Mouhammad Faye

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Mouhammad Faye

College	Georgia Tech
Conference	ACC
Sport	Basketball
Position	Small forward
Class	Redshirt freshman
Career	2006 – present
Height	6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)
Weight	208 lb (95 kg)
Nationality	Senegal
Born	September 14, 1985 (age 21) Dakar, Senegal
High School	SEED Academy, Dakar, Senegal

Mouhammad Faye (born September 14, 1985) is a Senegalese college basketball player for the NCAA's Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Standing 6'10" and weighing 208 pounds, the redshirt freshman plays small forward and wears #11.

1 Biography
- 1.1 Early life and high school
- 1.2 College
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life and high school

Faye was born to Demba and Mame Youmane Niang Faye.^[1] He is the youngest of five children; his oldest brother, Assane Faye, played basketball at the University of New Hampshire.^[1] Faye attended SEED Academy in Dakar, Senegal. In 2002 he was a member of the Senegalese under-18 national basketball team, and in 2004 he was a member of the under-20 national team.^[1]

[edit] College

Due to a delay in the translation of his transcripts, Faye sat out his first season and was cleared to begin practice with the team in the fall 2006 semester.^[1] He started his career as a redshirt freshman in the 2006-07 season, but his initial playing status was in question due to a wrist injury that he sustained in a pickup game over the summer.^[2] Faye became a starter when his teammate Lewis Clinch was supended for the remainder of the 2006-07 season on January 5, 2007.^[3] Faye was sidelined again on February 5, 2007 after struggling with flu-like symptoms, which coach Paul Hewitt speculated may have been caused by mononucleosis.^[4]