Steve Fitzhugh is a former professional American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 player with the Denver Broncos

Denver Broncos

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. He began as a track and field

Track and field

Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

 all-star, becoming one of the top five sprinters

Sprint (race)

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 in the country. Steve attended Walsh Jesuit High School

Walsh Jesuit High School

Walsh Jesuit High School is a private, Jesuit high school in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Founded in 1965, the school was funded by a gift from and named after Cornelius and Jane Walsh. It has been recognized fifty times as a Green Ribbon School of Excellence by the U.S...

 in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

As of the census of 2000, there were 49,374 people, 21,655 households, and 13,317 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,932.9 people per square mile . There were 22,727 housing units at an average density of 889.7 per square mile...

. There he was a highly-touted football player and track star. He was highly recruited and selected Miami University on a full athletic scholarship

Athletic scholarship

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 to play football. There he was the captain of the football and track teams his senior year. Known as an "intimidating hitter", he was recruited by the NFL. He signed with the Denver Broncos in 1986. He was sidelined by a shoulder injury after two short years in the league. He is now an author

Author

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, humorist and motivational speaker spending much of his time as a professional communicator, with teenagers about drugs, alcohol, and right choices. He travels around the nation and abroad as a guest speaker for a variety of venues including but not limited to, schools, colleges professional athletic teams, corporations, and penal institutions. Steve Fitzhugh partnered with Ricky Bolden and Lon Solomon in co-founding The House, DC, three former crack houses transformed into an after school youth center which services the under served population of Anacostia, Southeast Washington, DC. Fitzhugh is also the national spokesperson for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes

Fellowship of Christian Athletes

The Fellowship of Christian Athletes is a non-profit interdenominational Christian organization founded in 1954 and that has been based in Kansas City, Missouri since 1956. It falls within the tradition of Muscular Christianity. Although established by evangelical Protestants, the concept has...

'OneWay2Play-Drug Free' program.

External links

• Steve Fitzhugh on databasefootball.com
• (http://www.stevefitzhugh.com
• (http://www.thehousedc.org