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ALUMNI NEWS Scroll down the page for more news... If you are an alumni, or have news to share, please contact: webmaster@raidersbasketball.net Raiders Basketball Alumni, The 9th annual Alumni Basketball Reunion will be on Tuesday evening, January 26, 2010. All former girls and boys players, cheerleaders, and coaches are invited. We play Lassiter High School. The girls’ game begins at 6 P.M. and the boys’ game begins at 7:30 P.M. For more information, please contact Larry Pace at Walton, email – larry.pace@cobbk12.org or call Walton – 770-578-3225, ext 483. Please contact any basketball alumni and let them know about the reunion. Please come join us in the fun and fellowship. All former players, cheerleaders and coaches will be recognized between girls’ and boys’ games (about 7:15 P.M.) We will have a hospitality room in the cafeteria that will open at 6 P.M. Please feel free to bring your family. If you cannot attend, please email me your email address so we can notify you of later basketball reunions. To stay informed about raider basketball, log on to the web site: www.raidersbasketball.net. Thanks Larry Pace GO RAIDERS 1/3/2009 - ALUMNI NIGHT   
1/8/08 Alumni Night  11/5/07 Kevin Kruger drafted by Utah Flash. 3/19/07 USA Today article about UNLV's win over Wisconsin. 3/17/07 MDJ article about UNLV's win over Ga Tech. 3/16/07 MDJ article about alumni Kevin Kruger, now playing at UNLV. Aug. 2006--New updates to Alumni in College. Thanks to all the alumni and their families who attended Alumni Night 2005!  12/16/05 Alumni Night Click here to view more Alumni Night photos! Another Alumni found our website! Hakan Ozmen, Graduated Walton in 2001, and finished his 4th year playing at Illinois Institute of Technology. (they forgot to update their roster and have him listed as a junior) Hakan Ozmen, Illinois Institute of Technology  3/2/05 Junior forward Hakan Ozmaen (33) (Marietta, Ga./George Walton) led the Hawks with 10 points and six rebounds on the night. *Photo from IIT website. ************************************************************************************************* Walton Alumni, Tom Wideman, playing for basketball team in Madrid. Tom Wideman attended Walton from 1991-1995. He primarily played on JV his freshman year (Varsity 1 game) and Varsity for his last three years. He played for Coach Joe Wilson. Tom then played college ball at Clemson from 1995-1999. He played in the NCAA three times reaching the Sweet 16 his sophomore year. After college, his first pro team was the Raleigh Cougars of the United States Basketball League. The USBL is a short summer league that goes from April through June. Later that same summer, he played for the USBL's Pennsylvania ValleyDogs in Bethlehem, PA. For the 1999-2000 season, he tried out for the Atlanta Hawks and got released in the preseason. Tom then played in the Continental Basketball Association (a minor league of the NBA). He played in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. After the season he played in Venezuela for only 2 weeks before spraining his ankle and coming home. In the summer of 2000, Tom again played in the USBL, this time in Dodge City, Kansas where they won the league championship. For the 2000-01 season, Tom traveled to London to play for the London Towers. Halfway through the season he changed teams and went to Frankfurt, Germany to play for the Frankfurt Skyliners. In 2001-02 he played in the brand new NBA minor league, the National Basketball Development League (NBDL) in Greenville, South Carolina where they won the league championship. In 2002-03, Tom played his first season in Spain, playing in Santiago de Compostela for a team called Ulla Oil Rosalia in the second division in Spain, which is called LEB. In 03-04, he played for the same league (LEB) this time in Gijon, Spain for a team called Farho Calefacciones Gijon Baloncesto. And this year he is again in LEB, playing for a team outside of Madrid in a community called Fuenlabrada. His team is called Baloncesto Fuenlabrada and they are currently in first place in the league. Tom has also attended NBA summer camps for the Golden State Warriors, Toronto Raptors and the Miami Heat. On a personal note, Tom got married in the summer of 2001 to the former Whitney Fuller from Sautee, Georgia. They had their first child, Ryan James Wideman, in November 2003. He was born in Gijon, Spain. Thank you to Tom Wideman for providing all the above information. **************************************************************************************************** Article from the Marietta Daily Journal: Walton grad relishing his role with Montana Thursday, March 17, 2005 7:13 AM EST By