On Saturday afternoon in Louisville I stood in the hotel lobby among Syracuse Orange cross-country athletes, coaches, alums and family members. It was a couple of hours after the NCAA Championships and a short time before the team would return to campus. I watched as NCAA Champ Justyn Knight accepted congratulations from those at the hotel. He graciously and patiently spoke with everyone who approached. He posed for countless photos while his parents stood a few feet away.
I went over to congratulate them and remarked to Justyn’s Dad that I’d heard and seen countless occassions where his son had stopped what he was doing to talk.