When former Shocker basketball standout Jerome “Fridge” Holman left Wichita State in 2004, he was one semester away from graduating with his degree.
At the time, academics were not Holman’s top priority. He was chasing a professional basketball dream and found it with a brief career overseas. But the money and the fame came when Holman earned a spot on the traveling AND1 Mixtape Tour and played under his streetball name “Circus” for years.
But when his playing career was over and it was time to join the real world, Holman quickly discovered he would need a degree to help provide for his girlfriend and their two children, Braylen and Major.