The Andrew Smith display at the NCAA Hall of Champion. Photo by Josh Mullenix
JOSH MULLENIX | STAFF REPORTER | jmulleni@butler.edu
Inside the NCAA Hall of Champions, past the stone linemen standing in formation and up the stairs, a wall displays a handful of NCAA athletes that have had an impact in ways that extend far beyond the field of play.
This showcase, called Playing It Forward, ranges from Southern Mississippi student-athletes walking the streets of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, cleaning up the destruction of a tornado, to a Wisconsin Badger ice hockey player who traveled all the way to Kenya to teach women about health care and ended up creating a multi-village soccer league.