He and wife, Amy, were married in the summer of 2001 the couple had their first child in the summer of 2005 created the Tim Duncan Foundation in November of 2001 Amy serves as the executive vice president of the organization which is setup to serve the areas of health awareness and research, education and youth sports and recreation in San Antonio, Winston-Salem and the U.S. Virgin Islands the Foundation holds two major fundraisers each year: the annual Tim Duncan Bowling for Dollar$ Charity Bowl-A-Thon and the annual Slam Duncan Charity Golf Classic (since its creation the Foundation has raised approximately $750,000) through the Tim Duncan Character Champions program donates 50 tickets to each game to students who demonstrate integrity, respect, dependability, fairness, caring or civic responsibility member of the NBA All-Star Reading Team the winner of the 2001 Home Team Community Service Award given by the Fannie Mae Foundation and the NBA named one of the Good Guys in sports by The Sporting News in both 2001 and 2002 also supports the Children's Bereavement Center, the Children's Center of San Antonio and the Cancer Therapy and Research Center received his degree in psychology from Wake Forest didn't play organized basketball until ninth grade concentrated on swimming as a youngster - at one point was a top U.S. competitor in his age group in the 400 freestyle - before his local pool was destroyed by Hurricane Hugo in 1989 known for wearing his practice shorts backwards, a trend he started while in college has two sisters, Cheryl and Tricia Tricia was a member of the Virgin Islands swim team in the 1988 Olympics has a large knife collection which includes a three-foot samurai sword admits to being afraid of heights and sharks favorite movie is The Crow a video game junkie.