Marquise Gray: MSU Spartan for Life!

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. What sets him apart are his Flintstone values of grit, hard work and excellence. 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 special. In returning to Beecher High School, Marquise wanted to pay back his community for all it has 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 again 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.  He was recently named the head basketball coach at Beecher.   To listen to this and other Radio Free Flint podcasts visit our website at www.radiofreeflint.media .  

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