Xavier Clarke
 Image by Pac! | |
| No. 42 – Lorain Firestorm | |
|---|---|
| Position | Bigfur |
| Species | Husky ( Canidae ) |
| Gender | Male |
| Nickname(s) | |
| Frost, Professor X | |
| Personal information | |
| Born |
September 1, 1999 Chicago, IL |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m) |
| Listed weight | 225 lb (102 kg) |
| Shoots | Left-handed |
| Career information | |
| School | Claiborne University |
| FBA draft | 2021 / Round: 1 / Pick: 1st overall |
| Selected by the Edmonton Excavators | |
| Pro playing career | 2021–present |
| Career history | |
| 2021 - 2025 | Edmonton Excavators |
| 2025-Mar. 2026 | Oregon Swashbucklers |
| Mar. 2026 - Present | Lorain Firestorm |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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| Contract information | |
| Contract year | 2023 |
| 2026 Salary | $15 million |
| 2027 Salary | $17 million |
| 2028 Salary | $19 million |
| Player Contacts | |
| (IC) Agent | Hoomiku |
| (OOC) Creator | Hoomiku |
| (OOC) Actor | Unknown |
| (OOC) Usage | Ask me before any use |
Biography
The son of a talented engineer and a baker, Xavier Clarke was originally born in Chicago on August 1, 1998. An early developer, Xavier showed an early interest in mathematics and science. His father fostered a love of all things mechanical in the young canine, and he expressed an interest in potentially becoming an astronaut. This love only grew when, in early 2005, his father received a job offer for a firm in New Orleans which had received a contract to manufacture spacecraft components for the International Space Agency. The family’s move was delayed due to a family medical emergency, however, which proved fortuitous as it meant the delay allowed the family to avoid Hurricane Katrina’s impact on the city. Growing up in New Orleans, the young dog discovered a love for basketball and a talent for the sport due to his love of mathematics helping to find creative new moves that he devoted a fanatical amount of attention to developing. His parents also tried to foster the husky’s love of engineering by encouraging their son’s love of building interesting models and machines when he wasn’t studying or practicing basketball. As he began to grow older, though, Xavier began to notice that his height was a concern for his childhood dream. His family had always been tall, and as he grew past 6 foot 3 inches tall, his long standing desire to fly into space seemed impossible. His parents worried that this would result in their child losing some of the spark they’d seen in him in his youth. It did, in that their quiet son seemed to turn a bit more inward when, as a teen, he measured himself and noticed he was 6’5” tall. Rather than being depressed or glum, though, the young canine threw himself even further into engineering and basketball, deciding to pursue a career as a professional basketball player, or, failing that, a career similar to his father working to design and construct a new generation of spacecraft. Nearby Claiborne University served as a nexus for both of these new dreams for Xavier, as the university had a talented basketball team and a stellar engineering department. He was accepted into Claiborne with ease, as both his talent on the court and his academics has earned him high marks in high school.
Personal life
In contrast to some huskies, Xavier has always been a canine of few words, and can be somewhat stoic and hard to read. Despite his somewhat frosty exterior, he can open up to those he is close to and has a very vivid inner life, he just finds it hard to express himself to others. He’s learned to channel this on the court and has an astonishing poker face. He rarely shows temper and does not argue with officials, to the point where the only time he has done so during his athletic career was a notable episode that caused the official to reevaluate the call. This aids Xavier’s other trait: he can be wickedly sharp in terms of pranks and stunts. Several legendary pranks have occurred in recent years at Claiborne that all bear signatures of the husky’s work, but despite this, he has a solid alibi for every single incident. Those aware of his role in the events know though that, as with everything else he does, he is fanatically serious and always ensures that no matter what, the pranks or stunts won’t hurt anyone and won’t cause any lasting damage. Always.
Hobbies
Is currently involved in the Collegiate Improvised Engineering League in addition to basketball. The CIEL was originally founded in 2000 and is modeled on the format of the television program Scrapheap Challenge, broadcast in the United States as Junkyard Wars. Teams of college students are given one day to build a machine capable of performing a set task made only out of items they can find in a junkyard. Claiborne’s team, the FREDs (“F—ing Ridiculous Engineering Disasters”, a name inspired by the nickname crews bestowed to the C-5 Galaxy) has won the league trophy four years running, having placed near the top of the competition every year it has been held. In 2018, the team took the trophy by constructing an electric car capable of competing in an endurance race, which the FREDs won after racing for 4 hours straight on a single charge in the rain. 2019’s victory was for constructing a barge capable of recovering a car from the bottom of a lake (The Claiborne Explorer which was placed on display in the engineering department). In 2020, the team built a wet sub capable of navigating an underwater obstacle course. In 2021, the team won the trophy for constructing the Claiborne Albatross, a small plane built from scrap that set a new competition speed, distance and altitude record. Xavier, despite being the team captain for two years running, has not bragged about the victories and has merely stated that he joined the team as an interesting hobby when he wasn’t studying or playing basketball.