Former Alton High Sensation Ty'Ohn Trimble Has New Home With Harlem Globetrotters

ATLANTA — With the Harlem Globetrotters preparing to mark 100 seasons on the road, the team announced Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026, that it is adding 10 new athletes — six men and four women — to its roster for the 2026 rookie class. One of the athletes is a former Alton High sensation Ty'Ohn Trimble.

The Globetrotters said the group will join returning players as part of “The 100 Year Tour,” the organization’s centennial season. The announcement was made Dec. 3, 2025, in Atlanta, as the team begins training camp at Lakepoint Sports in Cartersville, Georgia, ahead of an official tipoff event at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Dec. 14.

The Globetrotters described Trimble as a 5-foot-7 guard who averaged 8 points per game and 5 assists per game in two seasons at Dillard University after playing two seasons at Parkland College.

In a Riverbender.com interview while in high school at Alton, Trimble described his style of play as “up tempo," and that likely will be the same with the Globetrotters.

“I like to press a lot on defense. I like defense a lot. I just like to run, for real, and get my teammates the ball,” he said in an interview during his Alton High School times.

Keith Dawkins, president of Harlem Globetrotters and Herschend Entertainment Studios, said: “This year we bolstered our player recruitment efforts with the help of a scouting consultant with deep roots across the basketball landscape which resulted in us having a greater presence at important events like NBA Summer League, the NBA Draft Combine, the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament and other facets of the global basketball landscape. All of this activity led to our first-ever open tryout, where these athletes were selected, and we are very proud to welcome them to the Globetrotters for this once-in-a-lifetime Centennial season.”

The team said the rookie class includes players from major Division I conferences, including the Big East, the Northeast Conference, and the Southland Conference, as well as athletes from a variety of HBCU schools and players with international experience. The class also includes freestyler Yoh Iwasaki, whom the Globetrotters described as the organization’s first athlete from Japan and third from Asia.

Trimble played in college and at Parkland in Champaign.

At Parkland College, Trimble earned M-WAC Second Team All-Conference honors as a sophomore in 2018-19, starting all 27 games he appeared in. He led the team with 4.2 assists per game and averaged 9.6 points per game, according to the provided statistics. He ranked third in NJCAA Division II in free-throw percentage at 88.5% and 20th in assist-to-turnover ratio at 2.8.

As a freshman in 2017, he started 20 of 28 games and averaged 4.8 points per game, shooting 51% from the field and 52.3% on 3-pointers.

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