Scott Blusiewicz MDJ Sports Writer As millions of viewers across the nation tune in to the NCAA men's basketball tournament today, Rich Stapleton will have a front row seat. And he just might wind up playing in the Big Dance. Stapleton, a former three-sport star at Walton, is a freshman walk-on guard for the University of Montana and will be in uniform when the No. 16-seeded Grizzlies take on top-seeded Washington at 3 p.m. today in the opening round of the Albuquerque regional in Boise, Idaho. Although he received offers to play college football at several Division II and Division III schools, Stapleton was determined to continue his athletic career at a Division I program. "I wanted to play D-I ball, just to give it a shot," Stapleton said. "As a little kid, you watch the NCAA Tournament and BCS football games and the College World Series. And I asked myself 'Can you really experience the same thing in Division II or Division III?' I just thought 'If I don't try D-I, I'll never know if I can make it.'" In order to make his dream a reality, Stapleton spent countless hours honing his skills in Walton's gym and working out in the school's weight room last spring. "It didn't surprise me that he went out there and actually made it," Walton boys basketball coach Joe Goydish said. "In the spring, he worked out almost every day in the gym. This is not something that was just given to him." After starting in football and basketball at Walton last year, Stapleton has made the adjustment from playing major minutes in high school to sitting on the bench in college. As a walk-on, his primary responsibility is to simulate the offensive and defensive schemes of opposing teams in practice to prepare his teammates for their next game. He has appeared in five games and played a total of 11 minutes for the Grizzlies this season. "It's pretty much the same as being a normal basketball player," Stapleton said. "They're (the coaching staff) not looking for you to come in on any given night and drop 25 (points). Making your teammates better is basically your job." Stapleton has excelled in his role throughout the season, according to first-year Montana coach Larry Krystkowiak. "He does exactly what you look for in a walk-on," Krystkowiak said. "He's one of the first guys to practice every day. He's a good student (and) he works his tail off. He's deserving to be a part of it. I'm just sorry I haven't been able to find more minutes for him." After playing on region championship teams in football and baseball in his final year of high school, success has followed Stapleton to college, as the Grizzlies went 18-12 and won the Big Sky Conference tournament to earn an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament. It is the school's sixth appearance in the NCAA Tournament and the first since 2002. "Winning the Big Sky championship - that was just an unbelieveable feeling," Stapleton said. "Knowing that you're playing on national television and playing for something most people never win. It's something you dream about (when you're) playing on your driveway." And for the record, Stapleton likes his team's chances against Washington, even though a No. 16 seed has never defeated a No. 1 seed since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985. "We are excited to play them because they are the No. 1 team that is the most susceptible (to an early upset)," he said. "We have a bigger front line than they do. If we can slow the game down and get (the ball) to those big fellas, I think we've got a pretty good shot." ALUMNI NIGHT 1/7/05    Click here to view more photos from 1/7/05 Alumni Night. (Thanks to Eric Brewton for providing these photos.) Thanks to all the alumni who attended Alumni Night. It is great to see the support of our program at Walton. Thanks to Coach Pace and his wife for organizing a great night for our Alumni! ALUMNI EXCHANGE STUDENT UPDATE Karoline Scheel was an exchange student from Germany who played on the Walton Girls Varsity Basketball team. She attended Walton 1998-1999. Karoline was a junior and played on the team that went to the Elite Eight playoffs. She is still playing basketball in Germany and finishing a degree in business at Bochum University. Universities in Europe do not have teams. Her team is not associated with any school. The team she currently plays on is semi-pro and is based in Bochum. Here is a link to her team: Bochum Basketball. Thanks to Bill and Carolyn Silzle, Karoline's host parents while she attended Walton, for providing this information and photo. Karoline may be reached at: Karoline.Scheel@gmx.de  Karoline Scheel, (# 6) former Lady Raider, playing in Germany.
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