🏈0️⃣4️⃣3️⃣ Maceo Beard
Meet Maceo Beard, a cornerback for the Paris Musketeers who facilitates the transatlantic sports conversation thanks to his passion for American football.
🏀0️⃣4️⃣2️⃣ Agnus Berenato
Meet Agnus Berenato, a former player, storied NCAA Division 1 coach, educator and an early U.S. pioneer who played professional basketball in France.
🏀0️⃣4️⃣0️⃣ Melissa Diawakana
Meet Melissa Diawakana, a former professional player-turned-skills trainer, graduated professional coach, speaker, and media consultant who spun a passion for basketball into a career and passport to the world.
🏀0️⃣3️⃣9️⃣Gail Marquis
Meet Gail Marquis, a Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer with the 1976 Olympic silver medal-winning U.S. team who blazed trails in the United States and France through basketball.
🎨🏀0️⃣3️⃣8️⃣ Anaïa Hoard
Meet Anaïa Hoard, a multi-hyphenate artist, former basketball player, 2017 U16 European Champion, and 2018 U17 World Cup runner-up with the French National team who is helping to redefine basketball as a global cultural movement, not just a game.
🏀0️⃣3️⃣7️⃣ Fanta Daffe
Meet Fanta Daffe, a student-athlete swishing hoops on both sides of the Atlantic while representing France and Mali on and off the hardcourt.
🏀0️⃣3️⃣6️⃣ Mah Minthe
Meet Mah Minthe, a student-athlete transcending transatlantic ties through basketball to live her version of the “American Dream” on and off the court.
⚽0️⃣3️⃣5️⃣ Camille Abily
Meet Camille Abily, a soccer warrior who, after an international and professional playing career, is writing a new chapter as Assistant Coach at her former team Olympique Lyonnais Féminin, the world’s most dominant professional club.
🤺0️⃣3️⃣3️⃣ Justin Tausig
Meet Justin Tausig, a sports and performance psychologist and former six-time member of the U.S. Senior National Team who cut his teeth in the world of elite fencing in Paris at the Racing Club de France.
⚽0️⃣3️⃣2️⃣ Hakim Zermouni
Meet Hakim Zermouni, whose informal sports diplomacy experience demonstrated the power of sport through football.
🎾0️⃣3️⃣1️⃣ Helen Hull Jacobs
Meet Helen Hull Jacobs, a U.S. tennis player, three-time French Championship finalist, and on-court fashion pioneer who, through the “Battle of the Helens,” helped forge one of the sport’s first fierce rivalries.
🏀0️⃣3️⃣0️⃣ Bob Riley
Meet Bob Riley, the former Atlanta Hawk who helped enrich the French game and national team as one of the first U.S.-born naturalized Frenchmen to play for Les Bleus in the 1970s.
🏀0️⃣2️⃣7️⃣ Tariq Abdul-Wahad
Meet Tariq Abdul-Wahad, the basketballer who, following an NCAA career with the University of Michigan and San Jose State, was the first Frenchman to play in the NBA in 1997.
⚽️0️⃣2️⃣3️⃣ Laura Georges
Meet Laura Georges, Secretary-General of the French Football Federation (FFF) and former international and professional footballer who was one of the first French women to play NCAA D1 football in 2004.
🎾0️⃣2️⃣2️⃣ Mary K. Browne
Meet Mary Kendall Browne, a pioneering professional tennis player nicknamed “Brownie,” who in 1926 became the first American woman to contest the French women’s championship title–today’s Roland Garros tournament.
🏀0️⃣2️⃣1️⃣ Isabelle Fijalkowski
Meet Isabelle Fijalkowski, the 2001 European Champion and 1999 Vice European Champion who in 1997 was one of the first Frenchwomen to play in the WNBA.
🏀0️⃣1️⃣8️⃣ Rémy Raisner
Meet Rémy Raisner, a Franco-American NCAA player who helped colleagues on both sides of the Atlantic better understand the “other” through basketball.
🏀📺0️⃣1️⃣7️⃣ Johan Rat
Meet Johan Rat, a basketball coach, television analyst, and former NCAA D1 player who helped bring NCAA March Madness to French living rooms.
🏈🏉0️⃣1️⃣5️⃣ Richard Tardits
Meet Richard Tardits, a rugby player from Bayonne who following a storied career with the University of Georgia became the first French player in the National Football League (NFL).
🏀0️⃣1️⃣1️⃣ Martin Feinberg
Meet Martin Feinberg, the player and coach who was one of the first Americans to mark French basketball in the 1950s.