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Reginald Dewayne “Reggie” Kirk is an American former professional basketball player, entrepreneur, basketball trainer, personal trainer, and sports official. After playing at Vincennes University in Indiana and finishing second at the National Junior College Championship in 1986, Kirk went on to play the remainder of his collegiate career at Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas (1986–87 and 19987-88). Subsequently, he joined the World Basketball League (WBL)’s Youngstown Pride. In his first year, he played along with Mario Eli and won the World League Championship in 1989 with an average of 7.3 points, 2.4 rebounds and 2.0 assists in 11 minutes per game. From 1990 to 1992, Kirk played for the WBL’s Florida Jades before joining the United States Basketball League’s West Palm Beach Stingrays, with whom he averaged 15 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals and shot 60% from the field. In the spring 1993, Kirk started his professional international career by playing successively in the Dominican Republic (for Juan Pablo Duarte, La Uce, Quisqueya, Consuelo and Savica), Mexico (for Durango and Juarez), England (for Birmingham Bullets and London’s Milton Kings Lion), and China. After his retirement as a basketball player in 2002, Kirk embraced the refereeing and coaching career in Atlanta, Georgia. And since 2013, he created a training institution called “Better Skills Better Players”, which is developing personalized and group training programs for athletes at several levels, including middle-school, high-school, college and professional. Early years Kirk's first love of sport was baseball and was a late bloomer in the game of basketball in middle school where he started playing organized basketball; but he was not in the starting Five so basketball did seem to be his sport of choice. He grows a little each year and played good as a freshman and sophomore. At the end of the season in his junior year, Kirk was playing football with his best friend whom fell on his leg and fractured the bone. It was a blessing for him because the accident enabled him to grow to 6’1 from 5’9. Motivated to prove his worth, Kirk was integrated to varsity’s starting line-up. He played for Hammond High School in Indiana where he led his team in scoring, rebounding, assisting and stealing, and he was named to the All Conference and All Indiana teams as a senior. In 1985, Kirk was not awarded a scholarship to play for Vincennes University in Indiana. Instead, he walked on and led his team to a 36-2 record and runner-up of the National Junior College Championship in 1986.In 1986, he was awarded a scholarship to play for Fort Hays State University in Hays from 1986 to 1988. Kirk began professional play in 1989-1990 with the World Basketball League (WBL)’s Youngstown Pride, and averaged 7.3 points, 2.4 rebounds and 2.0 assists in 11 minutes per game. He went on to play with WBL’S Florida Jades in 1990 and 1991. In 1992, he joined the United States Basketball League’s West Palm Beach Stingrays, with whom he averaged 15 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals and shot 60% from the field. Professional career - 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Reggie Kirk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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