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Subject: [gatornews] [SUN]: Dupay attempting marathon 3-pointer record
Dupay attempting marathon 3-pointer record
Former Florida point guard Teddy Dupay will attempt to break the record for most 3-pointers made in a 24-hour period.
Matt Stamey/Staff photographer/File
By Kevin Brockway
Gainesville SUN Staff writer
Published: Wednesday, July 8, 2015 at 11:21 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, July 8, 2015 at 11:21 p.m.
Teddy Dupay made his mark at Florida for his ability to drain 3-point shots.
But the former Gator guard who helped lead UF to the 2000 national title game is embarking on his toughest long-range shooting challenge yet.
On July 15, at the Dream Center of Tampa Gym, Dupay will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for most 3-pointers in a 24-hour period. The record is 10,381, which was set in 2012.
To accomplish that feat, Dupay would need to average 7.2 3-pointers made per minute.
"Anything is possible," Dupay said. "I've been training. I'm in great shape. I'm in the gym every day. I'm definitely prepared and somebody else did it so you don't say it's impossible. This is something where I'm going to have to shoot roughly 80 percent from the 3-point line for 24 hours to break the record and so we will see."
Dupay is attempting the record not for publicity, but to raise money for charity. A friend gave him the idea of trying for the record after watching the Today Show and seeing someone get interviewed for breaking the Guinness record for most pull-ups.
"My knee-jerk reaction was no way, I'm old now," said Dupay, who turned 36 on June 26. "I'm not a young kid anymore."
But Dupay decided if he could find a charity to benefit from the event, he'd give it a shot. That charity is the Academy Prep Center of Tampa and St. Petersburg, a tuition-free school for middle school-aged children that provides high-level education for need-based students.
After visiting the school, Dupay was convinced it was the perfect charity for his mission to help kids.
"I was so impressed with how the kids were communicating, the skills that were being taught," Dupay said. "It's an amazing education. We're talking about chess, golf, public speaking, mock trials. The kids are getting real-life experience that they may be getting at a ($20,000 to $40,000) per year private school."
So Dupay is gathering sponsors to donate anywhere from a penny to a dime to a dollar per made shot. He'll have a handful of celebrity observers during the event, including former Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive end Simeon Rice, WWE tag team champion and former UF defensive end Thaddeus Bullard (aka Titus O'Neil) and former Tampa Bay Storm owner Bob Gries.
Dupay also has received support from longtime ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale, who took to social media to air a video to promote Dupay's attempt to break the record.
Most Gator fans remember Dupay as "Teddy Trigger," one of Billy Donovan's first big-time recruits, an undersized 5-foot-10 guard who arrived at Florida in 1998 and helped transform the Gators into a nationally relevant program. As part of a deep and talented team that included Mike Miller, Matt Bonner, Udonis Haslem, Brent Wright and Major Parker, Florida made its second Final Four run in school history in 2000 and knocked off North Carolina before falling 89-76 to Michigan State in the title game.
That turned out to be a high point of a college career in which Dupay suffered back problems and was forced to leave UF in 2001 amid allegations he gambled on sports. In 2009, a few years removed from his overseas basketball career, Dupay pleaded guilty to an assault charge in a domestic dispute. Dupay has tried to atone for his past by returning to the game he loves and cautioning others not to make the same mistakes he made. In 2014, Dupay opened the Teddy Dupay Basketball Academy in Tampa in an attempt to develop basketball at the grassroots level within the state.
"I'm just trying to turn everything negatively that's happened to me into a positive for someone else," Dupay said.
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