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AC in the News: Pro basketball player has AC connection

March 31, 2022
From CBC News Nova Scotia

March 30, 2022 - "Keith Gough's hoop dreams started when he was a seven-year-old boy in Lower Sackville, N.S., watching his older brother Kenyon play. 


"Coming up through the ranks, I started at A.J. Smeltzer Junior High and then I did fairly well there," Gough says. 

"I played a year at Sackville High and then ended up moving into Halifax to play for the Halifax West Warriors for the last two years for coach Mark Parker."

He played for Nova Scotia's junior provincial team, including at the Canada Games, where he competed against future NBA star Steve Nash. He moved to Ottawa to study and play at Algonquin College before turning pro in the late 1990s."

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