Augusta University Basketball player accounting for his future

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Along with being the all-time assists chief within the historical past of the Augusta College Males’s Basketball program, one level guard is a graduate scholar, who has earned his bachelor’s diploma in Accounting and is on tempo to graduate together with his Grasp’s in Enterprise Administration.

“I all the time appreciated math rising up, so math was cool to me, after which I actually go into cash. So I simply felt like accounting was a very good area to enter,” mentioned Tyree Myers, student-athlete.

Myers believes being a student-athlete has helped him higher put together for his future. Partially due to all of the obligations he has to juggle every day.

“You battle adversity all the time, so that you’re used to it. So, when sure conditions come about in the true world, once we become older, it’s like, I’m used to it. I can battle adversity, I battle adversity all the time,” mentioned Myers.

When he’s not tallying up assists and serving to the Jaguars win video games, Myers is interning for an accounting agency proper right here in Augusta.

“I’m mainly doing the whole lot an accountant does, it’s simply I’ve just a little assist with it. I’m studying as I am going. So, that’s undoubtedly going to assist me in the long term,” mentioned Myers.

Being on the basketball staff has its brilliant spots, nonetheless, their journey schedule for street video games could make sustaining a piece schedule extra sophisticated.

Augusta College Head Males’s Basketball Coach Dip Metress mentioned, “Tyree’s working 18 hours per week. So, we’re speaking about getting back from a street recreation at one o’clock within the morning on Wednesday, and he’s going to work on Thursday morning. That’s not enjoyable, that’s not straightforward.”

Myers’s 610 profession assists and counting, make him the all-time help chief in Peach Belt Convention historical past as properly, however he is aware of his success on the court docket is barely a part of his story.

Myers mentioned, “After we stroll within the health club each time, and the boards are proper there and we take a look at these names, my title goes to be a kind of names up there, so it’s fairly cool.”

Tyree Myers and the Augusta Jaguars will look to guard their high spot within the Seashore Belt Convention standings, in opposition to the Georgia School Bobcats, Saturday at 2 p.m.

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