In one of the most successful jumps from high school to the NBA, Phoenix Suns’Captain Amar'e Stoudemire captured the '03 NBA Rookie of the Year award at just 20 years old. Amar'e is a four-time NBA All-Star and is All-NBA First Team (the NBA's highest honors).

Standing at 6-10, Amar'e strives to positively influence youth, through his Each 1,Teach 1 Foundation, providing philanthropic support to at-risk minority youth and families. He was encouraged to give back so ardently, due to his tumultuous childhood in Florida, having moved around often and attending six different high schools before finishing his prep career at Cypress Creek High in Orlando, Florida.
His first foray with organized basketball was at the late age of 14, but he quickly developed the skills to now make him one of the best players in the NBA.
His brute force and amazing quickness for someone his size makes him extremely difficult to defend in the low post and a shot-blocking threat on the defensive end.

Amar'e owns Stoudemire's Downtown, a classy, sports-oriented restaurant next to the Phoenix Suns' arena, which has become a mainstay in the city. His love of music spurred him to start his own record label, Hypolcalypto Records and Hypolcalypto Entertainment, signing Phoenix-based Juice, as his first artist.

The Phoenix Suns' Captain was recently the only athlete in the UNICEF global campaign for child survival awareness called "Believe in Zero." The goal of this campaign is to ask the general public to join UNICEF in the fight to roll back the number of preventable child deaths from 25,000 per day to zero. He has written several opinion editorial articles, such as for Ebony Magazine and the AZ Republic, encouraging the youth to keep on track with their studies, as well as encouraging adults to give back to the youth.

He also lent his voice to the "Boost" High School Dropout Prevention campaign to help curb the nation's alarming dropout problem. Amare donated his time to record a series of entertaining and motivating wake-up calls and alarm ringtones that encourage teens throughout the country to "wake up" and get to school.

Amar'e has been featured in a myriad of media outlets, such as Nickelodeon Jr., Spike TV, Men’s Health, Maxim, Men's Journal, Money Magazine, Sports Illustrated, SI for Kids, Mass Appeal, and Ebony to the Jimmy Kimmel Show, Best Damn Sports Show, Jim Rome Show, and ESPN.