CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 14 -- The University of Virginia issued the following news release:
Growing up in an area that produced professional athletes like Allen Iverson and Michael Vick, Cecil White once imagined that he, too, could be a sports star from Hampton Roads.
But then White, while playing in a local junior football league, tried to stretch a long run into a touchdown. When he lunged for the goal line, his collarbone snapped in half.
Staring down a long recovery, a 12-year-old White's big-league dreams dwindled - until his mother changed his perspective.
"Instead of being the guy out on the field risking everything," Debra Saunders-White told her son, "Why don't you be the person behind the scenes helping athletes think thro...