FSU's Myron Rolle may miss the Noles November 22nd game with Maryland, for an interview. It's not the usual police interview that FSU players have to prepare for, it's an interview to be Rhodes Scholar. Rolle has been notifed that he is a finalist for one of 32 spots to study at Oxford University next year. Rolle, a 3.75 pre-med student who finished his undergrad degree in two-and-a-half years, received an e-mail notifying him that he'd been named a Rhodes finalist.
Quotes from SI.com:
"I was disappointed about losing the [Georgia Tech] game," said Rolle, "but the news about the Rhodes Scholarship lifted my spirits."
"I definitely couldn't miss that game. I wouldn't do that to my teammates."
On Wednesday, however, Rolle told me: "I'm definitely going to Birmingham.
"The more I do mock interviews here at school and think about what I want to say [to the committee], I have grown to really want to be a Rhodes Scholar," said Rolle. "If it takes missing a game, that's what it takes."
Rolle, the youngest of five brothers from Galloway, N.J., and the son of two academic-minded Bahamian immigrants, has had his sights set on a career in medicine since middle school.
Were he fortunate enough to attend Oxford, his goal is to "study medical anthropology with some of the greatest minds in the world." The knowledge he'd gain from that field, which examines the social and cultural aspects of medicine, would go a long way toward his ultimate goal of building clinics in the Bahamas and around the world.
Again, this is a football player we're talking about.
"I always talked about being a Rhodes Scholar, but it was just so distant at the time. I didn't think of the magnitude of the award," said Rolle. "Now that it's possibly three weeks away, it has hit me."
Hopefully the NCAA and FSU and ESPN will promote this as much as they do the BCS and GameDay. I doubt it, fans aren't real interested in hearing about athletes who use their free education to, you know, get an education. It's amazing story and I am grateful that I read it.
6 comments:
good for him, that's awesome!! best of luck!!
ESPN will promote this as much as they do the BCS and GameDay.
awwwwww thanks for thinkin of us, i'll pass it along ;0
I hope they do, the kid deserves it. Anyone who can play big-time college football with all the time it takes up plus finish a pre-med degree in under 3 years...promote the hell out of that kid.
Will they ESPN have any issues because it was an SI.com's Stewart Mandel who wrote the article and interviewed Rolle?
why? SI isn't the only interviewer in town!
no they aren't but I never know the personality issues/conflicts these guys or gals have with each other.
HA, none here darlin ;0
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