{"id":129620,"date":"2025-09-09T07:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/129620\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T07:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:04:17","slug":"jahenns-manigat-joins-racer-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/129620\/","title":{"rendered":"Jahenns Manigat Joins Racer Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Murray State head men&#8217;s basketball coach <a href=\"https:\/\/goracers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/ryan-miller\/1919\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1919\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Miller<\/a> announced the hiring of <a href=\"https:\/\/goracers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/jahenns-manigat\/1984\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1984\" target=\"_blank\">Jahenns Manigat<\/a>, who joins the Racers for the 2025-26 season as Director of Player Personnel and comes to MSU with experience in the Missouri Valley Conference as a student-athlete at Creighton.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nManigat comes to Murray State with the experience of playing in the Missouri Valley Conference.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;We are excited to welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/goracers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/jahenns-manigat\/1984\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1984\" target=\"_blank\">Jahenns Manigat<\/a> as our Director of Player Personnel for the Murray State Racers,&#8221; said Coach Miller. &#8220;As a captain for Creighton, where he helped secure an MVC regular season championship and two MVC tournament titles, Jahenns brings a proven championship pedigree. His professional playing experience and recent role as a graduate assistant with the Bluejays equip him with deep basketball knowledge and passion. Jahenns&#8217; leadership, work ethic, and ability to connect with players will be crucial as we strengthen our championship culture at Murray State.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m grateful to be a part of this amazing staff and players that we have here at Murray State and many thanks to Coach Miller for this opportunity.&#8221; said Manigat. &#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to using my experiences as a player in The Valley to help coach our team to the goals we are trying to achieve!&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nManigat enjoyed an excellent playing career with the Bluejays from 2010-14 and returned to Creighton in the 2024-25 season as a graduate assistant, where Coach Miller was an assistant.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe first Canadian to play at Creighton, Manigat was honored as team captain three times and named the Bluejays&#8217; Most Inspirational Award in 2014. Manigat finished sixth on the Creighton all-time 3-point basket list with 206 and went on to play 10 seasons as a professional in Austria, Canada, Cyprus, Kosovo, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland and Romania.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nManigat earned a degree in psychology from Creighton in 2014 and earned a communications certificate in 2025.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFollow the Racers on Twitter (@MSURacers), Instagram (@RacersAthletics) and Facebook to stay up-to-date on all that is happening with Murray State Athletics. Follow Murray State men&#8217;s basketball on Twitter and Instagram (@RacersHoops).<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Murray State head men&#8217;s basketball coach Ryan Miller announced the hiring of Jahenns Manigat, who joins the Racers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-129620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}