Education
Fernandez graduated in 2000 from Holy Redeemer High School in Detroit.
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Fernandez graduated in 2000 from Holy Redeemer High School in Detroit.
He was on the basketball and track and field teams. He played with the basketball team of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan in the 2002-2003 season. At Aquinas, Fernandez also played long jump with the indoor track and field team in his freshman season (2000-2001),
In 2005 shortly before Tony became a professional he had a brief stint with the After winning the dunk contest offered by And 1 in the summer of 2005 in Detroit, Tony got offered a tryout with the He then proceeded to make the team
Two months after he joined And 1 he signed his contract with the Campeche Bucaneros thus leaving And 1.
In 2013 Tony began serving as an advisor to a Detroit startup company called The company develops software for sports teams to help them calculate advanced statistics typically only found on professional levels of play. In a 2013 Crains Detroit Article by Amy Haimerl, one of products HoopMetrics, which is a basketball statistics program for the iPhone and iPad has nearly 750 monthly subscribing teams using the appendix
According to the article the purpose of HoopMetrics is to try to replicate the effect SaberMetrics had for baseball.