Student athlete makes good on Promise scholarship

Student athletes face their own set of challenges in college - out-of-town games and hours spent in practice, on top of studying and attending class and the 1,001 other tasks of university life. But those with the mettle rise above and succeed anyhow.

Christian Ridings is one such student. A senior from El Dorado, Arkansas, Ridings has majored in Physical Education with a Health minor and plays on the Ozarks soccer team.  His plans for the future?  "I'm looking at the University of Arkansas's Kinesiology Exercise Science program, among others," he said. "I would really like to be a personal trainer."

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