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By Kimberly Wilson ·Updated February 1, 2025
The wooden basketball court at Springfield’s High School of Commerce probably feels like a lifetime ago for Will Dawkins.
Back then, he was Western Massachusetts Player of the Year, leading his team to the 2004 Division I State Championship. The same driven teenager who commanded that court would eventually chart a course through college basketball at Emerson, where he became a two-time Arthur Ashe Sports Scholar
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