College
Greer went to Nova Southeastern University in the US and led them with 11.2 points and 4.9 rebounds after transferring prior to his sophomore season. He played in all 28 games, starting 27, which was tops on the team for starts and appearances. Greer was named Peach Belt Conference and Augusta State Freshman of the Year while he averaged 9.9 points-per-game and a team-high 5.3 boards-per-contest in 2003/04 with Augusta State.
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Famous quotes containing the word college:
“I never feel so conscious of my race as I do when I stand before a class of twenty-five young men and women eager to learn about what it is to be black in America.”
—Claire Oberon Garcia, African American college professor. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. B3 (July 27, 1994)
“No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a “Master of Arts” and a “Doctor of Philosophy” after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)
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—Norman Giddan (20th century)