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On
the morning of the day when he left Compton High School in Los Angeles,
18-year-old Allan Guei asked seven of his classmates to come together. Guei, a
star on the basketball team, expressed he was giving away he $40,000 he'd won
in a competition and was dividing it among them. The room filled with shouts
and cheers. "Everyone went mad with excitement," he says. "They
were surprised that I would do something like that for them."
In
November 2000, Guei's family moved from the Ivory Coast to the United States,
and he immediately took up basketball." When I first came to California,
the Lakers were winning: it was Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal era (时代),"he recalls." I just fell
in love with the game."
A
few years later, he was playing for the school. Then, in March, he entered a
free-throw competition at the school, and the town saw just how big a team
player Guei really is—both on and off the court (球场).
In
the first round, each of the eight contestants (竞争者) took ten shots, and the top four shooters advanced." I was
one of the final four, but I really didn't shoot that well," Guei says."
I was nervous!"" In the second round, however, he took the winning
shot. He went home with the prize of $ 40,000.
A
few months before Guei left school, he was offered a full scholarship (奖学金) to California State University, and
he had an idea." I could have kept the prize money, but I was already
going to college for free," Guei says. "I know the others were going
to have a lot of difficulty paying for school. They needed it for their
futures, so I just decided to give it away."
Now
wearing No.25 on Northridge's Matadors basketball team, Guei has little time
for anything but training and studying, though he keeps in touch with most of
his classmates." I know those kids. Whatever they decide to do in life is
going to be something good," he says." It was just the right thing to
do."
As
for his own future, Guei is still learning. "I work really hard at
everything I do," he says. "But whatever happens in my future, I'm
just happy that I was able to help somebody else along the way."
