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Article: BACKBOARDS & BLACKBOARDS: THE JUNIOR COLLEGE ROUTE TO THE BIG-TIME.(SPORTS)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- February 29, 1996
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Byline: ED MILLER, STAFF WRITER
Ivan Chappell knew junior college was going to be an academic wake-up call. He just wasn't prepared for what he found when he awoke.
``I hadn't visited, I had just looked at the school on tape,'' Chappell recalled. ``They came and got me, and I fell asleep on the car ride out.
``When I woke up, I thought I was in a ghost town.''
Chappell, who played at Western Branch High, overcame his first impression and went on to graduate from Otero Junior College in La Junta, Colo. Today, he's a starting forward on the Virginia Commonwealth basketball team, a criminal justice major who is on track to graduate.
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