Education
Ronaldson attended the Australian Institute of Sport in 1989.
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Tony Ronaldson
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When the Spectres merged with the Southern Melbourne Saints in 1992, Ronaldson was one of the players to be signed to the newly created South East Melbourne Magic. During his time with the Magic, Ronaldson competed in another four Grand Finals including two NBL championships in 1992 and 1996. Ronaldson eventually left the team in 2002.
Ronaldson signed with the Perth Wildcats for 2002-2003 season.
Following the retirement of Ricky Grace, Ronaldson captained the club in 2005-2006, but was replaced by Paul Rogers the following season. Ronaldson left the Wildcats after the 2006-2007 season and signed with the New Zealand Breakers.
Ronaldson ended his NBL career following the 2009-2010 season, finishing with 665 games and averages of 15.3 points, 5.2 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game. Ronaldson has more wins than anyone else in NBL history with 430 victories from his 665 game career at a success rate of 64.66%.
NBL records
Ronaldson"s 665 games leads the NBL for most games played all-time.
He is also the fifth-highest scorer in the NBL with 10,154 points, and also holds the sixth-highest record for defensive rebounds with 2,642.
Achievements
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In addition to his NBL career, Ronaldson represented his country at a national level on numerous occasions including the 1996 Olympic Games (in which he made a spectacular four-point play in the dying seconds against Croatia to give the Boomers a berth in the Bronze medal game), 2004 Olympic Games and the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
Membership
He made his NBL debut in 1990 with the now-defunct Eastside Spectres and was a member of the Spectres Grand Final team that lost to the Perth Wildcats in 1991.
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Australia