Men's Alumni

David Tingley

Mount Allison Mounties 1994-

Riverview High Class of 1994

Dave has been playing basketball since the age of 11 and represented Basketball New Brunswick at Eastern Canadian and National tournaments starting at 15.

Dave was a part of the first Riverview High School team to capture a provincial championship under Magic fan Dave Wheaton, after which he joined the Mount Alison Mounties under coach Steve Chapman.

After moving back to greater Moncton in 2001, he began coaching the JV Boys team at Riverview High. In their second season, they captured a provincial championship and that summer he began coaching with Basketball New Brunswick with their under-16 boys program.

Dave became the assistant basketball coach with the RHS Varsity Boys team and was part of the school’s second provincial championship with coaches Mike MacDougall and Gary Fox. After having first daughter 9-years ago, Dave had to step away from coaching but has been active in men’s leagues in the area and is extremely pleased that he has been able to continue his relationship with Hub City hoops in the booth for the Miracles and now, the Magic.

Dave looks forward to continuing to polish his on-the-air work for the team along with partner Scott Squires, while continuing to contribute written content for monctonmagic.ca. A basketball-centric podcast of his own is also in the works for the fall.

** Credits to the Moncton Magic's website for Dave's Bio and photo

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Andrew Sullivan

Dalhousie University 2005-2010

Riverview High Class of 2005

The Dal Tigers captain wrapped up his five-year university career with the varsity team, having racked up 391 assists and taking home the 2010 CIS Ken Shields Award. A national award, it recognizes outstanding achievement in three areas: basketball, academics and community involvement.

The environmental engineering student from Riverview was a four-time Academic All-Canadian, Dean’s List scholar, Sexton scholar, and was Dalhousie’s nominee for the Rhodes scholarship. He was also one of four outstanding student leaders to win a prestigious Governor’s Award in 2010.

In his final season with the Tigers, Sullivan averaged 10.1 ppg, 2.4 rpg, 4.9 asst in 33 mpg.

Alex McLoed

Crandall University 2010-2014

Riverview High Class of 2009

Alex graduated in 2008 from RHS, the year Riverview won the NB AAA provincial championships. McLoed was awarded team MVP, Eastern Conference All-star, and Finals MVP.

After high school Alex went on to play 3 years at Holland college, 2010, 2011, 2012 and was awarded a conference all-star in 2011. In 2013 would move to Crandall University. He was awarded team MVP in 2013 and Athlete of the year in 2014.

In his final year of eligibility, McLoed and the Chargers would travel to British Colombia to compete in the CCAA championship tournament. Crandall would not finish in the top 4 but the experience was one of the highlights of his career.

McLoed in the 2013-14 season and his final year was 3rd in team scoring averaging 13.3 ppg.

Anthony Sears

Acadia University 2009-2014

Riverview High Class of 2009

Sears a 2009 Riverview High school graduate and a member of the RHS Varsity boys basketball team who went on to win the New Brunswick senior boys AAA high school championship in 2008. He was selected the Northeast Conference senior boys AAA player of the year in 2009.

Anthony, a 6-foot-4 point guard, scored 1,149 points (averaging 32.8 points per game) in his senior campaign at RHS, was recruited by universities from nearly every province, not surprising since he was ranked in the top 10 among high school point guards in the country on the Hoopstars Canada website. Among his recruiters across the nation were: Bishops University, St. FX, UNB, Ottawa, Calgary and Windsor. According to Sears, he had it slimmed down to two suitors, Acadia and Bishops. He would go on to play for Acadia, becoming an impact player in his first season with the Axemen right out of the gate.

In January 2012, Sears then a third-year recreation management student at the time was named CIS athelete of the week. He was near-perfect in a 108-65 home win over Cape Breton scoring a season-high 35 points in only 19 minutes of court time on 14-of-15 shooting from the floor, including a perfect 5-for-5 from the three-point line. He also grabbed a game-high eight rebounds.

The Riverview native played on Basketball NB's U15, U16 and U17 teams and was named Acadia men's basketball defensive player of the year 2010-2011, was named AUS all-rookie team in 2010, the AUS 2nd team All-Star in 2011-2012 and had grown into one of the league’s top perimeter defenders. Anthony was also named most valuable player of AUS 2012 conference tournament won by the Axemen at the Halifax Metro Centre. These are just a few of his accomplishments over the years.

Anthony suffered a broken foot in September 2012 requiring surgery to insert a pin, but but never gave up on the season. He started back in mid January finishing the regular season and going on to help his team to an impressive fourth place finish at this years CIS Final 8 tournament held in Ottawa in March 2013.

