UM's Austin Hatch to receive Wilma Rudolph Award (for overcoming unthinkable obstacles)
Former Michigan basketball player and student assistant/manager Austin Hatch was named one of five recipients of the Wilma Rudolph Student-Athlete Achievement Award on Thursday.
The national award is presented by the National Association of Academic and Student-Athlete Development Professionals (N4A) and honors student-athletes who have overcome great personal, academic and/or emotional odds to achieve academic success while participating in intercollegiate athletics.
Personally, having followed a lot of Austin's story over the past few years, I can't think of anyone more deserving. His perserverence and courage have been an example for us all. A truly remarkable young man.
"has went through"? Yikes.
I wonder who negged you.
Exactly. Everyone knows the correct phrase is "done gone through."
At least, those of us who are edumacated.
Well, the kid went through a lot, to be sure, but "unthinkable obstacles"???
To me, an unthinkable obstacle is walking out of your house and finding an impenetrable 50-foot-high wall of human entrails with the evil guys from Mad Max on the other side.
/s
Hatch is an amazing dude that's been through a ton and come out the other side. I very seriously doubt life will throw more at him than he can handle...
After losing his family.
that my problems are not very serious. So glad he found a great gal too.
Congratulations to Austin on this well-deserved award.
He is, in the best sense of the Don Brown phrase, a "dude."
Good for him. I can't imagine going through what he has and still persisting with a college basketball career.
On the same note, has anyone else seen the story Dana O'Neil did on him at ESPN a few years ago? I'll link it below, but it's in the long form sort of writing and is absolutely phenomenal.
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/12299896/michiga…