Editing David Robinson (section)

==Early life, family and education==
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Robinson was born in [[Key West]], [[Florida]], the second child of Ambrose and Freda Robinson. Since Robinson's father was in the [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]], the family moved frequently. After his father retired from the Navy, the family settled in [[Woodbridge, Virginia]], where Robinson excelled in school and in most sports, except basketball. Robinson attended [[Osbourn Park High School]] in [[Manassas, Virginia]], just outside [[Washington, D.C.]], where Robinson's father was working as an engineer.

Robinson was of average height for most of his childhood and teenage years, standing {{height|ft=5|in=9}} tall in his junior year of high school (age 16–17). However, during his senior year (age 17–18) in high school, he experienced a large growth spurt and grew to {{height|ft=6|in=6}}. He had not played organized basketball or attended any basketball camps,<ref name="montville19960429" /> but the school's basketball coach added him to the team. Robinson earned all-area and all-district honors but generated little interest among college basketball coaches.

Robinson graduated from Osbourn Park in 1983. He achieved a score of 1320 on the [[SAT]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ph.D |first=Joe Hoedel |date=2022-02-27 |title=David Robinson – Character |url=https://characterandleadership.com/david-robinson-character/ |access-date=2024-09-09 |website=Character and Leadership |language=en-US}}</ref> and subsequently attended the [[United States Naval Academy]], where he would major in [[mathematics]] and play on the basketball team. At the time the Naval Academy had a height restriction of {{height|ft=6|in=6}} for all midshipmen, but in the autumn when the new academic year began, Robinson had grown to {{height|ft=6|in=7}}. Assuming that he was unlikely to grow much more, the academy's superintendent granted him a waiver, but Robinson continued growing, and by the start of his second year at the academy he had nearly reached his adult height of {{height|ft=7|in=1}}, which later prevented him from serving on any U.S. Navy ships.

In 2011, Robinson earned a Master of Arts in Administration (with concentration in organizational development) from the [[University of the Incarnate Word]] to better "understand how businesses work and how to build them."<ref name="sanantoniomag.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.sanantoniomag.com/SAM/March-2012/The-Education-of-David-Robinson/|title=The Education of David Robinson | place= San Antonio, Texas| website= sanantoniomag.com| date=March 2012|access-date=January 29, 2020|archive-date=June 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190621042813/https://www.sanantoniomag.com//SAM/March-2012/The-Education-of-David-Robinson|url-status=live}}</ref>