Romel Raffin
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Romel Raffin (born April 23, 1954, in Toronto, Ontario) is a three-time Canadian Olympian in men's basketball.
A resident of Kitchener, Ontario, Raffin played for Canada at the 1976, 1984, and 1988 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the 1980 team as well which had qualified for the tournament but did not participate due to the Canadian Olympic Committee's decision to boycott the Moscow games.
A centre-forward, Raffin played college basketball for the Penn State Nittany Lions from 1974 to 1978. He played professionally in Italy for one year and spent another year playing pro in Venezuela, with Cocodrilos de Caracas.
In the early 80's Raffin taught physical education, as well as some other courses at Woodman Jr. High in Calgary.
Raffin became basketball coach at Central Memorial High School in Calgary in 1989 and the school's athletic director in 1994. He was inducted as a player into the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame in 1996.
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[edit]- 1954 births
- Living people
- Basketball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Basketball players at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Basketball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Basketball players at the 1987 Pan American Games
- Canadian basketball coaches
- Canadian expatriate basketball people in Italy
- Canadian expatriate basketball people in the United States
- Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Venezuela
- Canadian men's basketball players
- 1974 FIBA World Championship players
- Centers (basketball)
- Cocodrilos de Caracas players
- High school basketball coaches in the United States
- Olympic basketball players for Canada
- Pan American Games competitors for Canada
- Penn State Nittany Lions basketball players
- Power forwards
- Basketball players from Toronto
- Summer World University Games medalists in basketball
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Canada
- Medalists at the 1983 Summer Universiade
- Canada men's national basketball team players
- 20th-century Canadian sportsmen