Jack Jennings (born October 15, 1969, in Covington, Kentucky)[1] is an American-Israeli[2] former basketball player. Standing at 6 ft 5 (1.96 m), he played as forward.
High school and college career edit
Jennings played for Holmes High School of Kentucky and graduated in 1988. He averaged 34.4 points in his senior season and scored 41 points in a state tournament game. Jennings was inducted to the Greater Cincinnati Basketball Hall of Fame in 2019.[3]
He went on to play collegiate basketball with Western Kentucky from 1990 to 1992.[4] There, Jennings averaged 17.6 points and 7.6 rebounds over his two seasons as a started for WKU.[3]
Professional career edit
In the 1992–93 season, Jennings played in the Dutch Eredivisie with Donar (named VGNN Donar for sponsorship reasons).[5] He won the Most Valuable Player award of the Eredivisie season. He averaged 26.7 points in his sole season with Donar.[6]
Jennings also played in Turkey, Israel and Argentina later in his career.[7]
References edit
- ^ "Jennings, Jack – 623676 | WKU Athletics". Retrieved June 30, 2022.
- ^ Proballers. "Jack Jennings's Basketball Records (Regular season)". Proballers. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
- ^ a b "Local high school players among latest inductees into Greater Cincinnati Basketball Hall of Fame | NKyTribune". Retrieved June 30, 2022.
- ^ "Jack Jennings College Stats". College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
- ^ DonarMuseum. "Jack Jennings - DonarMuseum.nl". www.donarmuseum.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved June 30, 2022.
- ^ "Jack Jennings Basketbal statistieken Spelers Dossier - NBB Database, basketball statistieken". db.basketball.nl. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
- ^ Eurobasket. "Jack Jennings Player Profile, Bahia Basket, News, Stats - Latinbasket". Eurobasket LLC. Retrieved June 30, 2022.