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From My Seat, is a book written to allow college basketball fans to learn how a top notch college program is run. The 2008-2009 Final Four Season for the UConn Huskies was one full of ups and downs, and one that I will never forget. As a team manager for the Huskies from 2005-2009, I was able to work with high profile players and coaches and see the likes of Rudy Gay and Hasheem Thabeet develop into great NBA prospects. I have learned to deal with the different personalities of these people on such a diverse team on a day to day basis.

This Connecticut Husky team, headed by Patriarch and Hall of Fame Head Coach Jim Calhoun, is a family. The players are brothers as they deal everyday with the difficult and demanding schedule of being a college basketball player.

What started out as a personal journal in the beginning of the 2008 school year eventually turned into a book, which allows fans of college basketball to take a peek into the every day life of a UConn Husky. I am proud of the fact that I was able to complete this project and share it with the college basketball landscape. I'm appreciative to the people who supported me throughout including and most importantly, my family.

This is a positive book on the Connecticut Huskies, an easy task for me to write about as the UConn program instills life changing experiences and positive opportunities for its players and managers. This is a feeding program to the NBA. Players come to Connecticut, knowing that the school's greatest selling point, Jim Calhoun, can help develop them into making it to that next level.

I am appreciative of the basketball knowledge that I was able to gather from being around these basketball geniuses, but more importantly for the life lessons I have garnered throughout my four years as a manager.