He earned a bachelor's in mathematics in May 2012, a master's in mathematics a year later, and has been working on a second master's degree in math education - all while maintaining a perfect 4.0 GPA. He was a three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree and a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar.
Urschel has taught college-level courses Integral Vector Calculus and Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry and has had several research papers published, including "Instabilities of the Sun-Jupiter-Asteroid Three Body Problem" in the journal Celestial Mechanics and Dynamic Astronomy and "A Space-Time Multigrid Method for the Numerical Valuation of Barrier Options" in the journal Communications in Mathematical Finance.
I’ve read about him in the past. He’s the real deal.
Canisius High School ‘09
Buffalo, NY
Impressive young man.
Y’all will be back before you know it.
I worked at the college level for decades and saw the athletes rewarded as much as the scholars. I never did "get it" because I thought that the scholars would benefit our society more than the athlete. I still think this way. I never did tell my colleagues how I thought. It was heresy.
I think this young student athlete deserves the kudos because of his brain, not his brawn. The former will give him a better quality of life that his brawn.
Our older male P.E. teachers all wore their war wounds but they all had their M.A. degrees. THAT was more impressive to me.
Men and women collegians who become professional athletes make way too much money and almost always wind up as cripples in their forties.
I always asked my co-workers, the men, if it was worth it. Some days they said YES and some days they said NO. It depended on how much they hurt that day.