Louisiana Tech's Olu Ashaolu has three brothers, Steve, John and Sam -- this per the LA Tech athletics site. We don't have 100% confirmation but the coincidences are too similar for the John Ashaolu mentioned in the following story to not be Olu's brother-- John Ashaolu also has a master's degree from Duquesne. But this article is all about Sam, another brother:
Ashaolu graduates from DuquesneGo here for the remainder.
Associated Press
December 16, 2009
PITTSBURGH -- Fittingly, Sam Ashaolu was standing on the court at a pregame shootaround, wearing his Duquesne University basketball sweats, when he received the best news of his life.
The former player who has inspired a college campus with his determination to graduate despite being the most seriously wounded of the five Duquesne basketball players shot in September 2006 will receive his college diploma on Thursday.
Ashaolu nearly died of head wounds in the horrific shootings that followed a dance, rocking an urban campus that had just been chosen as one of the nation's safest.
He needed multiple operations to save his life, endured seizures and recurring hospital stays and, months after his recovery was underway, was told he couldn't play again because it was too risky to remove bullet fragments lodged in his brain...
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