In the summer of 2009, Michael Hall was trying out for Georgia State's start-up football team in a pair of cleats that belonged to his cousin.
The borrowed cleats were a size too big, but he was still able to display the speed that would make him a key defender on the Panthers' first two teams in 2010 and 2011.
A decade later, Hall is using different talents on the frontlines in the fight against COVID-19 as an oral and maxillofacial surgery resident at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C.
"Oral and maxillofacial surgery is a dental specialty that splits the difference between general medicine and dentistry," Hall explained.