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Choi Jin-soo
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He is the first South Korean to receive a full National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I basketball scholarship. He is listed as a small forward but he is able to play shooting guard, power forward, and center. Usually, he plays small forward in the United States, and power forward when he plays for the of Korea national basketball team
He came to the United States as a high school freshman in 2004.
As a freshman, he was a starting forward for Montclair Preparatory He transferred to South Kent for his sophomore year.
At South Kent, he played for three years as a Forward. In October 2007, he verbally committed to the University of Maryland.
He graduated from South Kent in 2008, and became a freshman at the University of Maryland, College Park.
In Choi"s first game as a Terrapin, he scored 20 points in an exhibition versus Northwood University. On January 27, 2009, Choi was declared academically ineligible.
Maryland appealed the decision to the National Collegiate Athletic Association and he was reinstated a few days later.
During the 2009 offseason, Choi changed his name from Kim to Choi. Choi"s biological father Kim Yoo-taek was a well-known South Korean basketball player and former of Korea national basketball team coach.
On January 5, 2010, it was announced that Choi was leaving the University of Maryland. He cited difficulties in playing basketball and taking academic classes at the same time as reasons for his departure.
Choi was drafted 3rd in the 2011 KBL Korean Basketball League draft to the Orions basketball club
