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Message: [QUOTE="Melancer46, post: 445399, member: 1674"] I'm currently a junior at Syracuse with a double major in Whitman and a minor in Psychology. I grew up in Rochester, so the closest thing we had to a pro basketball team was the Syracuse Orange. My dad took me to my first game the year we won the championship (Syracuse vs. Boston College). From that day on, I was hooked. Josh Pace was my favorite player (although my dad bought me a Kueth Duany jersey to wear to the games). The other game I went to that I distinctly remember was the Pittsburgh game when the fans rushed the court 2 or 3 times. My dad happened to work with Jim Boeheim's niece or something like that so he was able to get us tickets sitting with Gerry McNamara's family. Basically, from that day on, I dreamed of being the point guard at Syracuse, but as I worked my way through high school, it started to become clearer to me that that wasn't going to happen (although I honestly think I could make the team as a walk-on, but I'd rather focus on my grades and just enjoying college than sacrificing the amount of time it would take to ride the bench). I ended up writing about this in an essay when I applied for a scholarship at Syracuse (not the walk-on part, just the dream of playing for Syracuse and how badly I wanted to go there). Anyways, my family isn't very well-off, so when it came to applying for college, I applied to UAlbany, Buffalo, SUNY Fredonia, and then Syracuse and Boston College just to see if I got in. I ended up being accepted to UAlbany and got a scholarship so it was extremely affordable for my family, so I basically settled into the idea that I was going there (which was cool, because my best friend from high school was also going there). And then one night, when I was out to dinner with my friends, my parents called me and when I answered the phone, all I could hear was my mom sobbing. I asked them what was going on and since my mom couldn't speak, my dad told me that I had been accepted to Syracuse and that I had gotten a scholarship that would cover the full tuition, basically making it cheaper for me to go to Syracuse than it was for my brother to go to SUNY Fredonia. And that's how I ended up here. Been a big fan ever since that first game in the championship year, and now I can proudly say that I will graduate in a year and be an SU Alum. [/QUOTE]

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