There isn’t much Courtney Hawkins hadn’t accomplished on the football field.
He was an All-Big Ten wide receiver at Michigan State, won a Big Ten championship under coach George Perles and his name still dots the program’s record books. After a nine-year career in the NFL, Hawkins returned to his hometown of Flint and led his alma mater, Beecher High, as its football coach and athletic director for 14 years.
There was plenty of success there, too, as the Buccaneers reached the state playoffs 12 times and, in 2018, Hawkins was named the Athletic Director of the Year.