Pierre Valmera
Personal information
Born (1981-09-29) September 29, 1981
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
NationalityHaitian
Listed height6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Listed weight250 lb (113 kg)
Career information
High schoolCollège Nicolas Copernic[1]
(Port-au-Prince)
CollegeUnion University[1]
NBA draft2003: undrafted
PositionCenter
Number44, 14
Career history
2008–2009BC Boncourt (Switzerland)[2]

Pierre "Pierry" Valmera (born September 29, 1981) is a retired Haitian professional basketball player, who played for Ancien in the Ligue Nationale de Basket in Switzerland.[3][4]

Early years

Valmera was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Having taught himself basketball in his native country, he emigrated to the United States and became a standout player at Union University in Tennessee.[3][5]

Personal life

When Valmera's playing career concluded, he relocated to Boston, Massachusetts where he worked as a substitute teacher in French and history at a middle school. Soon after his arrival in the states, he met David Franklin Rose, a business owner of an architecture firm. Together, they founded a non-for-profit organization called POWERforward International Inc., created to help young Haitians gain private-school educations in the United States through basketball. He is a philanthropist and donates his time and money to develop basketball in Haiti. He has 38 kids in the US on full basketball scholarships, including 6 college graduates and 1 playing for the Sacramento Kings, Skal Labissiere. Some of his other students go to the top schools in the country, like Mississippi State and Vanderbilt University.

References

  1. 1 2 Union University Athletic Information: Pierry Valmera
  2. ↑ Ligue Nationale de Basket: Pierry Valmera
  3. 1 2 Moxley, Mitch. "Building Haiti's Dream Team: Basketball's Biggest Longshot". Men's Journal. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  4. ↑ "JOUEUSES / VALMERA Pierry". LNBA: Ligue Nationale de Basket. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  5. ↑ Aldridge, Steven. "Union basketball signs Haitian for 2002-03 season". BPSports. Retrieved 1 October 2014.


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