The swamp is getting bigger in Gainesville, Florida.
The Florida Gators are set to usher in Canadian huge man Olivier Rioux later this 12 months to clog up the paint, and he’s going to be within the document books.
Olivier Rioux, 18, is listed as 7 ft, 9 inches tall. (Photo by Casey Brooke Lawson/ IMG Academy)
Rioux, 18, is listed as 7 ft, 9 inches tall on the Gators’ web site, which might make him the tallest faculty basketball participant of all time.
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He doesn’t maintain the document simply but, as he has not performed faculty ball in the intervening time, however when he does, he’ll surpass Paul Sturgess, the 7 ft, 8 inch big who performed at Florida Tech and Mountain State. He later went on to change into a Harlem Globetrotter.
According to the positioning, Rioux is the Guinness World Record holder for tallest teenager, when he stood at 7 ft, 5 inches tall as a 15-year-old.
Olivier Rioux would change into the tallest faculty basketball participant of all time as soon as he begins his collegiate profession. (IMG Academy)
He stood 6 ft, 1 inch at age 8, 6 ft, 11 inches by sixth grade, and he reached 7 ft through the summer season earlier than coming into seventh grade.
Rioux has since had one other progress spurt, gaining 4 inches within the final two years, in line with Ball Is Life.
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Rioux says he wears a dimension 20 shoe on his Instagram bio. He says his older brother is 6 ft, 9 inches, his dad is 6 ft, 8 inches, and his mother is 6 ft, 1 inch.
Rioux performed highschool ball on the IMG Academy and was a three-star prospect.
He is listed on MaxPreps has the 376th-ranked participant in his class and the 56th-ranked heart.
(Olivier Rioux performed highschool basketball at IMG Academy.)
Rioux helped Canada to a bronze medal on the 2023 U18 FIBA AmeriCup whereas averaging 4.5 factors and 4.5 rebounds per recreation, together with 10 factors vs. Venezuela and 9 rebounds vs. Puerto Rico.
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The Gators haven’t made the NCAA Tournament since 2021, once they misplaced to No. 15 Oral Roberts within the Round of 32. They final gained all of it in 2007, which was the back-end of back-to-back titles.
