Charles Thomas McMillen (born May 26, 1952) is a retired professional basketball player, Rhodes Scholar, and Democratic U.S. Congressman, who represented the 4th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1987 to January 3, 1993.\n', '

On March 22, 2011, he was appointed as Chairman of the inaugural Board of Directors of the President\'s Foundation on Sports, Physical Fitness, and Nutrition. He is also the author of Out of Bounds, a critical look at the unhealthy influence of sports on ethics, and he served on the Knight Foundation\'s Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics investigating abuses within college sports.\n', '

Prior to entering politics, McMillen was a star basketball player on all levels. In 1970, he was the number one high school basketball player in the U.S. coming out of Mansfield, Pennsylvania, and was the biggest recruiting catch early in Coach Lefty Driesell\'s career at the University of Maryland, beating out rival Coach Dean Smith of the University of North Carolina for McMillen\'s services. McMillen was also a member of the 1972 U.S. Olympic Basketball Team that lost a controversial gold medal game to the Soviet Union.\n', '

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