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Dee Mitchell took on a full-time job at Walmart just to help his mom make ends meet, all while attending Oklahoma State University and being a fixture on the Cowboys’ basketball team.
Watch the moment his coach surprised him with life-changing news of a scholarship in the player above.
Coach Mike Boynton told Dee, “Nobody has exemplified more than what I want for my program than you.”
The big surprise came two years after Dee first made the team and it also happened to be on his birthday.
“I didn’t know what was going on. It was a real surprise. It was breathtaking. It felt like I was in a movie or something,” says Dee.
