Rodger Smith
July 23, 2020
Willie Jennette
- Nationality: USA
- Date of Birth:
- Place of Birth: Aurora, North Carolina (USA)
- Position: SF
- Height (CM): 201
- Weight (KG): #N/A
- Junior Assoc:
- College: North Carolina Central (1985-1986)
- NBL DEBUT: 6/06/92
- AGE AT DEBUT: 0
- LAST NBL GAME: 25/09/92
- NBL History: Gold Coast 1992
- Championships: 0
- None
BIO: Willie Jennette was born in Aurora, North Carolina (USA).
NBL EXPERIENCE
Willie Jennette made his NBL debut with the Gold Coast Rollers on 6/6/1992. He scored 10 points in his first game.
Jeanette was signed as a replacement player for Gold Coast Rollers import Mike Mitchell after he sliced up his hand punching a window after a loss to Illawarra.
Willie Jennette played one season in the NBL. He averaged 7.9 points, 2.8 rebounds, and 1.1 assists in 15 NBL games.
NBL TOTAL STATISTICS
| SEASON | AGE | TEAM | TEAM RECORD | GP | MINS | PTS | REB | AST | OR | DR | STL | BLK | TO | PF | FGM | FGA | FG% | 3PM | 3PA | 3P% | FTM | FTA | FT% | TS% | EFG% | HS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 0 | Gold Coast | 11-13 (10) | 15 | 256 | 119 | 42 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 16 | 25 | 36 | 101 | 36% | 13 | 43 | 30% | 34 | 41 | 83% | 49% | 42% | 19 | Totals | 15 | 256 | 119 | 42 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 16 | 25 | 36 | 101 | 35.6% | 13 | 43 | 30.2% | 34 | 41 | 82.9% | 50% | 42% | 19 |
NBL PER GAME STATISTICS
| SEASON | AGE | TEAM | TEAM RECORD | GP | MINS | PTS | REB | AST | OR | DR | STL | BLK | TO | PF | FGM | FGA | FG% | 3PM | 3PA | 3P% | FTM | FTA | FT% | TS% | EFG% | HS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 0 | Gold Coast | 11-13 (10) | 15 | 17.1 | 7.9 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 1.7 | 2.4 | 6.7 | 36% | 0.9 | 2.9 | 30% | 2.3 | 2.7 | 83% | 49% | 42% | 19 | Total | 15 | 17.1 | 7.9 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 1.7 | 2.4 | 6.7 | 35.6% | 0.0 | 0.0 | 30.2% | 0.9 | 2.9 | 82.9% | 50% | 42% | 19 |
CAREER HIGHS
| POINTS | REBOUNDS | ASSISTS | STEALS | BLOCKS | TURNOVERS | TRIPLE DOUBLES | 19 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
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STATE LEAGUE EXPERIENCE
- Bulleen 1988-89 | Noarlunga City 1990, 1992-93 | Mount Gambier 1991 | Albany 1995 | South Adelaide 2000
Jennette arrived in Australia originally to play with the Bulleen Boomers in the SEABL, Australias second tier competition at the time. He played for the Boomers during the 1988 and 1989 seasons, averaging 34.4 and 34.3 points per game.
In 1990, he moved to Adelaide to play locally with the Noarlunga City Tigers and in SEABL with the composite Adelaide Buffalos team. He bumped his scoring average up to 39.8 points per game in 1990 and was awarded the 1990 Woolacott Medal (SA State league best and fairest).
The following year, he increased his scoring again, this time averaging 40.1 points per game in the SEABL for the Mount Gambier Pioneers.
Jennette was named in the SEABL All-Star Five during the 1989-1991 seasons. Over Jennettes first four seasons in the SEABL he averaged 37.3 points per game over 94 games.
The following season he was signed mid-season to play in the NBL with the Gold Coast Rollers.
After his one season in the NBL, he joined the Noarlunga Tigers where he was a part of their 1992 championship team where he played alongside Brett Wheeler, Ricky Simpson, Rick Hodges and Ben Osbourne. He returned to the Tigers in 1993, who despite losing big man Brett Wheeler to rival South Adelaide, went on to win back-to-back titles, defeating Murray Bridge (92-64).
He then chose to play in the WA state league in 1995, playing 17 games for Albany and recording 26.9 points per game.
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Argentina - Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata (1987–1988)
Willie Jennette played for Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata in Argentina during the 1987 season. Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata competed in Argentina’s top tier league that season, where Jennette led the team in scoring, and helped the club reach the final four.
He spent a second season with Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata in 1988 where he won team MVP honours.
COLLEGE
Willie Jennette played his college basketball at North Carolina Central University (NCCU).
During the 1985-86 season at NCCU, Jennette produced one of the most prolific scoring campaigns in the program’s record listings, totaling 573 points, which ranks as the ninth-highest single-season points total in school history.
Jennette’s best-known outburst that season came on Dec. 14, 1985, when he poured in 43 points against Gardner-Webb, a performance that sits among the top single-game scoring marks in NCCU history listings.
Across that same 1985-86 season, he also posted notable free-throw production in record listings, including a game at Shaw on Jan. 7, 1986 (overtime) where he made 16 free throws on 18 attempts, and another at Elizabeth City State on Jan. 13, 1986 where he went 15-for-16 at the line.
Season-long, Jennette’s 1985-86 production included heavy trips to the stripe, with later NCCU materials crediting him with 175 made free throws on 221 attempts (79.2%) that season, and contemporaneous coverage from the period also credited him as an inside focal point who averaged 22.5 points and 8.4 rebounds per game the prior year referenced in that report’s context of NCCU’s roster turnover.
AWARDS
- SEABL All-Star Five (1989-1991)
- Woolacott Medal (1990)
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