NORMAN — Throughout his young life, Brayden Willis wanted to make a difference when he saw things he felt were wrong.
“Even when I was 12 with the Trayvon Martin incident and everything like that,” the OU H-back said Monday.
“It’s been a couple times. But I never felt like I had the lead-by-example enough to be able to do it, because I wasn’t actively voting. Now that I’m actively voting and I know the process and I can educated people on the process, it’s become a real priority for me.”
So Willis, who just missed the cutoff to vote in 2016, not only cast his first presidential vote in this election cycle but made a push for voter registration in the lead-up to Tuesday’s election.