While many know that Trevon Hughes is a Queens point guard who spent a few years at a Wisconsin High School, few know the whole story. I can say that I am a pretty avid Badger fan and was a little awed and inspired when reading Hughes' story in the NY Daily News.
Hughes was able to defy all odds and stay out of the trouble that most in his crowd he hung with in Queens had to deal with. As a 14 year old through talking to his AAU coach and his mother, Hughes decided to leave the streets of Queens and give a military school in Wisconsin a try. Hughes says, "he was tricked," but through some inspiring words from his grandpa, he decided to listen to his mother and go to St. John's Military Academy in Delafield.
Despite hating his new military life the Queens' boy understood his future was more important and this was his way of accomplishing his dream. Now this is a wonderful story that hopefully for Badger fans can end in a Final Four!
His uniform is missing a button.
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