Aaron Trahair

NBL Player Infobox
name = Aaron Trahair


nickname =
position = Guard
height = 194 cm
weight = 101 kg
team = Wollongong Hawks
nationality = Australia
birth_date = birth date|1976|2|3|df=y
birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria
first_nbl_game = 1994
junior_association =
college = Australian Institute of Sport
previous_clubs = Perth Wildcats 1994-96
Sydney Kings 1997-2000
Cairns Taipans 2001-02
West Sydney Razorbacks 2003-05
Hunter Pirates 2006
Singapore Slingers 2007
Perth Wildcats 2008
championships = 1995
career_highlights = Runner-up Rookie of the Year (1994)

Aaron Trahair (born 3 February 1976 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian basketball player currently playing in the National Basketball League and is a free agent.

Career

Before beginning his career in the NBL, Trahair attended the Australian Institute of Sport in 1992 and 1993. [cite web| title = Perth Wildcats Player Profile | publisher = NBL | date = 2007| url = http://www.perthwildcats.com.au/default.aspx?s=playerprofile&id=814&team=wildcats | accessdate = 2007-09-26] He began his NBL career with the Perth Wildcats in 1994, and was named runner-up to Sam Mackinnon in the Rookie of the Year award for that season. The following year, Trahair was a member of the Australian under 19's team that won silver at the Junior World Championships, and won his only NBL championship to date with the Wildcats. In doing so, he was a member of the Wildcats squad that travelled to the McDonald's Championship in London that competed against the NBA's Houston Rockets and Spain's Real Madrid.

In 1997, Trahair headed east to play with the Sydney Kings where he would remain until the conclusion of the 2000 season. Over the next several years, Trahair would play a series of short stints with numerous fledgling NBL clubs including the Cairns Taipans in 2001-2002, the West Sydney Razorbacks in 2003-2005, the Hunter Pirates in 2006 and the Singapore Slingers in 2007.

Prior to the commencement of the 2008 season, the unsigned Trahair trained and appeared in several pre-season matches with the Wildcats while in Perth visiting family. Despite early reports by The West Australian newspaper that the Wildcats would not sign Trahair (as they held out for the possibility that American forward Shawn Redhage would become an Australian citizen), the guard was officially signed up shortly before the first match of the season against his previous club, the Singapore Slingers.

After only playing 8 games with limited minutes for the Wildcats, Trahair was released by the club to allow him to sign with the Wollongong Hawks for the remainder of the 2008 season [cite web| title = Hawks add experience to roster | publisher = Sportal | date = 2008| url = http://www.nbl.com.au/default.aspx?s=newsdisplay&id=73659 | accessdate = 2008-12-30] .

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