Myron Rolle

New York times
I was looking around on the link to the new York times and who else was on there then the one and only Myron Rolle a Seminole. In case you’ve been living in a cave here on campus Myron won the Rhodes scholarship which is given out to the top academic students throughout the world. If awarded you get to go study at Oxford in England for up to 3 years. It is seen as the most prestigious post graduate scholarship given in the world and one of our own won it and a football player at that. Myron was in the New York times for electing to skip the NFL draft in order to study at Oxford. That’s pretty awesome that a Seminole won that kind of reward and especially when our football players have been involved in numerous incidents this year.
“Rolle said he was told he was projected to go in the top 49 picks in the draft, with the potential to go higher if he ran a strong 40 time in the pre-draft combine”
Whats cool is that it wasn’t like he was going to be a late pick in the NFL draft if he left either, he was going to be in atleast the 2nd round which would have assured him of just around a million dollars next year but instead he choose something that many people would consider more valuable and deffinetly more admirable to do.

http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/rolle-is-heading-to-oxford-not-the-nfl/?hp

I found another blog on the New York Times’ website in reference to the announcement of when he won the award in the first place about one month ago. I think its pretty cool that he’s getting so much positive press from around the nation, he definitely breaks the mold of a stereotypical jock and brings a lot of pride to our school. Congratulations to Myron.