Whether it’s the atmosphere in the stadiums or the heated discussions that can occur when it comes to your favorite teams, there’s just something about US college sports. When it comes to these student-athletes it’s more about the athletes than the student (it’s all about winning so some universities have taken a somewhat laid back approach to rules). And for many of the top players, college is just a way to get to the big bucks and get themselves out of sometimes dire social environments. And can you really blame them: they will get paid a lot of money for playing sports. But that doesn’t mean every student-athlete follows that path.
Take Myron Rolle. He’s a star safety at Florida State University and an almost guaranteed first round pick in the NFL draft. But instead of going the usual route and enter, he’s using his Rhodes scholarship to go to Oxford and study medical anthropology. Before that he set up a medical program that encourages kids to lead healthy lifestyles.
He should be applauded for this. Not only does he withstand the pressures that undoubtedly have been put on him to go and chase a career in pro football (he still will enter the draft after his studies), he chooses to do something he thought important and make a career out of it. He pursues the two things he loves and takes full advantage of the offers he gets for the work he has put in. Going after the thing you love to do and try to make it something you can do for the rest of your life is something we should all aspire to.
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