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Full name is Arielle Mia Thomas ... plans on starting a family transportation company and owning a small cruise line in the future ... 2011 graduate of North Clayton High School in College Park, Ga. ... business management major at Paine ... played basketball and volleyball for the Eagles ... in high school, averaged 8 points per game, 6 rebounds per game and 5 assists per game ... played AAU basketball for the Georgia Pistols ... lettered one year in volleyball ... was Senior Class President, member of teh A-B Honor Roll and a member of the National Honor Society and Beta Club at North Clayton ... transferred to Paine from Young Harris College ... at Young Harris, appeared in all 26 games, shot 38.3 percent from the field, 57.1 percent from the line and averaged 10.1 minutes per game as a freshman ... All-Academic Award recipient freshman year and Deans List member freshman and sophomore years at Young Harris ... favorite scripture is Philippians 4:13 ... favorite movies are Save the Last Dance, Tempation and Love and Basketball ... loves to travel, go on cruises, eat pepperoni pizza and watch the Miami Heat ... mother, Shawanda Thomas, owns a brokerage company ... older brother, Herbert Thomas, is in the Marines ... also has one sister and another brother.