Orlando Lightfoot
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 4, 1974 Chattanooga, Tennessee |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) |
| Listed weight | 224 lb (102 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school |
Chattanooga (Chattanooga, Tennessee) |
| College | |
| NBA draft | 1994 / Undrafted |
| Playing career | 1994–2007 |
| Position | Shooting guard |
| Number | 14 |
| Career history | |
| 1994 | Olimpia de Venado Tuerto |
| 1994–1995 | Le Mans |
| 1995–1996 | Geneve |
| 1996–1997 | Houthalen |
| 1997–1998 | Versoix |
| 1998–1999 | Houthalen |
| 1999–2001 | Braunschweig |
| 2001 | Drac Inca Mallorca |
| 2001–2002 | Herzogtel Trier |
| 2002–2003 | Antranik Beirut |
| 2003–2004 | BSC Raiffeisen Furstenfeld |
| 2004–2005 | Myleasecar |
| 2005 | Polynom Giants Bergen Op Zoom |
| 2005–2006 | KFUM Jämtland Basket |
| 2006 | Avanti Mondorf |
| 2006–2007 | KFUM Jämtland Basket |
Orlando Lightfoot (born December 4, 1974) is a retired American professional basketball player whose international career spanned between 1994–95 and 2006–07. He is best known in the United States for his collegiate career at the University of Idaho between 1991–92 and 1993–94 in which he was a two-time Big Sky Conference Player of the Year and graduated as the all-time leading scorer in conference history (2,201 points). Since retiring from basketball he has become an account manager for a trucking company in his hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Born in Chattanooga, Lightfoot played basketball at Chattanooga High School. He was named a Parade magazine All-American, was the 1989 Class AA Tennessee Mr. Basketball recipient and had signed a National Letter of Intent to play for the Oklahoma Sooners. Lightfoot's grades were so poor, however, that the NCAA's Proposition 48 did not allow him to enroll at the university. To improve his academic standing and to become eligible to play at a four-year Division I institution he enrolled at Hiwassee College, a junior college in Madisonville, Tennessee.
During Lightfoot's time at Hiwassee, his grades remained fairly poor. He played for the basketball team while enrolled, and even though he did not receive stellar marks in the classroom, they were good enough where he could play for a four-year school. After one year at the junior college, Lightfoot left. Due to NCAA rules, by leaving the two-year school early, he was forced to sit out on what would have been his true sophomore season but still afforded him the ability to retain three years of eligibility. During this one year off, he was determining which school to attend. Larry Eustachy, then-head coach of the Idaho Vandals men's basketball team, had approached Lightfoot during his freshman season at Hiwassee. One of Lightfoot's coaches at Hiwassee became an assistant to Eustachy at Idaho, and after encouragement from several of his junior college teammates who had visited that school and had loved it there, and thus he decided to play at Idaho.
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