NCAA Basketball standout turned musician will visit Lincoln College Campus
Henry Domercant to Perform at Free Concert in the Johnston Center Thursday evening

 

[October 04, 2017]  LINCOLN - Henry Domercant, a former standout NCAA basketball player, who also played professional basketball in Europe, will be visiting the Lincoln College campus on Thursday, Oct. 5.

Domercant will visit with Lynx basketball players during the day and then perform a free concert for students and the public that evening.

His visit is part of the ongoing “Excellence in Leadership” series at Lincoln College.

Domercant has recently launched a new career as a Christian rap, hip hop and rhythm and blues artist, with his first album, “Follow the Leader.” He performs under the stage name HD.HighDef and will give a free concert at 7 p.m. on the main stage in the Johnston Center on the Lincoln College campus.

Domercant played basketball at Eastern Illinois University (EIU) under then-coach Rick Samuels, who is now a Senior Development Officer at Lincoln College. At Eastern he was second in NCAA Division I scoring both in the 2001–02 season averaging 26.4 points as a junior, and again as a senior in 2002–03 with an average of 27.9 per game. He is the all-time leading scorer in the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) having scored 2,602 points in his career. At the time of his graduation, he was 30th on the NCAA all-time scoring list.

Domercant was also the 11th player to be in the top five in the country in scoring for three consecutive years and was OVC player of the year in 2003 as well as an Honorable Mention All-American. He played 13 years in Europe and led the Euro league in three-point Field Goal Accuracy for a season.

He grew up in Naperville and attended Naperville North High School, before attending Eastern Illinois University, where he graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor’s Degree in economics. He counts his former youth pastor as one of the greatest influences on his life. He is married and he and his wife, Ally, have two children.

[Mark Gordon
Public Relations and Media Manager
Lincoln College]