Sheahon Zenger’s first memories are from the little yellow house his family lived in on 21st Street Terrace here when his father, Weldon, was earning his Ph.D. at Kansas — a degree Zenger himself would later earn at KU in educational policy and leadership.
He wore a Gale Sayers jersey in his fourth-grade class picture, and the first college football game he ever saw was from the hill at Memorial Stadium, his first basketball game at Allen Fieldhouse.
When he thinks of all he put into his tenure as Kansas athletic director, he thinks about the words of football coaching legend Vince Lombardi: “I firmly believe that any man's finest hour — his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear — is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle — victorious.