Word: iannuzzi
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Iannuzzi was not deterred, and he spent the year playing semi-pro football with the Edmonton Huskies while taking correspondence classes...
...Athletically, I wouldn’t trade the semi-pro year,” Iannuzzi says. “I got to do an internship where I was managing a restaurant...I think the real world experiences are where I gained the most. The jobs I had, the people I met, the connections I made...
...remember I was on a trip in Mexico with some friends and to embarrass me, some of my friends started telling people around that I might be going to Harvard,” Iannuzzi says. “Random people, who didn’t even know English, knew what Harvard was, so I knew right away that it wasn’t just number one for me, it was number one for everyone...
...Iannuzzi once again sent in an application to Harvard, and again he was disappointed. This time, he was directed to Western Reserve Academy, a prep school in Ohio, and told to reapply the next year. But Iannuzzi stayed determined, and spent the year building up his academic profile...
...Through those three years of trying to get in, [Crimson coach Tim Murphy] believed in me the whole time,” Iannuzzi says. “Not only helping me to get in in terms of [getting] on people in admissions, he told me what to do in terms of, ‘Take this in school, try to better yourself in this aspect.’ He believed in me this whole time and never gave up. And it never crossed my mind to give...