There were so many people that wanted to help me, and some people didn’t even know that they were just a positive influence and encouragement in a time when I needed it. I think about all the people that have come across my path from the time I was little girl to where I’m at today. “I started the Catch The Stars Foundation in 2004,” she explains. Every single cell, every single muscle, every single thing about my body, He created and He formed.”Īlso like Nathan, whose stardom helped unite the city of Birmingham, Catchings has embraced her platform and used it to help improve the lives of young people in her adopted home city of Indianapolis. “God has taught me about patience and about accepting myself for who I am and knowing that He formed me and made me unique,” Catchings says. Through it all, she has learned a lot about herself and the importance of having a relationship with Christ. She also suffered through two major injuries, one as a senior at Tennessee, another during her professional career. Catchings dealt with hearing and speech problems and endured her parents’ divorce. Like Nathan, she had to overcome much adversity to get where she is today. Catchings has won a championship with the Indiana Fever, been named WNBA MVP, and collected three Olympic gold medals. Now, she is considered one of the best to play the game. Of course, things changed and there were much greater opportunities for female athletes by the time Catchings was playing basketball for the legendary Pat Summitt at the University of Tennessee. There was no such thing as the WNBA at the time, so she decided she would aim for the NBA where her father Harvey Catchings played during her childhood. In a time when women’s athletics was largely overshadowed and marginalized, a young female athletes named Tamika Catchings set her sights on becoming a future star on the basketball court. He knew that the young running back was divinely gifted and had the ability to become one of Alabama’s first black superstar athletes.
Team chaplain Hank Erwin (Sean Astin) recognized it the first time he saw Nathan step foot on the field. Such was the case with Tony Nathan (Caleb Castille) whose true story is featured in the forthcoming Erwin Brothers film Woodlawn. That athlete becomes a symbol of hope and inspiration for people of all ages.
Sometimes, an athlete emerges from seemingly nowhere to capture the hearts of a local community.
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