Omar Strong
Strong shoots the ball in 2015
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| UJAP Quimper 29 | |
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| Position | Point guard |
| League | Nationale Masculine 1 |
| Personal information | |
| Born |
May 16, 1990 Baltimore, Maryland |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
| Listed weight | 162 lb (73 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school |
Fredrick Douglass (Baltimore, Maryland) |
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| NBA draft | 2013 / Undrafted |
| Playing career | 2013–present |
| Career history | |
| 2013 | Pee Dee Vipers (PBL) |
| 2014 | Beroe (Bulgaria) |
| 2014–2015 | Mississauga Power (Canada) |
| 2015–present | UJAP Quimper 29 (France) |
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Omar Strong, Sr. (born May 16, 1990) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for UJAP Quimper 29 of the Nationale Masculine 1 (NM1) in France. In 2012–13, he was a senior at Texas Southern University and was named the Southwestern Athletic Conference Player of the Year.
Strong was born on May 16, 1990 and brought up in Baltimore, Maryland.
Strong attended Fredrick Douglass High School in Baltimore, Maryland. Playing the point guard position, he averaged 22 points, four assists and three steals per game as a senior in 2007–08. That year Frederick Douglass won the Baltimore city title. Strong was named to The Baltimore Sun All-Metro team in each of his final two seasons.
Due to poor academic performance, Strong was unable to commit to a four-year college basketball program right out of high school. He enrolled at Cecil College, a junior college in Maryland, to work on his academics while also gain some playing experience at the next level. He played for Cecil in 2008–09, took one season off to focus solely on school, then re-joined the team in 2010–11. Numerous mid-major universities offered him scholarships after his second season at Cecil. Strong ultimately chose to play for the Texas Southern Tigers, citing "I think I'll have a better experience if I go away."
In 2011–12, his junior year, Strong led the Tigers in scoring. He guided them to the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Tournament championship game, where the winner gains an automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament, but Texas Southern lost 71–69 to Mississippi Valley State; Strong scored 30 points in the loss. At the end of the season he was named to the All-SWAC Second Team.
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