Myron L. Rolle is a Bahamian-American born in Texas. While he was in high school, he played the saxophone in the school band, sang in a school play, and was the sports editor of the school newspaper as well as playing football, basketball and participating in track events. Joggling his academics with sporting activities in the High School, Rolle still maintained a 4.0 GPA. His astute play made him an All-American by making 112 successful tackles with 14 loss. At that time, he was ranked as the number one high school prospect in the United States by ESPN recruiting services.
In 2006, after a wide search across the lengths and breadths of the United States, Rolle won the prestigious annually awarded Franklin D. Watkins Memorial Trophy, the premier African-American scholar/athlete award in America for high school males.
As a young man wanting to clip his aspiration with being a National Football League (NFL) player and a medical doctor. Rolle played as a safety at FSU, completed all necessary pre-medical requirements, and earned his bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science within two and half years with a 3.75 GPA. He received Associated Press 3rd team All-American honors, and also Football Writers Association America 2nd team All-ACC and CoSIDA Academic All-America in 2008. Rolle became the fourth Florida State student and second school athlete to receive Rhodes Scholarships awarded to American students annually, as he was the only FSU football player to attain that feat.
Rolle was later selected by the Tennessee Titans in the sixth round (207th overall) of the 2010 NFL Draft, and where he signed a four-year contract with the NFL side.
Notching up his medical dream, Rolle got enrolled into Florida State University College of Medicine in 2013, and he successfully passed out of the medical school in 2017 from where he had his neurosurgery residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
