Petey Sessoms

Petey Sessoms
Personal information
Born	June 10, 1972 (age 52); Portsmouth, Virginia
Nationality	American
Listed height	6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Listed weight	200 lb (91 kg)
Career information
High school	Cradock (Portsmouth, Virginia)
College	Old Dominion (1991–1995)
NBA draft	1995: undrafted
Playing career	1995–2004
Position	Small forward
Career history
1995–1996	Ironi Ramat Gan
1997–1998	Njarðvík
2002–2003	Elitzur Kiryat Ata
2003–2004	Ramat Hasharon/Haifa
Career highlights and awards
	Icelandic champion (1998); CAA Player of the Year (1995); 3× First-team All-CAA (1993–1995); CAA tournament MVP (1995); CAA All-Rookie Team (1992);

Petey Sessoms (born June 10, 1972) is an American retired professional basketball player. He played in six countries in his career that spanned between 1995–96 and 2003–04. He is best known in the United States for his college career at Old Dominion University in which he was named the Colonial Athletic Association Men's Basketball Player of the Year as a senior in 1994–95.

College

Sessoms, a native of Portsmouth, Virginia, played for the Monarchs in nearby Norfolk. He scored 1,985 points (the fourth most in school history at the time), grabbed 779 rebounds and shot 81.9% from the free throw line. In each of his four seasons, Old Dominion qualified for postseason tournaments. These included the 1992 and 1995 NCAA Tournaments as well as the 1993 and 1994 National Invitation Tournaments. Sessoms and teammate Odell Hodge, who was a two-time CAA Player of the Year himself, guided Old Dominion to three straight regular season conference championships (1993–95) as well as two CAA men's basketball tournament championships (1992 and 1995). Sessoms was named the 1995 CAA Player of the Year as well as that year's CAA Tournament MVP behind his team-leading 22.1 points per game and still-standing school record 730 total points. In the first round of that year's NCAA Tournament, Sessoms scored 35 points in a triple-overtime win versus #3 seed and Big East champion Villanova. The Monarchs would go on to lose their next game, however. At the end of the year, Sessoms was also given Honorable Mention All-America status by numerous sports media outlets.

Professional and personal life

After his lauded college career, Sessoms did not get any interest from NBA teams, so he went to Europe to play professional basketball. He spent the next nine years playing for various clubs in Portugal, Belgium, Israel, Iceland, France and Poland. In 2004, he retired from basketball and began working for the United States Postal Service in North Hollywood, California. As of August 2010, he continues to work there as a supervisor. He's married to Bridgette Wright a producer in the entertainment industry and has two sons, Paul “PJ” Sessoms, Jr. and Brixton Sessoms.

References

"Petey Sessoms Player Profile". Doudiz Basket. Archived from the original on March 27, 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2011.
"Star Track: Petey Sessoms". DailyPress.com. July 24, 2004. Retrieved September 18, 2011.
"Player Bio: Petey Sessoms". ODUsports.com. Old Dominion University. Archived from the original on February 26, 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2011.
Caparell, Adam. "Men of the Moment: Catching Up With a Quarter Century of the Tourney's One-Act Wonders". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2011.
"Small Forwards – 1995 Usenet Draft". iBiblio. Retrieved September 18, 2011.