18-year-old gives his $40,000 scholarship to other teens
Allan Guei, 18, was a star basketball player at Compton High School in the Los Angeles area before he graduated last month. He also had a GPA above 3.0, and his good grades made him eligible for an unusual competition: A free-throw contest in the Compton High gymnasium. The top prize: $40,000 in scholarship money.
Guei, whose parents immigrated to the United States from the Ivory Coast, knew how much that financial aid could mean for his family. So he was feeling a fair share of pressure as students and teachers crushed into the gym to watch Guei and seven other randomly selected, academically successful students make foul shots. Guei won the free-throw contest by one basket and netted the $40,000.
But it’s what he did next that’s truly astonishing.
(reporting from Laura T. Coffey via TODAY.com)
