Being An Elite Athlete Saved Donald Winston From Poverty

There’s something to be said for a high school athlete mixing hard work with elite athleticism.

Donald Winston is a former Purdue football player who “figured out at a very early age that his athletic ability could be his escape from a life that began in urban poverty with threats of violence, drug addiction, gang war, and other crime waiting under every street light.”

Winston was wise enough to escape a life of poverty in housing projects in Haughville by gaining a scholarship to Scecina high school and then Purdue for college.

After college, Winston married his high school sweetheart, Laura Winston, and became vice president of an international company located in Indiana.

Today Winston is…