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Though Duncan was cut from Harvard’s varsity team his freshman year, he pulled all-nighters perfecting his game until he became co-captain of the Harvard varsity team as a senior. He went on to play professional basketball with the Rhode Island Gulls and in Australia with the Eastside Spectres...
...After graduating with a sociology degree from Harvard in 1987 - where he was co-captain of the basketball team - Duncan spent four years playing professional basketball in Australia. (He went Down Under after first trying out for the Boston Celtics.) While in Australia, Duncan also tutored underprivileged students. He was among the friends who played basketball with Obama on Election Day and has played pick-up games with Michael Jordan...
...Harvard-educated, and his Chicago roots run deep. The schools chief grew up in the city's Hyde Park neighborhood, where the Obamas have lived for several years. He went to the same private school the President-elect's daughters attended until recently. After Harvard, where he was co-captain of the basketball team, Duncan spent a year playing the sport in Australia before returning to his hometown in 1992. Within short order, he was garnering national attention for starting an innovative - and successful - public school, Ariel Community Academy. He was tapped by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley...
...compensate for these struggles in scheduling, many athletes in the sciences resort to taking summer classes to free up time during the school year. Miller has utilized this strategy to lighten his engineering course load during season; senior hockey forward and co-captain Kirsten Kester has as well, to make space for her Molecular and Cellular Biology requirement of Organic Chemistry...
...There’s always a huge dilemma trying to schedule [labs], said women's basketball co-captain Niki Finelli, a Psychology concentrator also pursing a pre-medical track. “I can’t remember a time when there wasn’t an overlap—I always had to negotiate with my coach...