Trevor C. Williams
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Trevor C. Williams (was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1965).
Trevor Williams is a former member of the Canadian national men's basketball team and currently the head coach of the Dawson College Lady Blues AAA basketball team in Montreal, which won a provincial championship in 2002. He attended Southern University in Louisiana where he was a team mate of former NBA player and current head coach of the Dallas Mavericks, Avery Johnson. He also attended St. Peter's college in New Jersey on a basketball scholarship, and in his fifth and final year of eligibility, he returned to Montréal to play basketball for Concordia University (Stingers), (1989-1990 season). However, during the middle of the basketball season, he got into a dispute with head coach John Dore, and left the Stingers for good.
He is a former basketball player (point guard) to come out of the city of Montreal, where he played at Westmount high school, and later at Dawson College for the Blues, AAA basketball team, with teammates Wayne Yearwood and Dwight Walton. His quickness, speed, and jumping ability is outstanding, and is demonstrated when he played for team Canada against the original USA Dream Team (Dream Team I) of basketball in the 1992 Tournament of the Americas, which took place in Portland, Oregon, United States.
He played against the likes of Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Scottie Pippen, Larry Bird, Patrick Ewing, John Stockton, and the rest of the 1992 USA Dream Team of basketball, the greatest Basketball team and greatest Athletic team the United States has ever put together.
In 1993 he founded the Trevor Williams basketball camp, and in 2002 he founded the Trevor Williams Kids Foundation to help troubled inner city youth of the city of Montreal.
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- FrozenHoops.com History of NBA basketball in Canada. Selection of Top 100 Canadian players of all time
