Osvaldo Jeanty

Osvaldo Jeanty (born August 1, 1983)[1] is a Canadian basketball coach and former professional basketball player. He is currently serving as the head coach of the Ottawa Blackjacks.

Osvaldo Jeanty
Personal information
Born (1983-12-01) December 1, 1983
Belle-Rivière, Haiti
NationalityHaitian / Canadian
Listed height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Career information
High schoolSamuel-Genest
(Ottawa)
CollegeCarleton (2002–2007)
NBA draft2006 / Undrafted
Playing career2007–2013
PositionGuard
Number8
Career history
2007–2009Giants Nördlingen
2009–2010CS Gaz Metan Mediaș
2010Gießen 46ers
2010–2012Medi Bayreuth
2012London Lightning
2013Mitteldeutscher BC
Career highlights and awards
  • German ProA champion (2008)
  • Eurobasket.com ProA First Team (2008)
  • 5× CIS Champion (2003–2007)
  • CIS Final Ten's MVP (2006)
  • CIS All-Star (2006)
  • 2× First-team All-Canadian (2006, 2007)
  • 2× Second-team All-Canadian (2006, 2007)
  • CIS Male Athlete of the Year (2005)

He is one of the all-time greats of the Carleton University Ravens men's basketball team and a member of the Ravens' Hall of Fame. Jeanty was named CIS male athlete of the year in 2006, and CIS basketball player of the year in 2006 and 2007.[2] He also played on Canada's men's national team.

Upon graduation, he spent six years playing professionally in Germany, Morocco, Romania and in the NBL Canada. He retired from professional basketball in November 2013.[3]

University career

Born in Belle-Rivière, Haiti, Jeanty attended Carleton University majoring in commerce.[4] In 2006, he was named the 2006 CIS male athlete of the year, by the Borden Ladner Gervais awards committee, becoming the first of two Carleton Raven student-athletes to do so in its twenty-one year history.[4] Jeanty won Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) titles every year while at Carleton, and was the MVP in four of those five championship games.[5] During the 2005–06 season, he led the Carleton Ravens men`s basketball team to their fourth straight CIS national basketball championship while leading the Ravens in scoring with a total of 326 points, which equates to an average of 14.8 points per game.[4] In addition to being selected to the CIS All-star team during the 2005–06 season, Jeanty was also named the CIS `final 10` tournament MVP thus earning himself every MVP opportunity he could have that season.[4]

Professional play

Jeanty began playing internationally in the 2007–08 season playing for the Giants Nördlingen in Germany.[6] He contributed to the success of the team that season, and helped them reach the first place in the ProA championship and therefore gaining the team a spot in the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL),[6] Germany's top-tier league, while receiving ProA First team honors by eurobasket.com.[7] He signed a contract extension with the Giants in June 2008[8] and would average 13.3 points, 2.6 rebounds and 1.8 assists in 32 BBL contests during the 2008-09 BBL campaign.[9]

For the 2009–10 season, Jeanty started in Morocco, then returned to Nördlingen for a short stint, before signing with CS Gaz Metan Medias in Romania. In January he returned to the BBL to join the Giessen 46ers team where he stayed for the rest of the season. Throughout the 2009–10 season, Jeanty averaged 13.1 points, 2.3 rebounds all while shooting 40.7% of his three-point shot attempts.[6]

For the 2010–11 season, Jeanty remained in the German BBL, signing with BBC Bayreuth on a one-year contract which was later extended to 2012.[10] On November 2012, Jeanty left the German league to play with the London Lightning in the National Basketball league of Canada.[11] Jeanty would only spend half a season with the Lightning, averaging 4.5 points, 1.6 rebounds and 1.1 assists.[12] Jeanty returned to Germany to play with BBL side Mitteldeutscher Basketball club and as a member of the team, averaged 7.5 points per game in the 2012–2013 season.[13]

He announced his retirement from professional basketball in November 2013.[3] On October 16, 2014, Jeanty was inducted into the Carleton University Ravens Hall of Fame.[14]

International play

He played for Canada's national men's basketball team on a European tour in the summer of 2006[15] and ended up in seventh place with Team Canada at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[16]

Post-playing career

Following his playing career, Jeanty worked for a company in Ottawa, offering full service brokerage services.[17] He also remained close to the sport of basketball: Jeanty and his former Carleton teammate Willy Manigat run the Premier Hoops Academy.[18]

Jeanty served as head coach of Cégep de l’Outaouais' basketball team between 2014 and 2016[19] and then joined the coaching staff of the Carleton University men's basketball team as an assistant to Dave Smart from 2016 to 2019.[20] In 2020, he was named as the head coach of the CEBL's Ottawa Blackjacks.[21]

Personal life

Jeanty resides in Gloucester, Ontario.

References
  1. Jeanty Basketball
  2. "Carleton's Osvaldo Jeanty Earns Second Straight Mike Moser Memorial Award As Basketball Player Of The Year. Jeanty Becomes First Raven To Earn Country's Top Award In His Sport Twice!". March 16, 2007. Archived from the original on August 9, 2013.
  3. Editor (2013-11-03). "Former Carleton Ravens Legend - Osvaldo Jeanty retires from basketball | OttawaHoops". OttawaHoops. Retrieved 2016-11-14.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  4. "Carleton's OSVALDO JEANTY Named 2006 CIS Male Athlete of the Year". May 2, 2006.
  5. Gray, Devin (June 19, 2013). "Osvaldo Jeanty, The Wizard of Os".
  6. "Bayreuth signes Osvaldo Jeanty". June 24, 2010.
  7. "PROA_2007-2008 Basketball League GERMANY - eurobasket.com". www.eurobasket.com. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
  8. "Giants TSV 1861 Nördlingen | Jeanty bleibt". Retrieved 2016-11-14.
  9. "easyCredit - 484 NÖR". www.easycredit-bbl.de. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
  10. Carchia, E. (June 24, 2010). "Osvaldo Jeanty inks with BBC Bayreuth".
  11. "THE LEGEND OF OZ". CTV London. December 1, 2012.
  12. "Jeanty leaves London Lightning". January 12, 2013.
  13. "OSVALDO JEANTY basketball profile".
  14. "Jeanty, Osvaldo - Go Ravens". goravens.ca. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
  15. "RAVENS TRIO TO SUIT UP FOR TEAM CANADA - Ontario University Athletics (OUA)". www.oua.ca. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
  16. "Jeanty Basketball | A Way of Life". osvaldojeanty.com. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
  17. "Wacyk Wealth + Commodity Futures Group". profile.rbcwealthmanagement.com. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
  18. "Premier Hoops Academy". Ottawa Shooting Stars Basketball Club. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
  19. "Jeanty cède la barre des Griffons à Lafleur | Marc Brassard | Sport régional". La Presse (in French). Archived from the original on 2016-11-15. Retrieved 2016-11-15.
  20. Junkie (2016-04-27). "CIS Coaching Alumni repping in NBA; Jeanty returns to CIS". CANhoops.ca. Retrieved 2016-11-15.
  21. "OTTAWA BLACKJACKS NAME OSVALDO JEANTY ITS FIRST HEAD COACH". www.theblackjacks.ca. 2020-01-24. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
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