VIDEO: URI Awards Senior Basketball Walk-On and Classical Grad Leviton With Full Scholarship
Friday, September 07, 2018
Hard work really does pay off.
University of Rhode Island Men's Basketball senior -- and walk-on -- Will Leviton was awarded with a full-athletic scholarship this week, in a videotaped announcement with his teammates -- and mom -- in attendance.
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Head Coach David Cox praised Leviton's role with the team in the video.
"We have an awesome team here," said Cox. "There's an individual in here who gets zero recognition and is probably one of the hardest working individuals I've been around in my 20 years in coaching."
Cox then went on to announce Leviton, for his senior year, would be getting a "complete, in-state, athletic-related scholarship."
Leviton was then joined by his mom.
"My mom, she's a single mother. She had to work two jobs, she put me through Catholic school, public school, high school," said Leviton. "The one thing she always told me was to always work hard, and that if you do the right thing, God will see it all."
"When I came here out of high school, I didn't believe I was going to play basketball again. No one recruited me," said Leviton.
Now, four years later, he's got a full ride.