🏀0️⃣4️⃣6️⃣ Vincent Collet
Meet Vincent Collet, the former player-turned-coach whose transatlantic hoops influences and relationships inform his work with professional teams, as well as that with Team France.
✍️🏀0️⃣4️⃣4️⃣ Deliah Mathieu
Meet Deliah Mathieu, a public relations and communications strategist whose storytelling work on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean have helped foster greater French-American understandings through sport.
🏀0️⃣4️⃣2️⃣ Agnus Berenato
Meet Agnus Berenato, a former player, storied NCAA Division 1 coach, educator and an early U.S. pioneer who played professional basketball in France.
🏀0️⃣4️⃣1️⃣Dianne Nolan
Meet Dianne Nolan, one of the longest reigning NCAA D1 women’s basketball head coaches who discovered her FranceAndUS connection at the world’s oldest basketball court in Paris during her broadcast career with ESPN.
🏀0️⃣4️⃣0️⃣ Melissa Diawakana
Meet Melissa Diawakana, a former professional player-turned-skills trainer, graduated professional coach, speaker, and media consultant who spun a passion for basketball into a career and passport to the world.
🏀0️⃣3️⃣9️⃣Gail Marquis
Meet Gail Marquis, a Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer with the 1976 Olympic silver medal-winning U.S. team who blazed trails in the United States and France through basketball.
🎨🏀0️⃣3️⃣8️⃣ Anaïa Hoard
Meet Anaïa Hoard, a multi-hyphenate artist, former basketball player, 2017 U16 European Champion, and 2018 U17 World Cup runner-up with the French National team who is helping to redefine basketball as a global cultural movement, not just a game.
🏀0️⃣3️⃣7️⃣ Fanta Daffe
Meet Fanta Daffe, a student-athlete swishing hoops on both sides of the Atlantic while representing France and Mali on and off the hardcourt.
🏀0️⃣3️⃣6️⃣ Mah Minthe
Meet Mah Minthe, a student-athlete transcending transatlantic ties through basketball to live her version of the “American Dream” on and off the court.
⛳🏀📺0️⃣3️⃣4️⃣Sébastien Audoux
Meet Sébastien Audoux, a veteran broadcast journalist who with Canal + helped translate via golf and basketball.
🏀0️⃣3️⃣0️⃣ Bob Riley
Meet Bob Riley, the former Atlanta Hawk who helped enrich the French game and national team as one of the first U.S.-born naturalized Frenchmen to play for Les Bleus in the 1970s.
🏀0️⃣2️⃣8️⃣ Bill Cain
Meet Bill Cain, the New York native who translated his NCAA student-athlete activist experience into a role as a sports ambassador for the United States, France, and Les Bleus in basketball.
🏀0️⃣2️⃣7️⃣ Tariq Abdul-Wahad
Meet Tariq Abdul-Wahad, the basketballer who, following an NCAA career with the University of Michigan and San Jose State, was the first Frenchman to play in the NBA in 1997.
🏀🗞0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣ Arnaud Lecomte
Meet Arnaud Lecomte, a basketball journalist for L’Équipe who has covered and translated the NBA for French audiences since 1992.
🏀0️⃣2️⃣1️⃣ Isabelle Fijalkowski
Meet Isabelle Fijalkowski, the 2001 European Champion and 1999 Vice European Champion who in 1997 was one of the first Frenchwomen to play in the WNBA.
🏀🔍0️⃣1️⃣9️⃣ Jon Pastuszek
Meet Jon Pastuszek, an international basketball scout helping to identify the next wave of players looking to realize their hoops dreams in the NBA.
🏀0️⃣1️⃣8️⃣ Rémy Raisner
Meet Rémy Raisner, a Franco-American NCAA player who helped colleagues on both sides of the Atlantic better understand the “other” through basketball.
🏀📺0️⃣1️⃣7️⃣ Johan Rat
Meet Johan Rat, a basketball coach, television analyst, and former NCAA D1 player who helped bring NCAA March Madness to French living rooms.
🏀0️⃣1️⃣4️⃣ Michel Rat
Meet Michel Rat, a basketball player, coach, and administrator who helped translate U.S. style basketball techniques to generations of French players from 1962 to today.
🏀0️⃣1️⃣1️⃣ Martin Feinberg
Meet Martin Feinberg, the player and coach who was one of the first Americans to mark French basketball in the 1950s.
Mapping the Connections
The connections highlighted by #FranceAndUS Voices over time.
Blue = From the United States to France. Red = From France to the United States.