FWST: Horrific night changed Alex Robinson and helped lead him back to TCU

[TopFrog]

Horrific night changed Alex Robinson and helped lead him back to TCU

BY STEFAN STEVENSON
sstevenson@star-telegram.com

Alex Robinson had to get out. He needed to go home.

The TCU guard was finishing up his freshman year at Texas A&M. He had a boot on his right foot after surgery to fix a fracture he played with for much of the season.

And then a night out with friends in May 2015 near College Station turned tragic.

Four friends, all Texas A&M students, including driver Alexis Emmou, were in a car ahead of the one Robinson was driving. They were leaving a party on the night of the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight and headed to the Northgate district near campus.

Read more at http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/college/big-12/texas-christian-university/article202796769.html

 

[Paradoxotaur]

Wow. What an incredible young man.

 

[StinnettFrog]

In the end it's just a game, but how you live your life is what matters. Sounds like he is definitely a winner in life.

 

[TopFrog]

Wow, guess I had never heard that story before. Alex is a very good man to step up and step in.

 

[Leap Frog]

A great and very touching story about life, and the things that really matter.
Glad Alex came home, he is a fine player, but an even better young man.

 

[Dogfrog]

What a cruel life lesson. All due respect to Alex and all the young people and families affected.

 

[froglep]

just drove that road on Saturday night. Scary to think I had thoughts of driving way too fast and veering off the road.