Whit Holcomb-Faye
{{short description|American basketball player}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}}
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| name = Whit Holcomb-Faye
| position = Point guard
| height_m = 1.85
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| nationality = American
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1984|9|19}}
| birth_place = Winston-Salem, North Carolina
| high_school = R.J. Reynolds High School
(Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
| college = Radford (2002–2006)
| draft_year = 2006
| career_start = 2006
| career_end = 2016
| team1 = 1. FC Kaiserslautern | years1 = 2006–2008
| team2 = Bayreuth | years2 = 2008–2009
| team3 = Saar-Pfalz Braves | years3 = 2009–2010
| team4 = Tigers Tübingen | years4 = 2010–2011
| team5 = WBC Wels | years5 = 2011
| team6 = Mitteldeutscher BC | years6 = 2011–2012
| team7 = Aris Leeuwarden | years7 = 2012–2013
| team8 = Leiden | years8 = 2013–2014
| team9 = Wolves Verviers-Pepinster | years9 = 2014–2016
| highlights =
- ProA champion (2012)
- DBL assists leader (2013)
- DBL All-Star (2013)
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Robert "Whit" Holcomb-Faye (born September 19, 1984) is a retired American professional basketball player. Holcomb-Faye played ten seasons as a professional player in several other hemispheres.
Career
Holcomb-Faye played for multiple German teams from the 2. Basketball Bundesliga and one team from Austria before signing with Aris Leeuwarden in the summer of 2012. Holcomb-Faye was one of the main reasons the team reached the Dutch finals for the first time in its history, as he averaged 14.5 points and 5.6 assist per game in the play-offs.{{Cite web|url=http://www.basketballleague.nl/teams_eredivisie/2013/7|title=Whit Holcomb-Faye|publisher=DBL|language=nl}} In the Finals Leeuwarden lost to ZZ Leiden, the team he would later sign with.{{Cite web|url=http://www.leidschdagblad.nl/regionaal/leidenenregio/article23598963.ece/Whit-Holcomb-Faye-naar-ZZ-Leiden?lref=sll|title=Whit Holcomb-Faye naar Leiden|publisher=Leidsch Dagblad|date=July 19, 2013|access-date=March 31, 2018|language=nl}} For the 2014–15 season, he signed with VOO Wolves Verviers-Pepinster.{{Cite web|url=http://basketball.eurobasket.com/player/Robert-Holcomb-Faye/Belgium/VOO-Wolves-Verviers-Pepinster/55365?|title=Robert Holcomb Faye|publisher=Eurobasket.com|access-date=March 31, 2018}}
Honours and titles
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;Mitteldeutscher BC
- ProA: 2011–12
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References
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Category:American expatriate basketball people in Austria
Category:American expatriate basketball people in Belgium
Category:American expatriate basketball people in Germany
Category:American expatriate basketball people in the Netherlands
Category:American men's basketball players
Category:Aris Leeuwarden players
Category:Basketball players from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Category:Dutch Basketball League players
Category:Medi Bayreuth players
Category:Mitteldeutscher BC players
Category:Radford Highlanders men's basketball players