CHAMPAIGN — Wedding planning was conducted around football for Dre and Lindsay Brown. A three-week window in May for the redshirt junior running back and his Centennial grad fiancée quickly became one.
Dre graduated from Illinois with his bachelor's degree the second weekend of the month. One of Lindsay's friends got married the next weekend. That left Memorial Day weekend for the wedding and a honeymoon trip to Jamaica before Dre's summer workouts started.
"The venue was the hardest part," said Lindsay, a key contributor on Centennial's volleyball team that placed third in state in Class 3A during the 2012 season.