Ryan Thorne
Ryan Thorne (born 1971 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) the current head basketball coach of the women's team at McGill University, in Montreal, since the 2002−2003 season. Prior to that he was the assistant coach of the McGill Martlets basketball team.
He grew up in LaSalle, Quebec, where he learned to play basketball and polish his game at Ouellette Park, a basketball court that was a hotbed for basketball talent coming out of, not only the city of LaSalle but of Montréal as well. He was a basketball star while attending high school at Argyle Academy, in Verdun, Québec. After high school, he went on to star, and become an All-Canadian basketball stand out at John Abbott College in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, on Montréal's West Island. At John Abbott College he was also, the team captain and team MVP. He was heavily recruited by all the major universities in Québec, including some Division II NCAA colleges in the United States, particularly in Florida. He opted to attend Bishops University, in Lennoxville, Québec, were again he achieved All-Canadian honours and won a National CIAU (now CIS) Championship, as well as team MVP, and was team captain. His brother Adrian played football at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario.
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