Army women’s tennis coach Paul Peck and senior football player Andrew Rodriguez have been honored with the 2012 Mike Krzyzewski Teaching Character Through Sport Award.

This marks the sixth time that the U.S. Military Academy has presented the award but just the fourth time corps squad athletes and coaches were eligible to win. The first two awards honored cadets who compete in company athletics and competitive club sports. All three categories received recognition on Thursday.

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Nearly 500 students from nine Wake County middle schools will join Duke University Basketball Coach Mike Krzyzewski at the PNC Arena at 9:30 a.m. Monday, April 23. Coach Krzyzewski will encourage the students to continue reading at an end-of-year Ticket to Reading Rewards rally.

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It’s 1965 on the North Side of Chicago. Living in a poor neighborhood about a mile from the United Center, a high school senior dreams of playing college basketball. With his mother busy scrubbing the floors late at night at the Chicago Athletic Club and his father working as an elevator operator, he looks to a local community center to help him reach his goals. Learning lessons of hard work and determination at the center, the young man springboards into a basketball career at the United States Military Academy. And on to become the winningest coach in the history of Division 1 basketball.

Now it’s 2012 and nine high school seniors, all women, in Durham, North Carolina are dreaming too. Some dream of going into humanitarian aid. Others want to be accountants.

But they all aspire to one day be the first in their families to graduate from college, a dream that The Emily Krzyzewski Center’s Scholars to College program is helping make a reality.

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