This year’s Pat Tillman Award for Service was awarded to former Notre Dame women’s basketball player, Danielle Green.
Danielle lost her left arm during a patrol in Iraq in 2004. Danielle knew she was badly hurt. But then a feeling came over her: an adrenaline rush of belief.
“I actually knew I would be OK when I was still on the rooftop,” said Green, an Army veteran wounded in a grenade attack. “After I said a prayer, I felt reassurance and hope, a burst of energy. Then my comrades came, and I knew I would make it.