🏀📺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.
🏈🏉0️⃣1️⃣5️⃣ Richard Tardits
Meet Richard Tardits, a rugby player from Bayonne who following a storied career with the University of Georgia became the first French player in the National Football League (NFL).
🏀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.
🏀0️⃣1️⃣0️⃣ Paoline Ekambi
Meet Paoline Ekambi, the 1993 European Vice-Champion and first French female to play NCAA Division 1 basketball in 1984.
🏀0️⃣0️⃣9️⃣ Diandra Tchatchouang
Meet Diandra Tchatchouang, the Olympic-medal winning activist whose time playing NCAA basketball influenced her on-court game and off-court work back home.
🏀0️⃣0️⃣8️⃣ Katia Foucade-Hoard
Meet Katia Foucade-Hoard, the 1993 European Vice-Champion and first French woman to play four years of NCAA D1 basketball on scholarship.
🏀0️⃣0️⃣7️⃣ Gabby Williams
Meet Gabby Williams, the Franco-American WNBA veteran whose polyvalent hoops abilities helped Les Bleues win EuroBasket 2021 silver and Tokyo 2020 Olympic bronze medals.
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.