Ryan Lexer (ראין לקסר; born March 15, 1976) is an

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former basketball player. He played the

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and

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positions. He played in the

Israeli Basketball Premier League Ligat HaAl ( he, ליגת העל, lit., ''Supreme League or Premier League''), or the Israeli Basketball Premier League, is the top-tier level league of professional competition in Israeli club basketball, making it Israel's primary basketball ...

in 1998 to 2008.

Biography

Lexer is from

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, where he attended

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, and is Jewish. He is 6' 9" (204 cm) tall. He attended

Towson University Towson University (TU or Towson) is a public university in Towson, Maryland. Founded in 1866 as Maryland's first training school for teachers, Towson University is a part of the University System of Maryland. Since its founding, the university ...

('97), and played for the

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from 1994 to 1998. In 1996-97 Lexer was 10th in the

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in free throw percentage, at .743. Lexer played basketball for Team USA in the

1997 Maccabiah Games The 15th Maccabiah Games are remembered for being marred by a bridge collapse that killed several participants. The Maccabiah had more than 5,000 athletes from 33 countries competing in 36 sports. New sports for the Games included beach volleybal ...

. He played in the

in 1998 to 2008, for

Hapoel Holon Hapoel Holon Basketball Club ( he, מועדון הכדורסל הפועל חולון), known for sponsorship reasons as Hapoel Atsmon Playgrounds Holon (), is a professional basketball club based in Holon, Israel. The team plays in the Israeli ...

Hapoel Jerusalem Hapoel Jerusalem is a sport organization in Jerusalem as a local branch of the Hapoel movement. The branch was established in the 1920s and represents the city in more sports than any other sport organization in Jerusalem. Today, the club's leadi ...

, Maccabi Hadera,

Maccabi Haifa Maccabi Haifa ( he, מכבי חיפה) is one of the biggest sports clubs in Israel and a part of the Maccabi association. It runs several sports clubs and teams in Haifa which have competed in a variety of sports over the years, such as Footbal ...

, and Maccabi Petach Tikvah. As of 2020 Lexer was Head of Sales and Business Development at KIDOZ Inc.

References

External links

Facebook page"Keeping online safe with Ryan Lexer of Kidoz,"
podcast, June 5, 2018. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lexer, Ryan 1976 births Living people 21st-century American Jews American men's basketball players Basketball players from Pennsylvania Centers (basketball) Competitors at the 1997 Maccabiah Games Hapoel Holon players Hapoel Jerusalem B.C. players Israeli men's basketball players Israeli people of American-Jewish descent Jewish American sportspeople Jewish Israeli sportspeople Jewish men's basketball players Maccabiah Games basketball players of the United States Maccabi Haifa B.C. players Power forwards (basketball) Sportspeople from Philadelphia Towson Tigers men's basketball players