploma, certificate, post-graduate certificate and apprenticeship programs, across 17 areas of interest. Humber also provides academic advisors and resources, such as a career finder. Beyond this, Humber also provides Bridging (or Bridge Training) Programs for internationally trained professionals in the fields of engineering and information technology. Humber serves more than 86,000 learners. History Humber College was established in 1967 under its founding President, Gordon Wragg. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
