Marquise Gray: A Storytelling Interview about Flint Basketball, Life as a Michigan State University Basketball Star, and a Flint Beecher High School Coach
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English - May 10, 2022 09:30 - 21 minutes - 49.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsSociety & Culture flint michigan arthur busch flint podcast radio free flint radio free flint mi rust belt local podcast Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Marquise Gray, the former Michigan State Spartan, is now the head basketball coach at Flint Beecher High School.
Marquise Gray has excelled at every level of his sport, including coaching and professional basketball. Gray played at Michigan State from 2005-to 09.
Marquise Gray has blazed a remarkable trail in basketball. He is currently Acting Athletic Director, head basketball coach, and a teacher for the Beecher Community Schools. His Flintstone values of grit, hard work, and excellence set him apart. Marquise Gray learned his values from his dad, great coaches, and the parents in his childhood neighborhood in Beecher.
Marquise Gray represents that part of Flint's athletic legacy that makes the area so unique. In returning to Beecher High School, Marquise wanted to pay back his community for all it had given him. Marquise grew up in the Flint area, learning the game from college and professional basketball players in pick-up games. He is deeply committed to the Beecher Community near Flint. During his time at Beecher, he has been part of winning four Michigan high school basketball titles, three of them in a row!
Gray played at Michigan State from 2005-09, reaching the NCAA national championship game as a senior against North Carolina. He played for Hall of Fame Basketball coach Tom Izzo.
Marquise has a spectacular high school career at Beecher High School, playing for a state championship. In high school, he was a named All-State and part of the Detroit Free Press Dream Team.
His basketball career continued after graduating with a degree in social work at Michigan State University. Marquise signed as a free agent with the Detroit Pistons, then played for seven years internationally in Isreal, Japan, Turkey, Mexico, and Poland. Basketball literally took him around the world.
Upon his retirement from professional basketball, he decided that he wanted to work in a job that helped young people. He help a position with the Boys and Girls Club in Flint. Then he became involved in coaching and teaching at Beecher High School. To listen to this and other Radio Free Flint podcasts visit our website at www.radiofreeflint.media . We are now making available transcripts of all new episodes for those who are hearing impaired.
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