For Ball State men’s basketball player Tayler Persons, the sight was all too familiar.
Three years ago, his hometown of Kokomo, Indiana, was hit by a tornado outbreak that left parts of the city in rubble. Then a senior at Kokomo High School, Persons helped to organize more than 300 students for a cleanup effort.
He’s now a redshirt sophomore at Ball State, but he was back in Kokomo once again Thursday afternoon after another tornado touched down a day earlier.
Also a member of Ball State Sports Link, Persons took a group of classmates from that program with him to help with Thursday’s efforts.