By Mandy Bell, GoPSUSports.com student feature writer
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Children often look up to the larger-than-life athletes playing in front of the big crowds under the bright lights. Tim Scholly attended all Penn State sporting events and remembers admiring the Nittany Lions on the Penn State football field when he was just four or five years old.
However, Scholly had a closer relationship to these athletes than the other kids in the crowd who were admiring those athletes in blue and white. As a State College native, these student-athletes would visit Scholly's schools and he would see them at local fairs.