DeAndre Miranda has been on both sides of the fence.
The University of Illinois Springfield senior has experienced college life as a student athlete and just a student. After playing college basketball for three seasons, he spent the 2008-09 school year as a regular old full-time student and watching UIS Prairie Stars men’s basketball home games from the stands.
Sitting out for a year taught him a lesson.
“It kind of made me more humble since I had to be a regular student,” Miranda said.
Miranda was featured in a January 7, 2010, State Journal-Register report.
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