Preparation, teamwork, communication and the ability to adjust quickly and overcome adversity; these are lessons that Kalan Jenkins learned playing football. And now he uses those skills ... in the operating room.
A starting defensive end on Georgia State's inaugural football team in 2010, Jenkins is now a first-year resident in anesthesiology at Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in Temple, Texas, about an hour outside of Austin.
"We are the only level-one trauma center between Austin and Dallas," said Jenkins, a native Texan from Midlothian who joined the GSU program after two seasons at Navarro College in Corsicana, Texas.