Darrell Green
Washington Redskin and Founder of the Darrell Green Youth Life Foundation
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Darrell Green can lay claim to many titles that no athlete would mind having on a resume: record-setting Washington Redskin, the world's fastest athlete, three-time Super Bowl player. But he's proudest of his achievements off the football field, in particular the creation of the Darrell Green Youth Life Foundation (DGYLF), which he founded in 1988.

Its centerpiece is the Darrell Green Learning Center (DGLC) in Washington, D.C., a city Green has called home for many years. The center offers tutoring, job counseling, and computer training to at-risk children, as well as chances to participate in field trips and win awards for high academic achievement.

"Through our Youth Life Learning Center, we are reaching young people whose lives are falling apart because they don't have family structure or proper adult role models," Green writes in a letter to supporters. "These boys and girls don't need charity, they need opportunities." Green, who says being a good father and husband is "his best accomplishment," speaks from personal experience. His parents divorced, and he credits other role models and mentors with helping him "build an inner moral strength to see me through my life as a professional athlete, husband, father, church member and neighbor."

The Houston, Texas, native finished college 15 years after interrupting his education at Texas A&I University to become the Redskins' top draft choice in 1983. On May 10, 1998, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in General Studies/Social Sciences from Saint Paul's College in Lawrenceville, Virginia. A year later, Marymount University conferred upon him the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters for his many humanitarian and charitable activities.

Related Links:
The Darrell Green Youth Life Foundation
Darrell Green Enterprises