One hockey-loving teenager is well on his approach to a future law degree, thanks partially to certainly one of his favorite players.
After the Rangers accomplished their regular season with a 3-2 loss to the Maple Leafs on Thursday night on the Garden, captain Jacob Trouba gave the jersey off his back — and signed it — to beaming 18-year-old Isaiah Márquez-Greene.
The Rangers’ veteran defenseman presented Márquez-Greene, a self-identified fan of the blueliner dating back to his days with the Winnipeg Jets, with the Garden of Dreams Encourage Scholarship, which can go toward paying for law school once he completes his undergraduate degree.
“I need an invite for once you graduate law school,” Trouba tells Márquez-Greene after offering to exchange phone numbers, “and I’m gonna check in on you once you go to school next 12 months.”
Márquez-Greene’s younger sister, Ana, was certainly one of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting in Connecticut.
Their mother, Nelba, is a therapist working with grieving families, and she or he also operates The Ana Grace Project in her daughter’s honor.
Isaiah Márquez-Greene, a survivor of the tragic event in Newtown, Conn., is the starting goalie for Taft High School in Watertown, Conn., and is an educational standout who has been accepted on the University of Connecticut.
“I do know your story. I feel for you,” Trouba told Márquez-Greene, who informed the previous Jet he lived in in Winnipeg between the ages of 5 and eight. “You’re a tremendous human.”
At UConn, Márquez-Greene will take part in the Special Program in Law, which mechanically enrolls him in the college’s law program that accepts 10 percent of applicants.
