A 1973, ya sauke karatu daga La Lumiere School, a Roman Katolika boarding makaranta a La Porte, Indiana, inda ya kasance dalibi da kuma dan wasa. Ya yi karatu shekaru biyar na Latin (a cikin shekaru hudu), wasu Faransanci, kuma an san shi gaba ɗaya don sadaukar da kai ga karatunsa. Ya kasance kyaftin din tawagar kwallon kafa (daga baya ya bayyana kansa a matsayin "mai jinkirin kafa"), kuma ya kasance zakara na yanki a cikin kokawa. Ya shiga cikin mawaƙa da wasan kwaikwayo, ya haɗu da jaridar makaranta, kuma ya yi aiki a kwamitin wasanni da kwamitin zartarwa na majalisar dalibai.
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