CSU FOOTBALL: Fullback Adam Prentice is a key blocker on the field but serves in bigger roles off it.
Fullback also member of school’s Student-Athlete Advisory Council
FORT COLLINS» Adam Prentice doesn’t mind what people don’t know.
He’s gotten used to answering the question, “What does a fullback do?” They probably don’t know he’s a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Council or about his trip to Jamaica with CSU’s Green & Global initiative.
He’s pretty sure what he does as a volunteer — or the connections he’s made through the John W. Mosley Student-Athlete Mentoring program, one run out of Colorado State’s Black/African American Cultural Center — are of little interest to anybody. Or how his idea for carport roof was adopted and built through the internship he does with CSU facilities.
His work off the field in the community is constant, leading to a nomination for the 2018 Allstate AFCA Good Works team.
Prentice does what he does because it means everything to him and the young man he was raised to become.
“It’s important to do these little things. You don’t know how it’s going to affect somebody else, or somebody else can see you be involved in these things, and they’ll be like, I want to do that, too,” Prentice said. “It’s only going to create good and spread that good.
“We all have a lot more to give. I just think if we have that time, then we should give it and use everything in our power. Life is short. You never know when your last day is going to be, so you might as well put everything into everything you do.”
Albert Bimper, CSU’s senior associate athletic director for diver- sity and inclusion, simply calls Prentice “the prototype.” Some go off to college in search of a degree, never knowing the full scope of what a college campus has to offer. Prentice is getting the full experience in Fort Collins, maybe even more.
The Mosley program, as Bimper noted, is normally used on a one-year cycle by students, but Prentice keeps coming back for more.
“I do think he makes the most of the opportunity. He doesn’t try to make excuses about how things can’t fit in,” Bimper said. “The things that matter to him, he makes sure that he gets his hands on and is a part of those opportunities.
“I think he’s thoughtful. It’s not that he’s an overachiever; it’s that he’s thoughtful and strategic to make sure he gets it all in. He’s one of the kids when you lay it all out and he lists the things he’s done or is a part of, what strikes me as interesting is the way they all connect. Everything that he is a part of, he’s a part of it for a reason, for the career and experiences he wants to have. It’s not just resume building, it’s the type of experience that prepares him.”
Much of what he does is going to help set him up for life after his time in Fort Collins is finished. That doesn’t go for the work he does away from campus, for other people in the community, that he makes no effort to draw credit.