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Basketball requires its best players to display both a logical and strategic approach to the geometry and physics of the game, along with flashes of creative brilliance that can provide the thrilling difference in a successful season.
Makinde-Beckles, as an IUP student and forward on the men’s basketball team from 1996 through 2001, proved this to be true. He was named the PSAC Player of the Year in 2000, along with earning a place on the second team All-American squad. During his IUP career, he averaged 18 points a game, with 9.7 rebounds, shooting 64 percent from the field and making 50 percent of his shots from the three-point line.
A 1996 graduate of Monsignor McClancy Memorial High School in East Elmhurst, NY, Makinde-Beckles earned a bachelor of science degree in business management from IUP in 2001, and a master’s degree in special education from Touro College in 2008.
Makinde-Beckles works at the New York City Department of Education as a special education teacher. He lives Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, Salisha, and child, Remy.
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