Incredible moment when Sandy Hook survivor – whose sister was killed in a shooting – is surprised with a scholarship from his hero Jacob Trouba on the ice of Madison Square Garden
- The scholarship to UConn was funded by the Garden of Dreams foundation
- Isiah Marquez-Greene also received a signed shirt from Jacob Trouba as a gift
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This is the heartwarming moment when New York Rangers captain Jacob Trouba presented a Sandy Hook shooting survivor with a college scholarship on the ice at Madison Square Garden.
The incredible clip saw NHL hero Trouba surprise Isiah Marquez-Greene before a recent Rangers game, with the youngster initially only expecting to receive a jersey from his hero.
Instead, Trouba asked him to take a seat on the couch, where he presented him with the rest of the surprise – a scholarship for his law school at UConn, and even his phone number.
“I know your story, I feel for you, you are a wonderful human being,” Trouba said before asking Marquez-Greene what he wanted to do later in life.
“I want to be a lawyer,” Marquez-Greene replied.
Trouba then presented Marquez-Greene with a scholarship funded by Madison Square Garden’s “Garden of Dreams” foundation.
Sandy Hook who shot survivor Isiah Marquez-Greene received a scholarship from MSG
The youngster also received a signed jersey from his favorite New York Ranger Jacob Trouba as a gift
Marquez-Greene is currently set to attend UConn’s Special Program in Law. The program allows incoming students to express their interest in law and then receive special support in college to prepare for law school.
The youngster — who lost his sister in the Sandy Hook school shooting — also received Trouba’s phone number after the player said he wanted to attend the young man’s eventual graduation from law school.
Marquez-Greene’s family runs the Ana Grace Project, a foundation named in honor of his younger sister, who died at the age of six in the horrific 2012 shooting in Newton, Connecticut.
Twenty-six people – comprising 20 children and six adults – were killed in the school shooting.
Marquez-Greene also attended Sandy Hook at the time and was only eight years old when the shooting happened.
Trouba is currently in his fourth season with the Rangers after playing for the Winnipeg Jets
The 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting killed 26 people, including 20 children
His mother wrote on the Garden of Dreams Facebook page to express her gratitude and dismay at her son receiving the scholarship, saying, “I still have no words to describe this. I am shocked.
“Basically, we turned down a lot of schools because it would have created so much debt. I didn’t want that for him. And I didn’t want it for me,” she wrote. Saying no to a child’s first choice is hard. But God had this in store.’
He was not the only scholarship recipient, as fifteen students received $60,000 in prizes from the foundation.