After Terry Beckner Jr. sacks a quarterback, he gallops a few steps, winds up and punches the air. His mouth contorts into an oval, and he lets out a shout — an explosion of unencumbered emotion.
He doesn’t look like a kid once too reserved to leave his freshman dorm room.
But the summer of 2015, Missouri volleyball player Alyssa Munlyn noticed Beckner’s absence as she grew close with fellow Tigers freshmen athletes. He never relaxed with her group of friends. She didn’t know anything about him.
One day, Munlyn pulled aside Beckner’s roommate, former MU football player Nate Howard.