BOULDER — Chancellor Lee Adams will turn 18 this year — the same age his father was when he first stepped foot on the University of Colorado campus as a freshman football player in 1992.
Lee has never met his father, Rae Carruth. The former Colorado star wide receiver and first-round draft pick is still in a North Carolina prison after his 2001 conviction on conspiracy to commit murder charges for his part in a plot that claimed the life of Lee's mother, Cherica Adams. Lee was delivered prematurely after his mother was shot and has suffered his entire life from cerebral palsy and brain damage, a result of his mother's injuries and his premature delivery.