Northwestern State University of Louisana

 Alabama state representative and former Northwestern State All-Southland Conference basketball star Dexter Grimsley was inducted into the NSU’s Graduate N Club Hall of Fame as a highlight of the 13^th Annual Demon Basketball Reunion Day.
 
Grimsley ranks among NSU’s all-time leaders in scoring, rebounding, blocked shots, and steals.
 
The 6-foot-6, 241-pound Grimsley, a native of Abbeville, Ala., and graduate of Abbeville High School, was the 1989 Southland Conference Freshman of the Year for coach Dan Bell’s Demons. He was a second-team All-Southland pick as a sophomore, and was co-captain of the NSU squad in each of his last three seasons.
 
In 110 games from 1989-93, Grimsley scored 1,437 points (eighth in school history, a 13.1 average), grabbed 664 rebounds (14^th all-time at NSU) and set the Demons’ career blocks record with 153, a 1.4 per game average.  He now ranks third in blocks behind two players in the NCAA career Top 25, current senior William Mosley (17^th with 421) and D’or Fischer (202 from 2000-02, 25^th in NCAA history).
 
Grimsley is ninth all-time at NSU with 139 career steals, after finishing his career fourth all-time. He posted an impressive 48.9 career shooting percentage (593-1,212).
 
The muscular Grimsley, who bench pressed 410 pounds before his senior season, led Northwestern in rebounding as a freshman and sophomore, and topped the team in blocked shots in each of his last three seasons.
 
He helped limit LSU’s Shaquille O’Neal to 12 points and 7 rebounds in a 73-63 loss to the No. 8-ranked Tigers early in both players’ freshman seasons.
 
During his career, NSU posted 10 of the 15 highest-scoring games in school history at the time, including what still stands as the school record, a 140-51 rout of LeTourneau. He had a single-game career best of 31 points as a junior against Texas-San Antonio and snagged a career-best 15 rebounds against Texas State as a freshman. Twice, he blocked six shots in a game to set what was then the single-game school record.
 
Grimsley, a 1993 NSU graduate in psychology, was elected in 2010 to serve the 85^th District in the Alabama state house. He has been the chief juvenile probation officer for Henry County in south Alabama since 1995.