CPCC Alumnus & NC State WR NaQuan Brown eager for one more year

Five years ago, NaQuan Brown put on his cap and gown, picked up his diploma and graduated from high school. Football, he likes to say, was placed on a "temporary stoppage."  His family needed him more.

With his mother struggling to find full-time work, Brown enrolled at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, North Carolina, instead of pursuing his football career. Eventually he took a job in the hardware section at Wal-Mart. He, his mother and younger brother lived in a small apartment, where Brown was the primary bread-winner while his mom hunted for jobs.

"I was humbled, basically, because this is my family so I knew family's first," he said. "I was very positive about it all."

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