Academic All-Star Beats Odds, Shines Brightly

By his own admission, Mid-South Community College student Treyvon Olden is unaccustomed to recognition for academic success. To this point in his life, most of the 19-year-old’s accolades have come from athletic endeavors. So when he earned our institution’s highest honor for a student, he had a simple question – why?
 

The answer is also very simple; the story behind it is much more complex. Treyvon Olden is a classic example of why Mid-South Community College exists. Raised in a one-parent home in a rough section of Memphis, Olden’s prospects for the future looked bleak at best. He has described his surroundings as hostile and has shared that he felt he came from a “generation that’s cursed. My father’s father was not in his life, and my father was not in my life. My father really didn’t want to have anything to do with me.”