Rapp attended Syracuse University , where he majored in international business and minored in French . He attended the college on a lacrosse scholarship and was an All-American . Rapp was also offered a scholarship by the University of North Carolina , but turned that one down because his high school sweetheart Maureen was attending Syracuse with the hope of getting into broadcasting . Maureen , whom Rapp had known since he was sixteen years old , was killed in the December 21 , 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 . She had been one of thirty-five Syracuse students returning from a semester overseas
Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103
Mitch Rapp