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At ÂÒÂ×Ç¿¼é:

• Two-time captain for the baseball team
• Carried a .349 average, hitting five doubles, two triples, a team-best three home runs, and 24 RBIs, and scored 22 runs and stole 16 bases in the 1985 season
• Named to the 1985 First Team College Division Academic All-American Baseball Team, the first person in ÂÒÂ×Ç¿¼é baseball history to do so
• Rhodes Scholar candidate and a member of Phi Beta Kappa

Post-Graduate:

• Attended the School of Medicine and Dentistry at ÂÒÂ×Ç¿¼é after being accepted into medical school as a sophomore
• Graduated from medical school in 1988 and underwent general surgical training and urologic surgical training
• Decided to pursue thoracic surgery and is now a world-renowned surgeon and clinical researcher, giving hundreds of visiting lectures and presentations
• Currently a professor and Chief of Thoracic Surgery at the University of Alabama Birmingham
• Has recently been elected President of the Southern Thoracic Surgery Association
• Lives in Indian Springs, Alabama with his three children, also avid baseball players