CARROLLTON, Ga. -- On a warm, sunny morning in late June, Alex Armah stepped back on the field on the campus of West Georgia at University Stadium.
Aside from the peaceful whirring of cicadas in the distance and the low hum of a power generator from a nearby building, the moment was absent of sounds or distractions. The campus was business as usual for a college in the middle of summer. Quiet, mostly empty and hot.
However, this moment was a nice bookend for a local kid with a dream who lived just 90 miles away on the other side of Atlanta.