Eric Sowers, The Ohio State University’s 11th Tillman Scholar, was inspired by the scholarship’s namesake and his call to service following 9/11.
Pat Tillman, the NFL-star-turned-Army Ranger, walked away from a lucrative professional football career to join the elite unit following the 2001 terror attack. Sowers was a Columbus high school student at the time, felt the same call to service and enlisted at the earliest opportunity – he wanted to join the Army at 16.