Nicholas Kay

Fast Facts

Sport: Basketball
Event: Men's Basketball
Olympic History: Tokyo 2020
Year Born: 1992
State Born: NSW

About Nick

Nick Kay had nothing short of a spectacular US college career with the Denver’s Metropolitan State University (MSU) in Colorado.

In his four years there while he studied biology, Nick played alongside future Boomers teammate Mitch McCarron to help the Roadrunners to four consecutive NCAA tournaments as well as a runners-up finish in 2013.

He finished his time at MSU in 2015 with the second-most free throws made (449), games played (114), and minutes (3,969) in in Roadrunners history.

Following the end of his college career, Nick returned to Australia to play for the Townsville Crocodiles in the NBL. He averaged 10.8 points and 6.7 rebounds in his debut season to be named the NBL Rookie of the Year.

In 2016 he moved to the Illawarra Hawks and set off to the Perth Wildcats in 2018, where he won his first NBL title in 2019 against Melbourne United. In the same season he made the All-NBL First Team.

Nick was also part of the 2018 Commonwealth Games gold-medal winning side with an 87-47 win over Canada in the final.

He is one of four players to have played the most FIBA World Cup qualifiers for the Boomers (10 games). In 2019 he was part of the Boomers line-up that lost 95-88 to Spain in the semi-finals of the 2019 FIBA World Cup in China.

At the 2019 Australian Basketball Hall of Fame awards night, Nickwas recognised alongside Nathan Sobey with the 2019 Gaze Family Medal for their performances in China and on the Gold Coast.

Then at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics (in 2021) Nick and the Boomers lifted Australia to the bronze medal, defeating Slovenia in the bronze medal match 107-93.

He helped achieved our nation's first men's basketball Olympic medal since Australia made its men's basketball Olympic debut in 1956.

Nick played in all six games for the Boomers and averaged 11 points, 6.3 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.2 steals in 27.9 minutes per game.