NAME :

Walter Ray Allen

DATE OF  BIRTH :

July 20, 1975

AGE :

 28

BIRTH PLACE :

Castle Air Force Base (in) Merced, California

HEIGHT :

 6'5

WEIGHT :

 208(current)

HIGH SCHOOL :

Hill Crest (in) Dazell, South Carolina

COLLEGE :

UCONN (in) Storrs, Connecticut

Ray was the first player in UConn men's basketball history to be named All-American status as only a sophomore. He was a contender in the nation's top ten pre season Naismith National Player of the year .Allen is in his 5^th season in the NBA now and starts for the Milwaukee Bucks.  Ray was the 1996 Big East Player of the Year, and a unanimous All-Big East First team pick, after averaging 23.4 ppg, 6.5 rpg and 3.3 apg.  He even was a consensus All-America First Team selection by the AP, UPI, The Sporting News and the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) as a junior at Connecticut.   Allen scored 8 points in the Schick Rookie Game during the 1997 NBA All-Star Weekend in Cleveland and also competed in the Nestle Crunch Slam Dunk.  He was named to the 1996-97 NBA All-Rookie Second He was the first player to pass the 1000 point at UConn as a sophomore. Ray Allen helped lead the US to the gold medal at the World University Games in 1995.
Ray was named honorary captain of the 25-member UCONN All-Century Basketball Team and with his 1,200th career free throw on 12/23/2000, he qualified as the eighth-best free throw shooter in NBA history. 

He won the 1 800 CALL ATT Shootout during 2001 All-Star Weekend, led the Bucks in scoring and ranked 14th in the NBA with 22.1 points per game, and also ranked 2nd in the NBA in three-point field goals made (172), 5th in free-throw percentage (.887), and 11th in three-point field-goal percentage (.423) in 1999-2000.