Pick one category for the following text. The options are - company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work. Jim Bredar - James A. Jim Bredar (October 22 1931 August 28 1997) was an NCAA All-American basketball player at the University of Illinois during a career that spanned from 1949 to 1953 and then was drafted by the Ft. Wayne Pistons of the National Basketball Association in the 1953 draft
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