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Post by confuzzled dude Sun Mar 22, 2015 9:16 am

With Maryland clinging to a three-point lead in the final seconds of its NCAA tournament opener, Ram was summoned off the bench for the first time all night. The rarely used reserve promptly disrupted Valparaiso’s last-ditch attempt, allowing the Terps to emerge with a 65-62 victory, and the senior guard to emerge with the highlight of his athletic career.

But Ram — one of just a handful of Indian Americans playing Division I basketball — had no idea about the similar celebrations taking place across the country. Like in Bristol, Conn., where Kevin Negandhi, the first Indian American anchor at ESPN, was watching the replay over and over in a studio.

“I was beaming,” Negandhi said. “I’m obviously a bit older than Varun, but I felt like a proud uncle of sorts. It was like gosh, he’s doing this for so many of us.”
“It’s beyond our understanding,” said his mother, Santhini Ramasamy, a toxicologist for the Environmental Protection Agency with a PhD in biochemistry. “He just took the initiative. No one ever told him anything. It’s just within him.”

After graduating from Clarksville’s River Hill High, Ram spent a year at a boarding school in Massachusetts, trying to increase his odds of playing Division I basketball. That isn’t the path most Indian American kids follow, and Ram said some community members questioned his parents about their son.

“Just do what most Indian kids do, just go study, and your life will be okay,” Ram remembered people saying. “That’s why I’m so happy that my parents have been so great to me, because I think it’s opened people’s eyes. This is more than just a game. You can do so many other things with it. You CAN balance academics and sports.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/varun-rams-shining-moment/2015/03/21/fec49060-d00d-11e4-8c54-ffb5ba6f2f69_story.html

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