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Sports payed off for the Vandeweghe family, with Kiki earning a basketball and Tauna a swimming scholarship...
Last year, while Kiki played in his final and most successful season of collegiate basketball, Tauna took a year off from school to prepare for the Olympics. After moving to Philadelphia to swim once again with Haines, who by then had gone to Foxcatcher Swim Club, she saw her year go down the drain when the U.S. decided to boycott the Moscow games...
...Even if pro basketball had been my first choice. I never would have accepted their offer--it wasn't even in the ballpark. This coupled with my desire to go to law school caused me to turn down the contract and that led to the subsequent breakdown in communications." Kiki recalled...
...before applying to law school, Kiki needed one final quarter for his degree in economics; a conscientious student, Vandeweghe had lost a quarter when he had played basketball in China on a U.S. diplomatic mission...
Last December, while nearing the end of his final quarter, and no longer juggling academics with a heavy practice schedule, Kiki was ready to breeze through exams when he got the news that Dallas had traded him to Denver for future draft choices. Hours later he was on a plane to the mile-high city, and that night he played his first game in the pros against the Dallas Mavericks...