Men’s Basketball on the steps of Bartlett Dining Hall (when it used to be a gymnasium), 1919.
All Americans
Taylor and Matt are the epitome of student-athletes. Senior Matt Johnson has been placed in the 2012 Capital One Academic All-America NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Team. He’s a Law, Letters and Society major and a three-time University Athletic Association All-Academic Recognition Award recipient, and his game-winning 3-point shot over Emory was featured on ESPN SportsCenter’s Top 10 Plays of the Night. It was awesome. He recently accepted a position with Teach for America.
Senior Taylor Simpson has been selected to the 2012 Capital One Academic All-America NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Team. She is a visual arts and pre-med major who has also garnered University Athletic Association All-Academic Recognition accolades each of the past three years. She spent the summer before her junior year teaching visual arts to children in Varanasi, India, and earlier this year was accepted into the Teach for America program. Taylor also has an awesome profile on UChicago’s homepage!
#gomaroons
Derrick Davis Dunks
The UChicago Basketball team has moves and Derrick (Class of 2014) can prove it.
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Did you watch ESPN’s Top Ten Plays on SportsCenter last night? If you did, you would have seen LeBron James, Dwayne Wade…and this Matt Johnson shot. With one amazing last-second move last night, Matt gave the Maroons a win over Emory and broke UChicago and UAA records with 49 points for the game.
Seriously, go Maroons!
Basketball Youth Day
On Saturday at Ratner Gym, more than 100 neighborhood kids got to meet the (much taller) UChicago men’s and women’s basketball teams. Youth Day was hosted by the Department of Physical Education & Athletics and UChicago’s Neighborhood Schools Program. So. Cute.
Photos by Hans Glick (‘14)
Taylor Simpson: Quite the Scholar-Athlete
“Simpson, a visual arts major from suburban Kansas City, intends to become a surgeon. But she will spend the first two years after graduation with Teach for America. She founded the University of Chicago chapter of Global Brigades, a student-led global health and sustainable development organization. Just before her sophomore year, she helped procure $200,000 of medicine and worked for a week at rural medical clinics in Honduras.”
Read the Chicago Trib article here, and learn more about becoming a scholar-athlete yourself, here.
