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ASU Recognizes High Achieving Plant City Academic Student
Golf Tournament, Celebrity Auction To Support Scholarship Fund
The Celebrity Auction is on Friday, May 5, 2017, 6 p. m. and the golf tournament is Saturday, May 6th with registra- tion at 7 a. m.
LAKELAND – He based his NFL career on taking things away.
Now, he’s giving back.
Only four other players in NFL history have more inter- ceptions than Ken “The Rattler” Riley, whose 15- year NFL career with the Cincinnati Bengals actually started in Bartow at Union Academy. From 1969 to 1983, Riley played for the Bengals while recording 65 interceptions – including eight interceptions his final season at 36-years-old – as well as 18 fumble recoveries and five touchdowns.
Today, the Bartow resi- dent is focused on helping fi- nancially challenged students who are pursuing an ad- vanced education – whether college or vocational school – reach their goals.
“All of us aren’t gifted hit- ting the books,” said Riley, who was a Rhodes Scholar candidate. “Some are gifted with their hands, or a skill.
KEN RILEY ...To host scholarship fundraiser
And those are worthy pur- suits, too.”
To help worthy students, the Ken Riley Foundation is teaming up with the Eastside Positive Action Committee and the Union Academy Alumni Association, Inc., for a fundraising weekend.
Starting on Friday, May 5 with a celebrity auction, the event will wrap up the next day after the group hits the fairways at Cleveland Heights Golf Course for best ball golf scramble.
Joining Riley will be the only two-time Heisman Tro- phy winner, fellow former Bengal, Archie Griffin.
Also attending will be former Buffalo Bill and Los Angeles Ram quarterback, James Harris, Detroit Tigers leg- end, Willie Horton, and Ray “Sugar Bear” Hamil- ton, whose eight-year NFL career was spent with the New England Patriots.
Other former NFL players expected to participate are Parnell Dickinson, Glen Edwards, Isaac Curtis, Larry Little, Paul Krause, James Jones and Barry Smith, though oth- ers may join as well.
“We expect the tourna- ment to grow and grow,” said Riley. “And the cause will draw out more celebrities as well.”
`After he retired from the NFL, Riley went to the Green Bay Packers as a coach for two years before becom- ing the head coach at Florida A&M University. There, from 1986 to 1993, his Rattlers compiled a 48-39-2 record. He served as Florida A&M’s athletic director from 1994 to 2003. He was inducted into the Polk County Sports Hall of Fame in 2000.
For more information about the tournament, visit kr13.org.
SHAYLA LASHAWN KELLY
Alabama State University (ASU) announces that a high- achieving academic student from the Bay Area was recog- nized during ASU’s 2017 Honors Convocation.
The program recognizes regularly admitted under- graduate students who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in their aca- demic pursuits. In general, students must have com- pleted at least 15 semester hours of core courses at ASU with a cumulative grade point
average of 3.0 or better to qualify for recognition.
Shayla LaShawn Kelly, a sophomore major- ing in Biology (pre-health) at Alabama State University, graduated from Durant High School in 2015. The Plant City, Fla., native is an active member of the Bio-Med Club and the Levi Watkins Library Club. Kelly’s hometown church is St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church. She is the daughter of the late Shirley A. Kelly.
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