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per STrib:
The 6-7, 190-pound teenager lumbers through the door at Grandma’s house looking for food, just as he does most days.
It’s 2:15 p.m., time for one of Gophers freshman Michael Hurt’s eight meals.
By the time this May Monday is through, he’ll stuff down 7,500 calories. For now, it’s just a few hundred served up by Gail Brennan, Hurt’s maternal grandmother. Some days, Hurt and his younger brother, Matthew, will be treated to macaroni and cheese, or pasta with meatballs. Today, it’s a quick fix for the senior at Rochester John Marshall: a hot bowl of SpaghettiOs.
Hurt pours a glass of milk — the Hurts regularly go through 10 gallons of milk a week — and asks for the can. He needs to enter the calories into an iPhone app that helps him track his diet necessary to put on weight, gain strength and offset long days full of workouts.
These days, more than two months later, Hurt is on University of Minnesota’s campus, enveloped in summer training with the rest of the basketball team.
But back in early May, the impetus behind Hurt’s strict routine is himself — with strong support from parents, siblings and grandparents — in his pursuit of a lifelong dream: being a Gopher.
http://www.startribune.com/from-cou...hers-hunger-for-basketball-success/387547501/
Go Gophers!!
The 6-7, 190-pound teenager lumbers through the door at Grandma’s house looking for food, just as he does most days.
It’s 2:15 p.m., time for one of Gophers freshman Michael Hurt’s eight meals.
By the time this May Monday is through, he’ll stuff down 7,500 calories. For now, it’s just a few hundred served up by Gail Brennan, Hurt’s maternal grandmother. Some days, Hurt and his younger brother, Matthew, will be treated to macaroni and cheese, or pasta with meatballs. Today, it’s a quick fix for the senior at Rochester John Marshall: a hot bowl of SpaghettiOs.
Hurt pours a glass of milk — the Hurts regularly go through 10 gallons of milk a week — and asks for the can. He needs to enter the calories into an iPhone app that helps him track his diet necessary to put on weight, gain strength and offset long days full of workouts.
These days, more than two months later, Hurt is on University of Minnesota’s campus, enveloped in summer training with the rest of the basketball team.
But back in early May, the impetus behind Hurt’s strict routine is himself — with strong support from parents, siblings and grandparents — in his pursuit of a lifelong dream: being a Gopher.
http://www.startribune.com/from-cou...hers-hunger-for-basketball-success/387547501/
Go Gophers!!
