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LORETTO, Pa. (Feb. 26, 2015) – On Sunday, March 22 at 7 p.m., the Saint Francis University Student-Athlete Development department and Flash Focus present Myron Rolle as its featured speaker.
 
A scholar, athlete, and philanthropist, Rolle will be speaking at SFU's Maurice Stokes Athletic Center brought to you by the NCAA Student Opportunity Fund.
 
Here is some very detailed background information about Myron:
 
Myron Rolle was born on October 30th, 1986 in Houston, Texas to Whitney and Beverly Rolle of Nassau, Bahamas. He was raised in Galloway, New Jersey alongside his four older brothers (Marchant, Marvis, Mordecai, and McKinley, yet spent each late spring and summer of his formative years in Nassau. Mr.
 
Rolle earned the Watkins Award – presented to the top black male student athlete in the US. He maintained a 4.0 grade point average throughout high school at The Hun School of Princeton and was rated by ESPN as the #1 football recruit in the US in 2006.
 
He selected Florida State University where he later became an Academic All-American, Academic All-ACC, Associated Press Football All-American, Lott Trophy Finalist and BET Male College Athlete of the Year in 2008. Mr. Rolle graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BS in Exercise Science for Pre-Med in just 2.5 years. Upon undergraduate graduation, Mr. Rolle won the coveted Cecil J. Rhodes Scholarship and earned the MSc in Medical Anthropology from Oxford University in 2009.
 
Mr. Rolle returned to the US in 2010 and was drafted into the National Football League by the Tennessee Titans - one of only three people in history to ever be a Rhodes Scholar and NFL player. He finished his playing career three years later with the Pittsburgh Steelers and is now enrolled at Florida State University College of Medicine to become a neurosurgeon.
 
Outside of academia and sport, Mr. Rolle is the chairman of the Myron L. Rolle Foundation, which serves the underserved in areas of health, wellness and education in the US and around the world. The Myron L. Rolle Foundation currently hosts the Myron Rolle Wellness and Leadership Academy for underserved foster children, Rhodes to Success - an academic workshop for at-risk teenagers, and Our Way to Health - an anti-obesity program for American Indians of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Navajo, Hopi and Pueblo tribes.
 
Mr. Rolle's future project, and most ambitious, includes aiding the medical infrastructure of Exuma - the birthplace of his maternal and paternal grandparents - by creating a free health clinic in Steventon.
 
He is a member of the President Clinton Global Initiative Lead team, which has traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda on humanitarian efforts. He is the youngest ever Board of Trustee at Hampden Sydney College (VA). He is a member of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. He has testified before the United States Senate Commerce Committee on College Athletics.
 
He was appointed by the State of Florida Speaker of the House to the Florida Health Choices Board of Directors, which advocates for health insurance coverage for all Floridians. Perhaps most augustly, Mr. Rolle is featured on a Bahamian national commemorative Independence Day stamp, which celebrates his Rhodes Scholarship accomplishment.