Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
The measure of a basketball man doesn’t always come from the box score.
Sometimes, it’s not the points you score, but the points you make either with your words, or your actions or even by just keeping your mouth shut.
Using those parameters — and throwing in a box score splash every now and then — Andrew Welage is a player like no other at Wright State.
Nine months ago, the 6-foot-6 guard was, in his words, “done with basketball.”
After last season, his fourth in a WSU uniform — he told the Raiders’ coaches; as well as his teammate buddies and longtime roommates Brandon Noel and Alex Huibregtse; and his parents back in Indiana, that he was ready to move on in life.
He was graduating in the spring with a degree in Organizational Leadership and hoped to find a managerial job.
“I had had enough and at that point in time I was ready for it to be over,” he said. “And a month and a half after I’d made the decision, I still was fine with it. I had no issues.”
