Every basketball player is looking for a big break. When Evan Bailey got his, though, it was a little disappointing. A compound fracture in his femur wasn’t exactly the break the seventh grader had been hoping for.
It did, however, lead to a breakthrough: It was during his rehabilitation that he realized what he wanted to do with his life. Shrugging off his childhood dream of being a zookeeper, Bailey decided he wanted to become an orthopedic surgeon.
“My surgeon walked me through every step of the process and really helped my comeback,” recalls Bailey, who recovered from his injury and returned to the basketball court better than ever. “Since then, I wanted to be like him. I want to help kids the same way he helped me.”
Fast forward to the end of his senior year at Jackson High School in Canton, Ohio, and Bailey had set a handful of school records, including the all-time career leader in three-pointers made (166) and three-pointers made in a single game (8). He also had a 4.6 GPA and offers to attend Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Miami of Ohio, Kent State and Toledo. After much thought, however, he chose the Honors College at the College of Charleston.
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