Lasting Legacy
Holloran’s first GW memories involve laundry. He’d sometimes ride his bike to Foggy Bottom to help his older brother Mike, a football star who also served as Resident Director at Mitchell Hall, with linen duty.
Eventually, Holloran picked to stay local at GW over far-flung offers from the likes of Xavier, Stetson and Niagara. When he was leading the Colonials on the hardwood under Carl Slone and Bob Tallent, it was an added bonus to be able to take his laundry home to have his mother handle it.
That choice continued to pay dividends after graduation. The Psychology major used a GW connection to land an entry-level job in a local law firm while he completed graduate school and coached hoops. He enjoyed the work enough to attend law school and eventually open his own firm.
Today, the Harrisonburg, Va.-based attorney brings a familiar fire into the courtroom, grateful for his alma mater’s assistance with finding this career path.
“As you get older, you don’t have the hops or the speed, but you can still compete personally,” he said with a smile.
For Rogers, a remarkable run in Foggy Bottom offered preparation for a pro career and beyond.
Playing in France, Italy and Belgium, Rogers leaned on his experiences with so many international teammates and classmates. When his decade-long run overseas finished, he returned home to use his sociology degree to make a difference for the next generation in his community as a counselor and coach.
“The academic side of it, it’s huge,” Rogers said. “Anybody that comes to GW, they’re going to get the best of the best.”
Life after basketball brought Monroe back to his alma mater.
While playing abroad, he leaned on a vast network of GW connections for guidance, whether it be financial, career-planning or life in general. He wanted to help pay it forward in the city that’s always been home, and he’s done it as a member of the athletic department since the fall of 2014, currently serving as Associate Director of Development.
“Everyone at GW cares about you as a person, more so than just what you can do on the court at that point in time,” Monroe said. “That’s the message that I think I learned from the alumni through the mentorship that they gave me. It was always, ‘Chris, you did great things on the basketball court, but you’ve got so much more to do outside of basketball.’”
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