Beating the odds.
Former University of Toledo basketball star Craig Thames did that throughout his athletic career, and for 21 since has tried to help struggling teenagers to the same in his social work as a mental health specialist.
Born March 11, 1973, in Toledo to parents Gloria Thames and Rick Washington, Craig Thames, 47, spent much of his youth growing up in the Detroit suburb of Lincoln Park.
Although he evolved into a great basketball talent at Waite High School (Class of 1991) and later at UT (1992-96), that was his third sport in his grade school and junior high years in Lincoln Park.