It didn’t take long for Hookfin to break the news to his parents, who were in attendance for the game and stayed afterwards to see their son. The revelation might have had a delayed impact on Hookfin himself, but the emotions were more immediate for his family members.
“It has a huge impact on me financially. … With basketball I’m not able to have a job, so I’ve had to do a lot of saving of my own money over the past years and years, a lot of budgeting and a lot of saying no to going out and eating and saying no to a lot of things just so I can budget and do my own expenses so I can survive,” Hookfin said. “This has helped me and my family out tremendously, so I’m very, very thankful.
“I said if I’m going to continue playing basketball, it’s going to have to be at a major university, because it takes a lot of time and energy to prepare for med school, and I wanted to make sure that if I was taking my time away from preparing for med school, I wanted it to be worth it,” Hookfin said. “There was no major offers coming out of high school, and then I only applied to Ohio State growing up.
“Harrison’s a good athlete. He’s really improved his skill, but he’s always kind of been a good athlete. He’s really, really worked with our strength coach to become the best version, athletically, of himself, so he can handle his own in practice, for sure. He’s a 6-5 kid who can kind of throw his body around.
“We have a great group of guys. That’s one thing that I’ve really noticed in my time here, that our coaching staff really recruits a good group of guys, and we get excited for each other when good things happen,” Hookfin said. “We have a really good, loving community, like when one person wins, the whole team wins. That’s something the coaching staff has really driven home.”
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