Video: Leonard Fournette donated 700 childhood trophies and recycled them as weights for HS team
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With his eyes to the future and possessing no need to relive his past accomplishments on the football field, former LSU standout running back Leonard Fournette did an amazing thing with his old trophies — he helped turn them into something high schoolers could use every day.
Fournette donated 700 of his old trophies which were used to make an entire set of weights for needy high schoolers from William M. Raines High School in Jacksonville.
“I have plenty of trophies, I’m a champion,” Fournette says in the video below. “I love winning but when you do win the trophy, the big thing you wanted to win, like what’s next?”
In partnership with MET-Rx, check out how the old trophies went from antiques to something future generations of football players could use to transform and motivate them for years to come.
A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Michael Wayne Bratton oversees the news coverage for Saturday Down South. Michael previously worked for FOX Sports and NFL.com