In his final year Sears and the Acadia team would make it to the AUS playoffs but would be eliminated by ST FX in the semi-final. Sears played in 84 games over 5 years at Acadia averaging 14.7 ppg, 3.1 rpg, 2.3 ast/g and 1.5 steals.

Steve Ethelston

Holland College 2012-2014

Riverview High Class of 2011

Ethelson was a member of the Holland College Hurricanes . Steve was on the floor in one of the most remarkable comeback in ACAA history. The Hurricanes down by 5 in the dying moments of a semi final game vs MSVU were able to hit 2 clutch 3 pointers in less than 5 seconds to plull ahead and win the game. Holland would go on to defeat STU in the final to claim the schools first ever conference championship.

Ethelson career average at Holland were 8.7 ppg and 2.3 rpg. Steve also had a 40.4% FGA.

Steven was stand out member of the Royals Basketball varsity program also played with the Codiac Storm U16 summer team under coaches Norvall McConnell , Gerard Reinders and Troy MacKenzie.

Jesse Balser

Mount Allison 2013-2015, 2016-2017

UNB 2012-2013

Riverview High Class of 2011

Balser is a 5’10 guard who played for the UNB Varsity Reds in 2012 before transfering to MTA. Jesse played for Gary Fox at Riverview High for 3 years and acted as team captain grades 11 and 12. During his senior year received the awards of basketball team MVP as well as the RHS male athlete of the year.

Balser is no stranger to high level provincial basketball as well. He competed with the U16 and U-17 New Brunswick team at nationals in the past also.

Jesse recentlty brought his court experience back to behind the bench for the 2015-2016 as an assistant coach for the JV Boys at Riverview High for the 2015-16 high school season.

Aram Currie

Mount Allison 2017 - Present

Riverview High Class of 2017

Aram Currie on HUDL

Aram Currie - 3rd year at Mount Allison majoring in Chemistry with a minor in Psychology. In his 2018-2019 season with the Mounties Aram was named MVP for the team and was named a 1st team All-Star in the ACAA. He was also named Rookie of the Year in 2017-18 for the Mounties.

Aram has volunteered with RMBA coaching teams between Mini & Bantam Spring League for 3 years and currently is involved with tutoring a student at Marshview Middle School in Sackville.

Outside University, he has worked the past two summers with Farmer Browns & Baymount Outdoor Adventure as a kayak tour guide loving both jobs!

While Aram was in high school he was named MVP in 2017 for his Varsity basketball team and awarded Male Athlete of the Year that same year. In 2015 he was also named MVP for his JV bball team and also was the JV Male Athlete of the Year that same year. He was a member of the 2015 NBIAA Provincial AAA basketball Championship team and was named an NBIAA All-Star in both 2016 and 2017.

Outside of high school Aram played summer basketball for team New Brunswick U14 in 2014 and with the U17 squad in both 2015 and 2016.

Aram made his way through the ranks of the RMBA REP programs on Mini and Bantam teams that both won provincial banners.

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Brody Blakney

Mount Saint Vincent 2017 - Present

Mount Allison 2016 - 2017

BMHS Class of 2016

Riverview High 2012 - 2015

Brody Blakney - 4th year at MSVU taking Business Administration completing a double major in Marketing and Management.

Brody has worked for the Kingswood academy last past three summers and has been involved with a variety of volunteer work including Ronald Macdonald House, Sisters for Charity, Bell's "Let's Talk Student-Athlete Mental Health" and the "Shoe Box Project".

After playing his rookie season at Mt. A,, Brody moved to MSVU to play for the Mystics excelling both in the classroom and on the court. He is a two time recipient of the Franklin Raymond and Helen Plato Academic/Athletic Achievement Expendable Award. He was named the Mystics "Most improved player" in both 2017 and 2018. Brody was also an ACAA 2nd team All-Conference Award winner for the 2018-19 season as well as a Academic All-Canadian in 2018-19 as well. Brody was recognized as the ACAA's player of the week back in Feb 2018 and was the Mystics Athlete of the week for the week of Dec 3 of this year.

Prior to university Brody attended RHS for his freshman and sophomore playing a year of JV ball and a year with the varsity Royals. In his grade 11 year he made the move to BMHS. During his time with the Highlanders he was named their "Basketball Player of the year" for both his grade 11 and 12 years. Excelling academically, he made the principle list twice and graduating with honours in 2016.

He was also named to the NBIAA Northeast All-Star Team in 2016.During his high summers Brody was involved with the Moncton Sweat Academy program and played for BNB's U15 DEV,U15 and U16 Provincial teams.

Brody got his start with the RMBA playing from puppy through Bantam playing on their REP teams since being in grade 4.