{"id":78450,"date":"2022-08-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/08\/19\/fant-a-star-high-school-alliance-alum-praises-program\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T19:55:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T00:55:14","slug":"fant-a-star-high-school-alliance-alum-praises-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/08\/19\/fant-a-star-high-school-alliance-alum-praises-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Fant, a star High School Alliance alum, praises program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>NFL tight end Noah Fant might list as a product of Omaha South High School.<\/p>\n<p>But in his senior year, Fant also graduated from the UNMC High School Alliance. In a new interview with television station King 5 Seattle \u2014\u00a0where Fant is in his first season with the Seattle Seahawks \u2014\u00a0Fant talks up the UNMC program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always been big into the medical field,&#8221; Fant said. &#8220;That was just kind of a great program to jumpstart that interest and take some college level classes at the university.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Noah Fant on the UNMC High School Alliance (starting at the 1:05 mark):<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/10n-8bNK05c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Fant, who participated in the program during 2015-16, explains how he spent half days during his senior year at South, then headed for UNMC at lunch to &#8220;kind of take college classes the rest of the day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything you can imagine \u2014\u00a0they did a great job,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We did cadaver labs. I sat in on a couple surgeries. It&#8217;s a little bit of a shock at first, right? I mean, you&#8217;re like in a lab looking at human muscle and stuff like that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But once you get into it, if you&#8217;re really truly interested in it, it&#8217;s really cool to see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"350\" cellspacing=\"10\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Fant1122.jpg\" alt=\"picture disc.\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.85em; line-height: 150%;\">Noah Fant came back to Omaha to speak to the UNMC High School Alliance in 2016. He&#8217;s seen here with Heidi Kaschke, director of the program.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Fant, who went on from high school to be a star at the University of Iowa, continues to be a star of the UNMC High School Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2016 interview for UNMC Today, he had high praise for the program and even said it inspired him toward a future career as an orthopedic surgeon. &#8220;It was a great experience for me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It gets you ready for college. 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