Education
Auriantal first attended Dawson College in Westmount, Quebec, like his brother Ralph.
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Manix Auriantal
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A native of Montreal, Quebec, Auriantal has played for several teams from his hometown since graduating from the New York Institute of Technology in 2004. He has represented Rwanda in international competition, and played for them at the AfroBasket 2007. He then transferred to the Globe Institute of Technology in New York City in the United States.
After one year, he began attending NYIT in the same city, where he played his final two seasons of basketball.
Auriantal played with the Montreal Matrix of the American Basketball Association (American Bar Association) from 2005 to 2006. On February 4, 2006, he was named American Bar Association Player of the Week.
Later that month, he was named to the 2006 All-Star Game along with former National Basketball Association All-Star Tim Hardaway. Auriantal began competing for British Columbia Körmend of the Nemzeti Bajnokság I/A in Hungary in 2008.
On October 18, he made his debut and scored a season-best 17 points vs EnterNet-Normas Tecnológicas de la Edificación. The guard moved to the Montreal Jazz of the National Basketball League of Canada (NBL) for the 2012-2013 season.
He posted a season-high 36 points in a loss to the London Lightning on December 7, 2012 and, by the end of the season, led the league in steals, averaging 2.15 per game. Auriantal studied business while at the New York Institute of Technology for his final two years of college. However, he returned to Montreal after graduating.
His mother, Emilie Louissaint, said, "He wanted to come home to his mother." Manix has three brothers that have also played professional basketball at a relatively high level
Ralph, Hennssy, and Rodwins, all played college basketball on a scholarship in the United States and earned a degree, like Manix. He said, "I"d say Hennssy was the best, then Ralph would come second, then Rodwins and me last.
They just didn"t have the chances I had, that"s all. But at a physical level, the level of understanding of the game, they were all better than medical " Hennssy attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison and played with the Badgers for four seasons and was named Academic All-Big Ten Conference.
Membership
He is currently a member of the coaching staff with the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I team Jackson State.
