STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: New team, new beginnings

Gershon Mbobi, a first-year Fitness and Health Promotion student, was recruited by the Humber Hawks out of High School and is looking forward to the upcoming basketball season.

“I’ll be travelling to new schools and areas I have yet to see,” he said. 
 

Mbobi stands at an impressive 6-foot-3 which made him a big man in High School but will move him out to the wing in the Hawk’s system.

“It’s a new experience. I played centre all my time playing ball but playing forward and on the wing is a good transition,” he said.

While Mbobi said he’s enjoyed the prospects of the upcoming season, the academic aspects of Humber excite him too.

“Off court, I’m just excited for the education I’m having,” Mbobi said. “Getting the chance to do schoolwork in a very good institution is important.”

Some new challenges come with his new environment, one familiar to most first-year students.

“Workload. It’s different from high school to now,” Mbobi said.

But that comes with growing up in general. He is dealing with possibly the biggest change one can go through, becoming an adult.

“Turning 18, I’d say it's a big change,” Mbobi said. “I’ve got a lot of responsibilities in my family being the eldest child, dealing with a new school, work as well and basketball. In the end, it’s those four things.”

Nonetheless, he looks forward to the new horizon at the freshly renamed Humber Polytechnic.