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027: Akol Arop - Former College Basketball Player - "Faith and Community"

Virtuous Athlete

Akol Arop is a former college basketball player at the University of Nebraska, Nebraska at Omaha, and Florida Southern College. Akol's family is originally from South Sudan, but he was born in Cairo, Egypt. At a young age, his family then moved to Houston, TX, before settling in Omaha, Nebraska. Akol was a 3-time All-State basketball player at Creighton Prep, where they also won a State Championship in 2018. He was also the 2019 Nebraska Gatorade Player of the Year. Akol has had quite the journey in life and faced a lot of adversity, but through it all, he has always had two things: his faith in God and friends around him to help him stay close to Jesus.