Charlie Ward had it all. Or, at the very least, the former Florida State star did it all. Days after winning the Heisman Trophy and the school’s first National Championship as the senior quarterback and captain for Bobby Bowden’s Seminoles, Ward was on the hardwood for FSU’s basketball team as the starting point guard averaging 10 points and five assists per game, leading to an eventual NBA career.
Over 20 years later, it’s Ward who another two-sport star looks to as the model of how to pull off one of college athletics’ most difficult feats: star quarterback and star basketball player.