Seton Hall basketball player is also a law student
A basketball player for the Seton Hall Pirates is also a 1L at the university’s law school.
The player, Braeden Anderson, shifted his focus from a possible career in the NBA when he broke his neck in a 2013 car accident, the New York Times reports. Now he is placing more emphasis on academics and hopes to work as a corporate lawyer.
Anderson graduated from Fresno State in three years, using two years of eligibility before this season. He is playing under the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s graduate transfer rule, which allows players with remaining eligibility to transfer with immediate eligibility when seeking a graduate degree in a major not offered by the current school.
A scholarship covers Anderson’s $50,000 law school tuition.
Anderson told the Times he sought refuge in basketball during high school in Canada because of an unstable home life, and transferred to a religious school in the United States in search of better opportunity. A broadcast investigation later alleged Anderson and other players were misled by a coach who created a bogus school with a name similar to that of a nearby school. Recruited by Kansas, he was ruled academically ineligible because of the findings.
Anderson decided to attend Fresno State. After the 2013 accident in a teammate’s truck, he underwent four major operations during a rehabilitation took nine months.
“I realized that people are governed by this narrow-minded vision of what they think people can do,” Anderson told the Times. “I’ve learned to shatter those boundaries.”
