Terry Brooks (basketball)

Terry Brooks
Personal information
Born c. 1968 (age 49–50)
Nationality American
Career information
High school South Macon (Macon, Alabama)
College Alabama State (1985–1989)
NBA draft 1989 / Undrafted
Position Guard
Career highlights and awards
  • SWAC Player of the Year (1989)
  • 2× First-team All-SWAC (1988, 1989)
  • Second-team All-SWAC (1987)
  • 2× SWAC scoring leader (1988, 1989)

Terry Brooks (born c. 1968) is an American former basketball player known for his collegiate career at Alabama State University. A guard, Brooks played for the Hornets from 1985 to 1989. During his career he scored well over 1,000 career points, including Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC)-leading 23.1 per game in 1987–88 and 24.6 per game in 1988–89.[1] In those two seasons he scored 624 and 721 total points, respectively.[1] As a junior he led the league in free throw percentage at 81.8%.[1]

Brooks' career accolades also include being selected to the All-SWAC Second Team in 1987, the First Team in both 1988 and 1989, and his highest honor was being the SWAC Player of the Year as a senior in 1988–89.[1][2] Following his college career, Brooks was selected in the 1989 Continental Basketball Association Draft by the Cedar Rapids Silver Bullets (6th round, 90th overall).[3]

Terry Brooks married his college sweetheart, now Jacquelyn Brooks, and they moved to Brevard County, Florida after college while she earned her master's degree at Nova Southeastern University.[4] They moved back to Macon County, Georgia in 1998 and Jacquelyn works in the Macon County School District.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Southwestern Athletic Conference". College Hoopedia. 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
  2. ↑ 1989–90 Sporting News Basketball Yearbook. Sporting News. 1989. p. 121.
  3. ↑ "1989 CBA Draft". NBA Hoops Online. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
  4. 1 2 Rhodes, Guy (September 23, 2010). "Superintendent found: Brooks enters into two-year contract with MCBOE". The Tuskegee News. Guy Rhodes. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
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