section_path: Early life
section_name: Early life
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  Gilgeous-Alexander was born in Toronto, Ontario, and grew up in nearby Hamilton. His mother, Charmaine Gilgeous, is a former track athlete, who competed in the women's 400 metres for Antigua and Barbuda at the 1992 Summer Olympics. His father, Vaughn Alexander (also of Antiguan descent), played high school basketball, winning a Toronto city championship while attending Georges Vanier Secondary School in the early 1990s. Gilgeous-Alexander's father coached him as a youth. He began high school in Hamilton at St. Thomas More Catholic Secondary School before switching to Sir Allan MacNab Secondary School. He then moved to the United States, transferring to Hamilton Heights Christian Academy in Chattanooga, Tennessee, for his junior and senior years to improve his basketball skills, graduating in 2017.
  
  Gilgeous-Alexander was born in Toronto, Ontario, and grew up in nearby Hamilton. His mother, Charmaine Gilgeous, is a former track athlete, who competed in the women's 400 metres for Antigua and Barbuda at the 1992 Summer Olympics. His father, Vaughn Alexander (also of Antiguan descent), played high school basketball, winning a Toronto city championship while attending Georges Vanier Secondary School in the early 1990s. Gilgeous-Alexander's father coached him as a youth. He began high school in Hamilton at St. Thomas More Catholic Secondary School before switching to Sir Allan MacNab Secondary School. He then moved to the United States, transferring to Hamilton Heights Christian Academy in Chattanooga, Tennessee, for his junior and senior years to improve his basketball skills, graduating in 2017.