Read "What My Sport Taught Me: Retired NBA Player and Colgate Star Adonal Foyle"

HAMILTON -- Former Colgate men's basketball All-American and NBA star Adonal Foyle has been featured in the NCAA's "After the Game" series. 

Foyle discusses how his Colgate education laid the groundwork for his life after basketball. Foyle is the founder and president of two nonprofit organizations, Democracy Matters and the Kerosene Lamp Foundation. Foyle left Colgate as the Raiders' second all-time leading scorer with 1,776 points and leading rebounder with 1,103. At the time of his graduation, Foyle was the NCAA all-time blocked shot leader with 492. He was selected as the eighth overall pick in the 1997 NBA draft. 

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What My Sport Taught Me: Retired NBA Player and Colgate Star Adonal Foyle
Courtesy of NCAA; By Adonal Foyle as told to Kayci Mikrut

The idea of the student-athlete was a very sacred thing to me. I think that duality is so important. An education is something you're going to have for the rest of your life, and it's important to support and cherish that. Education is about how you evolve as a person and create opportunities for yourself and your family. I had an opportunity to leave Colgate early, and I did, but going back and graduating was important because of the role academics have always played in my life.

Getting my master's in psychology was my reaction to how I viewed the sporting world and how I wanted to impact that. And then I got my MBA and my honorary doctorate in humane letters. Those degrees are important because it really spells out this idea that education is a lifelong mission, that there is no timeline. It's something that will define your life until you're no longer living.

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