Quincy Heflin – Class of 2005

Quincy was called “The Renaissance Man” by the Dayton Daily News for being a noted musician, student and athlete. During his years at Stivers School for the Arts, he was the first-chair bass trombonist in the jazz band that took top honors in the 2004 Berklee College of Music competition in Boston.

He was one of the select group of Stivers musicians who performed with the Sarajevo orchestra in Bosnia. He carried a 4.32 GPA (on a 4.0 scale) and took honors classes in government, biology, literature, calculus and band.

Quincy was an All-City, All-Area and All-Southwest Ohio First Team basketball player. He was Special Mention on the State Division III basketball team. Heaveraged 21.5 points a game his senior year. He was one of the top 3 point shooters in the area shooting almost 50% from the arc. He scored more than 30 points in several games with a high of 39 against Tri-County North his junior year.

His coach, Carlos Roberts, who coached 5 City League championships at Colonel White and saw his share of pure shooters said that Quincy was “the purest shooter that he had ever been around”. Quincy excelled as a “Renaissance Man” and a maestro on and off the court.

After high school, Quincy moved to Huntsville, Alabama where he attended Alabama A&M University and received an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in manufacturing. He graduated Summa CumLaude with a 4.0 GPA. He also earned a Master’s Degree from Penn State University in Supply Chain Management.

After college, he began and spent much of his professional career with the Operation Management function residing in Houston, Texas. He is currently a plant manager for a manufacturer of electronic packaging products for the embedded systems market in Atlanta, Georgia.

Quincy married his beautiful wife, Dara in 2019. They have a son, Ian and daughter Ellie. Basketball will always be his first love, but family has since stolen and currently occupies his heart.

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