When student-athletes elect to attend a two-year school before heading to the four-year college of their choice, it’s typically to try to get them to the next level. Many think an extra two years at a junior college could get eventually get them to the Division I level.
It doesn’t always work that way, but that’s exactly what Benjamin Russell graduate Dylan Moncus has done.
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