--- title: Dwyane Wade Visits Stoneman Douglas High School Students description: Hours after Betsy DeVos stopped by Stoneman Douglas, Dwyane Wade showed up to surprise the Parkland students with a visit of his own. canonical: https://time.com/5190024/dwyane-wade-stoneman-douglas-visit/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-07T20:42:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:51:12.601Z og:title: Dwyane Wade Makes Emotional Surprise Visit to Stoneman Douglas High School og:description: "I’m inspired by all of you" og:url: https://time.com/5190024/dwyane-wade-stoneman-douglas-visit/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbf14275d79e2fbfa/69892a02e76ad269ac6314a5/dwayne-wade-stoneman-douglas.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Dwyane-Wade-Stoneman-Douglas og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Dwyane Wade Makes Emotional Surprise Visit to Stoneman Douglas High School twitter:description: "I’m inspired by all of you" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbf14275d79e2fbfa/69892a02e76ad269ac6314a5/dwayne-wade-stoneman-douglas.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Dwyane Wade Makes Emotional Surprise Visit to Stoneman Douglas High School > Sponsored content. 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Ocner/Miami Herald/TNS via Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 7, 2018 8:42 PM UTC Hours after Education Secretary [Betsy DeVos](http://time.com/5053007/betsy-devos-education-secretary-2017-controversies/) stopped by [Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School](http://time.com/5188917/marjory-stoneman-douglas-times-square/), [Dwyane Wade](http://time.com/4316831/dwayne-wade-prince-basketball-player/) showed up to surprise the Parkland students with a visit of his own. The Miami Heat star arrived at the Florida high school around lunchtime on Wednesday and offered up some words of encouragement to all the survivors of the shooting. “You guys have been amazing from afar, and I just wanted to come and say I’m inspired by all of you,” he said during a brief speech in the cafeteria. “As someone out here in the public eye I’m proud to say I’m from this state. Because of you guys and because of the future of this world because of you guys. I just say thank you, man.” Wade also tweeted about the uplifting experience he had at the school. “I just had a great conversation with some of the students at Stoneman Douglas High School about some important/impactful things that they have planned,” he wrote. “I’m looking forward to being more involved in the change that they WILL create.” > [](https://twitter.com/sebiloveschoco/status/971429898370895877) > [](https://twitter.com/DwyaneWade/status/971450139347955712) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5190024/dwyane-wade-stoneman-douglas-visit/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5190024/dwyane-wade-stoneman-douglas-visit/"},"headline":"Dwyane Wade Makes Emotional Surprise Visit to Stoneman Douglas High School","datePublished":"2018-03-07T20:42:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:51:12.601Z","description":"\"I’m inspired by all of you\"","url":"https://time.com/5190024/dwyane-wade-stoneman-douglas-visit/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Florida"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbf14275d79e2fbfa/69892a02e76ad269ac6314a5/dwayne-wade-stoneman-douglas.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbf14275d79e2fbfa/69892a02e76ad269ac6314a5/dwayne-wade-stoneman-douglas.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Dwyane-Wade-Stoneman-Douglas","caption":"Dwyane Wade stands next to the sister of a Stoneman Douglas victim","creditText":"Matias J. 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