{"id":6497,"date":"2013-03-01T17:07:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T22:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=6497"},"modified":"2014-01-25T18:09:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T23:09:57","slug":"student-wins-100000-scholarship-on-national-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=6497","title":{"rendered":"Student wins $100,000 scholarship on national TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6498\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/navid-radfar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6498 \" alt=\"navid-radfar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/navid-radfar.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/navid-radfar.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/navid-radfar-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Navid Radfar won Dr. Pepper\u2019s \u201cTuition Giveaway\u201d promotion during halftime of the ACC Football Championship Game.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When <strong>Navid Radfar<\/strong> stopped in to see his economics professor in late November, he was looking for advice on the proposal he was preparing to enter in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=5379\">Mayo Business Plan Competition<\/a>\u2014a contest that features a $12,000 top prize. But it was Professor <strong>Howard Nelson<\/strong>\u2019s advice on throwing a football that has already made Radfar $100,000 richer.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Radfar won Dr. Pepper\u2019s \u201cTuition Giveaway\u201d promotion, in which contestants have 30 seconds to throw as many footballs as possible through a two-foot-wide circular target from five yards away. Following Nelson\u2019s advice, Radfar used a chest-pass throwing technique\u2014which many previous winners have used\u2014rather than the more traditional overhand technique that most quarterbacks use.<\/p>\n<p>The sophomore biology major said he was hesitant at first about following Nelson\u2019s advice, fearing that doing so would make him look \u201cgoofy\u201d on TV. The competition, which took place during halftime of the ACC Football Championship Game, was televised on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>But after tossing some footballs overhand at a practice target, and realizing his completion percentage throwing that way put him in more in Chad Henne territory than in Chad Pennington territory, Radfar set his ego aside and decided to take Nelson\u2019s advice. The decision paid off handsomely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tuition money will change my life and my future forever,\u201d said Radfar, who plans to use the $100,000 to pay for medical school. His goal is to become a neurosurgeon. \u201cThis scholarship is going to give me the opportunity to shape my own future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Navid Radfar stopped in to see his economics professor in late November, he was looking for advice on the proposal he was preparing to enter in the Mayo Business Plan Competition\u2014a contest that features a $12,000 top prize. But it was Professor Howard Nelson\u2019s advice on throwing a football that has already made Radfar $100,000 richer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":6498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-march-2013","category-on-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}