Achieve, Serve, Lead: Basketball's Steven Cook

Name Steven Cook
Team Men's Basketball
Year Senior
Major Economics
High School New Trier
Hometown Winnetka, Ill.

Athletic Accomplishments:
A forward on the men's basketball team, Cook is a two-time All-Ivy League honoree. He has averaged double-digit points in each of the last three seasons, including a career-best 13.0 so far this season.

Off the Field:
Two summers ago, a friend of Steven's (Jack DiMatteo, who attends LaSalle University in Philadelphia) forwarded him an article about the Gidel Mother of Mercy Hospital in Sudan. The hospital is the only one in a region of Sudan called the Nuba Mountains that is populated by roughly 1 million people and is in the middle of a gruesome civil war. It is run by a man named Dr. Tom Catena, who played football at Brown and decided to dedicate his life to the people in the Nuba Mountain region.

When Steven and Jack heard about this story and the amazing work that Dr. Catena was doing, they reached out to him and his support staff in the U.S. and decided to start a fundraiser to support the hospital. The money raised went to providing scholarships for people in the Nuba mountains to become trained medical staff in order to work at the severely understaffed and under-equipped hospital alongside Dr. Catena. Steven's coach, Mitch Henderson, decided to nominate him for the NABC Good Works award after he heard about the fundraiser, an honor that he greatly appreciates.

The fundraising page that Steven and his friend set up is at this link, where their hope to raise over $25,000. It is definitely worth it to take a look.

Steven on Steven:
"Learning about the Gidel Mother of Mercy Hospital and supporting their work has really made me think about what the Princeton experience is really about. As students at Princeton, we are privileged to receive the best education in the world, compete at the highest level athletically, and are surrounded by the most incredible people on a daily basis. However, it's how we choose to use our experience to help others that truly matters and defines our impact on the world."

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