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Here's a great trivia question -- see how many of the answers you can get.....
HOW MANY PLAYERS FROM PEORIA HAVE BEEN MEMBERS OF ONE OF OUR TEAM USA BASKETBALL TEAMS FOR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION??
The OFFICIAL SITE of USA Basketball has an all time roster for every player that ever played on any team
from U16 all the way to the Olympics and who has represented the USA on any official team.
There's well over 1000 such players going all the way back to the 1940's but guess which single city boasts the MOST players of any city in the universe...
YUP -- that's right -- it's Peoria -- and that's mostly because in the 1940's and 1950's most of the official teams and Olympic teams were made up of amateur players and often from the Peoria Caterpillars...
See how many of these guys you knew played for some version of TEAM USA...
Here are the Peoria Caterpillar AAU amateur players who are listed on the all time Team USA roster...who were on various teams in the 50's & 60's
Ron Bontemps
Bert Born
Robert Boozer
Marcus Freiberger
Richard Gott
Forrest Hamilton
Bill Johnson
Allen Kelley
Frank McCabe
Kirby Minter
Don Penwell
Dan Pippin
Dick Retherford
Kendall Sheets
Ed Solomon
Joe Stratton
Howard Williams
Here are the Peoria kids who went as teens...
Shaun Livingston
Brian Randle
And here are the players from Bradley that also went - Hersey on the 1988 Olympic Team and AP on the 1996 U20 team..
Anthony Parker (1996 U20)
Hersey Hawkins
Danny Granger (USA 2010)
Jim Molinari coached 1997 World Univ. Games & 1991 Junior Worlds
Ex-BU asst Mo McHone coached Pan Am
..and several Peoria guys, Warren Womble in particular coached the Cats
And here's one I did not recall but it is accurate -- our very own massive Mike Williams when he was playing CBA ball with the Sioux Force Skyforce, tried out and made the Pan Am roster...
Massive Mike Williams (1995 Pan Am Games)[url]
That's 25 from just ONE city in the midwest -- Peoria has every right to be proud!!
HOW MANY PLAYERS FROM PEORIA HAVE BEEN MEMBERS OF ONE OF OUR TEAM USA BASKETBALL TEAMS FOR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION??
The OFFICIAL SITE of USA Basketball has an all time roster for every player that ever played on any team
from U16 all the way to the Olympics and who has represented the USA on any official team.
There's well over 1000 such players going all the way back to the 1940's but guess which single city boasts the MOST players of any city in the universe...
YUP -- that's right -- it's Peoria -- and that's mostly because in the 1940's and 1950's most of the official teams and Olympic teams were made up of amateur players and often from the Peoria Caterpillars...
See how many of these guys you knew played for some version of TEAM USA...
Here are the Peoria Caterpillar AAU amateur players who are listed on the all time Team USA roster...who were on various teams in the 50's & 60's
Ron Bontemps
Bert Born
Robert Boozer
Marcus Freiberger
Richard Gott
Forrest Hamilton
Bill Johnson
Allen Kelley
Frank McCabe
Kirby Minter
Don Penwell
Dan Pippin
Dick Retherford
Kendall Sheets
Ed Solomon
Joe Stratton
Howard Williams
Here are the Peoria kids who went as teens...
Shaun Livingston
Brian Randle
And here are the players from Bradley that also went - Hersey on the 1988 Olympic Team and AP on the 1996 U20 team..
Anthony Parker (1996 U20)
Hersey Hawkins
Danny Granger (USA 2010)
Jim Molinari coached 1997 World Univ. Games & 1991 Junior Worlds
Ex-BU asst Mo McHone coached Pan Am
..and several Peoria guys, Warren Womble in particular coached the Cats
And here's one I did not recall but it is accurate -- our very own massive Mike Williams when he was playing CBA ball with the Sioux Force Skyforce, tried out and made the Pan Am roster...
Massive Mike Williams (1995 Pan Am Games)[url]
That's 25 from just ONE city in the midwest -- Peoria has every right to be proud!!
